Alabama Social Studies SS24.CWI.9b

Social StudiesGrades 9–12World Events and Issues

The Standard

SS24.CWI.9: Evaluate the impact of economic globalization on worldwide trends and on individual nations and regions.

Describe the costs and benefits of trade among nations in an interdependent world.

2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · World Events and Issues

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain why countries buy and sell goods across borders. They identify gains such as lower prices and more customers, and costs such as job losses or supply shortages.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given a trade example, students identify who benefits and who bears a cost. They explain how cheaper imports might help shoppers while reducing sales for a local factory.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think every import destroys a local job or every export helps everyone at home. They may overlook costs such as shipping pollution or dependence on a distant supplier.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: A country imports cheaper steel, but a local steel mill closes. Name one benefit, one cost, and who experiences each.

Lesson moves

Give tables wheat and phone cards to trade, then stop one supplier and have groups record their gains and shortages.
Ask: A shoe factory closes as imported shoes get cheaper. Who gains, who loses, and what else would you need to know?
Put lower prices, factory layoffs, export sales, and shipping emissions on cards; have pairs sort them by who gains or pays.
Have students check origin labels on three classroom items, map one item's likely route, and name a benefit and a supply risk.

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