Alabama Social Studies SS24.1.6

SS24.1.6 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.1.6a

  Explain how products are distributed from producers to sellers to consumers.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how a farmer grows food and how a factory turns raw materials, such as apples, into a product. They trace the product from its maker to a store and then to a buyer.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given picture cards, a student puts the farmer, apples, applesauce factory, truck, store, and shopper in order. They can say who grew the apples, made the applesauce, sold it, and bought it.

03

Common Misconceptions

Some children think stores make the food they sell or that trucks make products because they bring them to stores. Others think applesauce grows on trees instead of being made from apples.

04

How to Assess It

Give students pictures of a farmer, apples, an applesauce factory, a truck, a store, and a shopper. Ask them to number the pictures in order and circle who sells the applesauce.

1. 01

   Move paper apples from a farmer card to a factory card; swap them for an applesauce jar picture, then move it through truck, store, and shopper cards.

2. 02

   Ask partners, 'Who grew the apples, who made the applesauce, and who sold it?'

3. 03

   Mix farmer, apple, factory, truck, store, and shopper picture cards; have pairs race to order them and explain each step.

4. 04

   Show an applesauce jar and a grocery flyer; ask who grew the apples, who made the sauce, and who sells it.

• SS24.5.1

  Explain how industry and agriculture expanded during the early twentieth century.

• SS24.E.1b

  Explain how land (natural resource), labor (human resource), capital (physical or human resource), and entrepreneurship function as factors of production.

• SS24.2.4

  Explain the economic processes of production and distribution, including the roles of producers, consumers, goods, and services.