Alabama Social Studies SS24.E.10c
The Standard
- SS24.E.10
- Analyze the factors that determine and shape a country’s standard of living.
Research and share information on how Alabama and the United States relate to the global economy in terms of current technological innovations and technology-based industries.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students research a technology-based operation in Alabama and a U.S. technology industry using recent sources. They show how an innovation connects local work to overseas suppliers, production, or buyers, then share what they found.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how A321neo assembly in Mobile depends on parts from other countries. They can trace a U.S.-designed chip to overseas fabrication and use sources to explain a job or trade effect.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume a jet assembled in Mobile has only U.S.-made parts. They may treat chip design and chip manufacturing as the same job. They may name a new product without explaining its cross-border economic link.
How to Assess It
- Give students an Airbus Mobile fact sheet and a chip supply chain article. Ask them to name one innovation in each, trace a cross-border link, and explain a job or trade effect using a cited line.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups Airbus Mobile supplier notes and a blank world map; use yarn to connect Mobile with two countries named in the notes.
Ask: How do Mobile's A321neo assembly and U.S.-designed chips rely on workers in other countries, and who gains from each link?
Play a four-corner sort with eight Airbus and chip cards; students place each under design, parts, assembly, or sale and defend one choice.
Look up who designed and fabricated the iPhone 16's A18 chip, mark both countries on a map, and explain the trade link.
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