---
title: "SS5E3: Consumer-Producer Interaction (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SS5E3
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SS5E3
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - grade-5
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# SS5E3: Consumer-Producer Interaction

Describe how consumers and producers interact in the U. S. economy.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: Grade 5, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/grade-5.md

## Expectations

- **SS5E3.a**: Describe how competition, markets, and prices influence consumer behavior.
- **SS5E3.b**: Describe how people earn income by selling their labor to businesses.
- **SS5E3.c**: Describe how entrepreneurs take risks to develop new goods and services to start a business.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.