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Basic Economic Concepts

4th Grade

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): SS4E1.a

Describe opportunity cost and its relationship to decision-making across time (e.g., decisions to settle in the west).

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): SS4E1.b

Explain how price incentives affect people’s behavior and choices: decisions about what crops (e.g., cotton, and tobacco) to grow and products (e.g., textiles) to produce.

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): SS4E1.c

Describe how specialization improves standards of living (e.g., differences in the economies in the North and South).

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): SS4E1.d

Explain how voluntary exchange helps both buyers and sellers (e.g., Gold Rush mining towns).

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): SS4E1.e

Describe how trade promotes economic activity (e.g., trade between the U.S. and Europe).

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): SS4E1.f

Give examples of technological advancements and their impact on business productivity during the development of the United States (e.g., cotton gin, steamboat, steam locomotive, and telegraph).

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