Lesson 13: Big Business and the Government

Introduction

 For our last instructional lesson of this unit, we will take a look at goods, services, and taxes. 

Focus Questions:

How does the government provide services to its citizens?

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Goods and Services

Businesses are able to pay people to make the goods and/or services they provide by selling their goods or services to consumers and using that money to pay their workers.

Some jobs like teachers, military, and even the president are all jobs paid for with taxes by the government.

  In your journal:  Print the notes page and complete it as you go through the slides. If you do not have access to a printer, another option is to draw/write your notes page in your social studies journal.

Goods and Services Notes Download Goods and Services Notes

View the slideshow below to learn more about goods, services, and taxes and how they all work together in the economy of the United States.

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Assignment

Reflect on what you learned in this lesson.

Consider the question: How would the United States economy be different if the government did not collect taxes?

 

Go to the next page to complete the Big Business and Government Flip assignment

 

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