Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.21b
The Standard
- SS24.AS.21
- Explain the interrelationship among geography, natural resources, and the development of Alabama’s economy from the early nineteenth century into the early twentieth century.
Evaluate the extent to which agriculture and natural resources remain a significant component of Alabama’s modern economy.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Economics
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use recent Alabama data to judge how much farming and natural resources contribute to jobs and economic output. They compare those figures with other industries and consider where the effects are strongest.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can compare industry figures using the same measure and year. They can explain why poultry and timber may matter greatly in some counties even when other industries provide more jobs statewide.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may count poultry processing and sawmill jobs as farming or logging jobs, though those jobs are classified as manufacturing. They may assume that because farms and forests cover a lot of land, they employ most Alabamians.
How to Assess It
- Give students a current Alabama employment table for agriculture, forestry, mining, manufacturing, and health care. Ask: "How significant are farming and natural resources today? Compare two job figures and name one thing job counts miss."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed Alabama industry job totals; have them build paper-strip bar graphs for agriculture, forestry, mining, manufacturing, and health care.
Use state and county job tables to ask: "Can timber matter locally while forestry employs relatively few people statewide?"
Hand out cards labeled poultry farm, logging crew, chicken plant, sawmill, and auto plant; students sort them by industry.
Trace a board from an Alabama logging crew through a sawmill to a hardware store; label the industry at each step.
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