Standards

SS6H4 Analyze the impact of English colonization on current Aboriginal basic rights, health, literacy, and language.

SS6G11 Find specific features of Australia.

1. Find on a map: the Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, Uluru/Ayers Rock, Indian and Pacific Oceans, Great Dividing Range, and Great Victoria Desert

SS6G12 Describe the impact of location, climate, and distribution of natural resources, and population distribution on Australia.

1. Understand how Australia’s location, climate, and natural resources impact trade and affect where people choose to live.

SS6CG4 Describe types of citizen participation in government.

1. Understand citizen participation in democratic governments, including the role of citizens in choosing the leaders of Australia (parliamentary democracy).

SS6E10 Critique different economic systems.

1. Compare how traditional, command, and market economies answer the economic questions of what, how, and for whom to produce.
2. Understand that countries have a mixed economic system located on a continuum between pure market and pure command.
3. Explain the economic system used in Australia.

SS6E11 Name examples of how voluntary trade benefits buyers and sellers in Australia.

1. Describe how specialization makes trade possible between countries.
2. Compare and contrast trade barriers such as tariffs, quotas, and embargoes.
3. Relate why international trade requires a system for exchanging currency between nations.

SS6E12 Identify factors that influence economic growth and assess their presence or absence in Australia.

1. Describe how literacy rates affect the standard of living
2. Describe the relationship between investment in human capital (education and training) and gross domestic product (GDP per capita).
3. Examine the relationship between investment in capital goods (factories, machinery, and technology) and gross domestic product (GDP per capita).
4. Understand the role of natural resources in a country’s economy.
5. Explain the role of entrepreneurship.

SS6E13 Explain why living within one’s income is essential to effective personal money management.

1. Explain how income is produced and limited by the work one does.
2. Explain how a budget helps one plan the spending and saving of income.
3. Explain why saving is essential and beneficial.
4. Explain how credit can be useful and explain the costs of credit.