Colorado
8th Grade
State Standards
Look below to see how Banzai's courses, worksheets, activities, and games align with the Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy for 8th Grade. Use the filters to change the location, set of standards, and grade level. Note, any one activity listed will satisfy the associated competency.
Personal Financial Literacy
8: Apply economic reasoning skills to make informed personal financial decisions.
FL.8.5.1: Examine the role of consumer decisions and taxes within the market economies of early American history.
Students Can
Standard
Defined by Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities listed will satisfy the standard
a: Calculate how the value of money has changed over time impacting earning, spending, borrowing, and investing. For example: Inflation and recession.
b: Explain factors that have impacted borrowing and investing over time. For example: Currency stability, stocks, and banking practices.
c: Analyze the changes in the development of human capital over time. For example: Gaining knowledge and skill through education, apprenticeship, entrepreneurship, and work experience.
d: Analyze the impact of taxes on the people of the United States over time.
Colorado Essential Skills
Standard
Defined by Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities listed will satisfy the standard
1: Investigate to form hypotheses, make observations, and draw conclusions (Critical Thinking and Analysis).
2: Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis (Critical Thinking and Analysis).
Inquiry Questions
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Defined by Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities listed will satisfy the standard
1: What role did taxes play in the birth of our nation?
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2: What would countries look like without taxes?
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3: How has the value of money changed over time and what is the impact on consumerism?
4: How did inventions impact personal financial options?
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Nature and Skills of Personal Financial Literacy
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Defined by Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities listed will satisfy the standard
1: Financially capable individuals apply the economic way of thinking which assumes that people make choices because they are responding to the underlying incentives.
2: Financially capable individuals study factors that lead to increased economic interdependence, increased productivity, and improved standard of living for the individuals in a society.
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3: Financially capable individuals understand that there is an economic role for government in a market economy whenever the benefits of a government policy outweigh its costs.
Disciplinary, Information, and Media Literacy
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Defined by Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities listed will satisfy the standard
1: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of the text.
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2: Explain how a question represents key ideas in the field.
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3: Explain points of agreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a compelling question.
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4: Analyze and use information presented visually in a text. For example: Graphs, charts, flowcharts, diagrams, models, tables, that support the words in a text.