Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.25
The Standard
Explain the role of Alabama in the global economy based on its major imports and exports.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify goods Alabama businesses buy from other countries and goods they sell abroad. They use examples, such as imported car parts and exported vehicles, to explain how trade affects Alabama factories and jobs.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can label an import and an export in a trade example and trace each across a national border. They can explain how imported parts support production and how overseas buyers support Alabama jobs.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call goods arriving from another U.S. state imports. They may assume an Alabama-made car contains only U.S.-made parts, or that Alabama exports only raw materials.
How to Assess It
- Give this exit ticket: An Alabama plant buys parts from Mexico and sells finished cars to Canada. Name the import and export, then explain one effect on Alabama jobs.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a map and cards showing car parts from Mexico and Alabama-built cars going to Canada; have them draw and label the routes.
Ask students to predict in two sentences what happens at an Alabama car plant if imported parts stop arriving for a month.
Read trade examples aloud while students hold up Import or Export cards and name the country border each product crosses.
Use an Alabama Department of Commerce export report to find one product shipped abroad and name an Alabama job tied to it.
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