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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 5

Economics, Rights and Civic Action

Fifth graders connect money, rights and action: how Britain's trade rules and colonial boycotts used economic pressure, how incentives and costs shape choices, how governments pay for public goods with taxes, how rights expanded through amendments won by citizens' movements from the 13th to the 26th Amendment, and how people today can use the same civic tools to work for change.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 minutes
  • Economics, rights and action check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Explain how colonial trade rules and boycotts used economic pressure, and how governments pay for public goods and services.
  • Identify positive and negative incentives and weigh benefits and costs in individual and public choices.
  • Explain how rights expanded after the founding through amendments and citizens' movements.
  • Identify methods of civic action used in history and today, and plan a responsible civic action.

Lessons

  1. Trade, taxes and boycotts 5 steps2 practiceabout 26 min
  2. Incentives and choices 4 steps3 practiceabout 24 min
  3. Expanding rights 4 steps3 practiceabout 28 min
  4. Tools for civic action 4 steps2 practiceabout 27 min
  5. Economics, rights and action check 9 questions at the end

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