Standards

=Standards=

This Webquest is aimed at teaching students not only about Michigan economics but also about budgeting. Budgeting could help students in the future when they are faced with managing their own money. Teaching about the economy through this webquest will meet the following Michigan Standards for Social Studies.

All students will identify the purposes of national, state, and local governments in the United States, describe how citizens organize government to accomplish their purposes and assess their effectiveness.
 * Standard III.I Purposes of Government**

All students will describe the political and legal processes created to make decisions, seek consensus, and resolve conflicts in a free society.
 * Standard III.3 Democracy in Action**

All students will explain how American governmental institutions at the local, state, and federal levels provide for the limitation and sharing of power and how the nation’s political system provides for the exercise of power.
 * Standard III.4 American Government and Politics**

All students will describe how government decisions on taxation, spending, public goods, and regulation impact what is produced, how it is produced, and who receives the benefits of production.
 * Standard IV.3 Role of Government**

All students will explain how a free market economic system works, as well as other economic systems, to coordinate and facilitate the exchange, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
 * Standard IV.4 Economic systems**

All students will acquire information from books, maps, newspapers, data sets, and other sources, organize and present the information in maps, graphs, charts, and time lines, interpret the meaning and significance of information, and use a variety of electronic technologies to assist in accessing and managing information.
 * Standard V.I Information Processing**

All students will conduct investigations by formulating a clear statement of a question, gathering and organizing information from a variety of sources, analyzing and interpreting information, formulating and testing hypotheses, reporting results both orally and in writing, and making use of appropriate technology.
 * Standard V.2 Conducting Investigations**

All students will state an issue clearly as a question of public policy, trace the origins of the issue, analyze various perspectives people bring to the issue, and evaluate possible ways to resolve the issue.
 * Standard VI.I Identifying and Analyzing Issues**

All students will engage their peers in constructive conversation about matters of public concern by clarifying issues, considering opposing views, applying democratic values, anticipating consequences, and working toward making decisions.
 * Standard VI.2 Group Discussion**