Alabama Social Studies SS24.E.6b
The Standard
- SS24.E.6
- Analyze data to describe the shifting demographics of the labor force of the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including age, education, gender, race, regional specialization, and socioeconomic background.
Explain how the supply and demand of labor influence wage and non-wage benefits and affect economic growth.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students predict how pay and benefits change when employers need more workers or the number of available workers changes. They explain how hiring and worker shortages affect production and economic growth.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given more construction jobs but few trained electricians, a student predicts higher pay and stronger benefit offers. They explain how unfilled jobs can delay projects and limit output.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think more available workers automatically raise wages, confusing labor supply with employer demand. They may assume wages and benefits always move together. Some treat higher wages as proof of faster growth, even when jobs remain unfilled.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A factory needs 40 machinists, but only 20 are available. Predict its wage and paid leave offers, then explain how unfilled jobs affect output.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs eight worker cards and twelve vacancy cards; set wage and paid leave offers, then add eight worker cards and revise the offers.
Ask: Two factories open, but no new welders arrive. How might pay, benefits, and unfilled jobs affect the town's output?
Sort six cards, including factory expansion and worker retirements, into labor supply or demand changes; predict what happens to wage offers.
Print two local job ads with listed pay and benefits. Students compare offers and name one hiring pressure that could change them.
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