Maine
9th-12th Grade
State Standards
Look below to see how Banzai's courses, worksheets, activities, and games align with the Social Studies for 9th-12th Grade. Note, any one activity listed will satisfy the associated competency.
Students draw from concepts and processes in personal finance to understand issues of money management, saving, investing, credit, and debt; students draw from concepts and processes in economics to understand issues of production, distribution, consumption in the community, Maine, the United States, and the world.
Personal Finance: Students understand the principles and process of personal finance by:
Standard
Defined by Social Studies
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities below will satisfy the competency
F1: Explaining how personal finance involves the use of economics as the basis for saving, investing and managing money.
F2: Identifying factors that impact consumer credit.
D1: Evaluating ways credit can be used.
D2: Evaluating different strategies for money and risk management.
Economics: Students understand the principles and processes of personal economics, the role of markets, the economic system of the United States, other economic systems in the world, and how economics serves to inform decisions in the present and future by:
Standard
Defined by Social Studies
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities below will satisfy the competency
F1: Analyzing the role of financial institutions, the financial markets, and government including fiscal, monetary, and trade policies.
F2: Identifying and explaining various economic indicators and how they represent and influence economic activity.
D1: Analyzing economic activities and policies in relationship to freedom, efficiency, equity, security, growth, and sustainability.
Under Development
D2: Explaining and applying the concepts of specialization, economic interdependence, and comparative advantage.
Under Development
D3: Proposing a solution to a problem using the theory of supply and demand. *
Under Development
Global Connections: Students understand economic aspects of unity and diversity in Maine, the United States, and the world, including Maine Native American communities, by:
Standard
Defined by Social Studies
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities below will satisfy the competency
F1: Comparing a variety of economic systems and strategies of economic development.
Under Development
F2: Analyzing how resource distribution effects wealth, poverty, and other economic factors.
Under Development
D1: Analyzing multiple views on how resource distribution has affected wealth, poverty, and other economics factors and present an argument as to the role of regional, international, and global organizations that are engaged in economic development. *
Under Development