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IN.2.The Local and Regional Community
The Local and Regional Community
2.1. History: Students differentiate between events that happened in the past and recently, recognize examples of continuity and change in local and regional communities, and consider ways that people and events of the past and present influence their lives.
Historical Knowledge
2.1.4. Identify and describe community celebrations, symbols and traditions and explain why they are important.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideWorld Holidays
2.2. Civics and Government: Students explain why communities have government and laws, demonstrate that people in the United States have both rights and responsibilities, and identify individual actions that contribute to the good of the community and nation.
Roles of Citizens
2.2.4. Describe how people of different ages, cultural backgrounds and traditions contribute to the community and how all citizens can respect these differences.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideU.S. Government
2.3. Geography: Students locate their community, state and nation on maps and globes; identify major geographic characteristics of their local community; explore geographic relationships between the physical and environmental characteristics of their community
The World in Spatial Terms
2.3.2. Locate the equator and the poles on a globe and identify the local community, state and the United States on maps.
2.4. Economics: Students describe how people in a community use productive resources, create a variety of businesses and industries, specialize in different types of jobs, and depend on each other to supply goods and services.
2.4.2. Identify productive resources used to produce goods and services in the community.
2.4.2.1. Productive Resources: human resources, natural resources, and capital resources used to produce goods and services.
2.4.6. Define opportunity cost and explain that because resources are limited in relation to people’s wants (scarcity), people must make choices as to how to use resources.
2.4.6.1. Opportunity costs: term used in economics, to mean the value of the best alternative that would have been chosen instead. For example, a city is deciding between building a hospital or a parking garage on some vacant land. If they choose the hospital, the