Alabama Social Studies SS24.CWI.6a
The Standard
- SS24.CWI.6
- Evaluate the extent to which nations have successfully collaborated to achieve broad international goals, citing specific instances.
Describe the functions of modern-day alliance systems, regional organizations, and multinational corporations and cartels.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · International Relations
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why countries promise to help defend one another or work together on regional problems. They also explain why companies operate in several countries and how producers can coordinate supply to affect prices.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can identify NATO's defense role, the EU's regional cooperation, Toyota's work across borders, and OPEC's oil production decisions. They can explain how each makes different kinds of decisions.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the EU is a single country or that NATO sets trade rules. They may call any large company a cartel or assume OPEC owns all the oil its members produce.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, have students match NATO, the EU, Toyota, and OPEC to defense, regional cooperation, cross-border business, and oil supply coordination. Ask them to explain one match.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs four name cards and four purpose cards; have them match NATO, the EU, Toyota, and OPEC to their main functions.
Ask students to write two sentences: How might NATO respond to an attack on a member, and how might OPEC respond to falling oil prices?
Label four corners NATO, EU, Toyota, and OPEC; read scenarios about defense, trade rules, overseas factories, and oil quotas for students to match.
Print a Toyota factory map; have students mark Japan and two other production countries, then explain why the company might build cars abroad.
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