Suburbs

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

6

Overview

In this learning activity, students will research economic and social changes and expansion in the United States after World War II. Students will identify programs that had an economic impact on society such as the G.I. Bill of Rights, suburbanization, and immigration. Click on the Download PDF or DOC button for additional resources including charts, graphs, photographs, and maps.

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 6

SS10.6.10

Analyze changing economic priorities and cycles of economic expansion and contraction for their impact on society since World War II.

UP:SS10.6.10

Vocabulary

  • economic expansion
  • economic contraction
  • service economy
  • "boom and bust"
  • economic bubbles
  • GI Bill of Rights of 1944
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Head Start programs
  • Children's Health Insurance Program
  • manufacturing
  • standard of living
  • globalization
  • outsourcing
  • insourcing
  • environmental protection
  • immigration

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The cycles of economic expansion and contraction and the impact these cycles had on American society after WWII.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Analyze and explain policies and programs that economically impacted society since World War II.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are cycles of economic expansion and contraction and this has had an impact on American society after WWII.

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

Other

License Type

CUSTOM

Resource Provider other

College Career & Civic Life (C3)
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