Lesson 6: 2.4- Government and Economy of the US and Canada Guided Notes
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to describe the political systems of the United States and Canada.
Students will be able to describe the economic systems of the United States and Canada.
Students will be able to analyze the roots of the region’s economic strengths and vulnerabilities.
Students will be able to explain the influence of the United States and Canada globally.
How have the United States and Canada become influential politically and economically?
suffrage, free enterprise economy, democracy, constitution, parliamentary democracy government, Kaskaskia, constitutional monarchy, bicameral
CIV 6-7.2 - Assess specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed) as means of addressing public problems.
ECO 6-7.1 - Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.
ECO 6-7.4 - Analyze the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in a market economy.
Implementing instructional content for learning. DOK 2 Conceptual Thinking.
The Reading Passages—The Commonwealth of Nations, Market Economy, and Public Transportation—contain constructed response questions that provide students opportunities to write short evidence-based responses to a text.
The Social Studies Explanation asks students to collect evidence from varied sources to support an answer to the concept’s Essential Question. The activity provides the foundation and scaffolding for a more complex written answer.
In the Brief-Constructed Response students describe how two primary source photographs illustrate the role of natural resources in the economies of the United States and Canada.
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