Alabama Social Studies SS24.E.5c
The Standard
- SS24.E.5
- Compare and contrast types of business firms, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations.
Research and present information on the role and impact of economic institutions on state and national economies, including labor unions and nonprofit organizations.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students research how labor unions and nonprofits work. They present evidence of how each affects workers, services, or spending in Alabama and across the country.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student explains that unions negotiate for workers while nonprofits use resources to carry out a mission. Their presentation uses Alabama and national evidence, cites sources, and explains specific economic effects.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think unions are government offices or that nonprofits have no paid staff. They may report how many people an organization serves without explaining its effect on jobs, wages, or spending.
How to Assess It
- Give students a national BLS union wage table and an excerpt from a United Way of Central Alabama annual report. Ask for one evidence-based sentence about the economic role of each institution.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups wage and benefit cards, then have workers negotiate with a mock employer and record how the agreement changes pay.
Using a UAW contract summary and a United Way annual report, ask: How might higher pay and community grants affect spending differently?
Sort eight cards showing contract raises, grants, and payroll into union, nonprofit, or both; explain two choices.
Read a local food bank's annual report and explain how its food distribution could change a family's grocery spending.
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