Alabama Social Studies SS24.2.4

SS24.2.4 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.2.4a

  Identify examples of imported and exported goods, including those produced within Alabama.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify who makes a product and who buys it. They explain how it gets from maker to buyer and tell a good from a service. They identify goods brought into the country and goods sent out, including cars made in Alabama.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students label a car maker as a producer, a buyer as a consumer, a car as a good, and car repairs as a service. They identify building the car as production and delivering it as distribution. They call an Alabama car shipped to Canada an export and bananas shipped from Ecuador an import.

03

Common Misconceptions

Some students call the store a car's producer because it sells the car. Others call a haircut a good because it costs money. Students may mix up imports and exports when an Alabama-made car leaves the country.

04

How to Assess It

Give students this exit ticket: An Alabama worker builds a car, a truck takes it to a buyer in Canada, and a mechanic repairs it. Ask students to label the producer, consumer, good, service, production, distribution, and export, then label bananas arriving from Ecuador as an import.

1. 01

   Give pairs blocks, toy trucks, and store signs; have them build cars, deliver them, and buy them with paper coins.

2. 02

   Ask partners to explain why a haircut is a service but a toy car is a good.

3. 03

   Play import or export sorting with cards showing Alabama cars shipped to Canada and Ecuador bananas shipped to Alabama.

4. 04

   Put a 'Grown in Ecuador' label on a banana, then have students trace its trip to an Alabama grocery store on a map.

• SS24.1.6

  Explain how farmers produce food and manufacturers turn raw materials into products.

• SS24.E.3b

  Research and share information illustrating how different economic systems answer the basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom ...

• SS24.E.11

  Explain why individuals, businesses, and nations engage in trading goods and services in the global economy.

• SS24.1.6a

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