Capitalism, Socialism & Communism – Compare Activity
- Grades
- Grades 7–8, High School
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- Social Studies, Economics
- Topic
- Capitalism, Socialism
- Resource types
- Activities
- Answer key
- Included
Product description
From the author
Discover an engaging and immersive Comparing Capitalism, Socialism & Communism Activity designed for educators looking to deepen their students' understanding of different economic systems in various historical contexts, such as the Cold War and Industrial Revolution Units. This versatile digital resource offers both traditional and Google formats, ensuring a seamless fit with diverse teaching styles.
The activity package incorporates:
1) Warm-up Activity (Infographic Chart): Students explore key distinctions between each economic system and summarize their comprehension.
2) Video Activity: A 15-minute informative public access video paired with a supportive worksheet.
3) Source Selections: 16 source selections from well-known authors, accompanied by stimulating questions that encourage critical thinking in pairs or individual settings.
4) Comparing Perspectives: Student pairs delve into assigned viewpoints through structured graphic organizers based on the source selections.
5) Exit Card: Creative cartoon completion exercise for summarizing lesson insights.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Students will compare capitalism, socialism, and communism across business ownership, pricing, employment, and consumer choice.
Students will identify which economic system a source selection describes and justify their answer using textual evidence.
Students will argue, from an assigned viewpoint, how a given economic system affects specific individuals or groups such as business owners and laborers.
Teaching tips
Use the teacher directions, which suggest using all activities together or mixing and matching individual pieces (chart, video, excerpts, perspectives, cartoon).
Assign the Socialism or Capitalism 'Comparing Perspectives' page to different small groups so the class can compare both viewpoints during share-out.
If assigning the Google Slides version in Google Classroom, use 'Make a copy for each student' per the file's own reminder, or all students will edit the same shared copy.
Skills covered
Source analysis — reading 16 selections from historical writings, an interview and explanatory articles and identifying the economic system each describes.
Perspective-taking and synthesis — explaining how an economic system affects specific roles (business owner, laborer) from an assigned viewpoint.
Comparative reasoning — completing a structured chart comparing ownership, pricing, employment, and goods availability across three systems.
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Which kinds of sources are included?
The A–P selections include Marx and Engels, Adam Smith, Albert Einstein, an interview and later explanatory articles. They combine primary and secondary sources.
What does the 'Comparing Perspectives' activity ask students to do?
Working from an assigned viewpoint (e.g., arguing as a Socialist about Capitalism, or as a Capitalist about Socialism), students explain how the system affects specific individuals or groups, such as the business owner and the laborer, citing evidence from the excerpts.
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Capitalism
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Cold War
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