Alabama Social Studies SS24.CWI.10

SS24.CWI.10 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.CWI.10a

  Evaluate the positive and negative impacts of scientific and technological changes on society and on the environment.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how a technology changes trade and connects people across countries. They identify benefits and costs for workers, consumers, and the environment.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can explain how container shipping lowers transport costs and helps companies sell goods worldwide. They can also describe a cost, such as fuel emissions or pressure on local producers.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may assume a product is made entirely in the country where it is sold. They may notice cheaper goods but miss mining waste, energy use, or job losses.

04

How to Assess It

Ask: How has container shipping changed trade between countries? Name one benefit for people and one environmental cost, and explain how each happens.

1. 01

   Give pairs a map and cards labeled Chilean lithium, Taiwanese chips, Chinese assembly, and Alabama sales; have them draw a smartphone's route.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: How can shipping containers lower prices while increasing pollution or putting local jobs at risk?

3. 03

   Deal cards labeled cheaper imports, factory layoffs, remote doctor visits, and e-waste; teams sort them into benefits or costs and explain each choice.

4. 04

   Have students check country-of-origin labels on two grocery items and explain how refrigerated transport makes those imports possible and adds fuel emissions.

• SS24.HG.14

  Explain how economic interdependence and globalization impact countries and their populations.

• SS24.CWI.9

  Evaluate the impact of economic globalization on worldwide trends and on individual nations and regions.

• SS24.WH.18c

  Explain problems and opportunities involving science, technology, and worldwide communication, including the Internet, in the late twentieth and early twenty-fi...