Alabama Social Studies SS24.E.7b
The Standard
- SS24.E.7
- Analyze the role of government in a market economy.
Assess how government regulation and deregulation affect consumers and producers.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how adding or removing a rule can change a business's costs and a customer's choices, prices, or safety. They weigh benefits and drawbacks for both groups.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can predict who might gain or lose when a city adds restaurant inspections. They can explain why removing inspections could lower costs for owners but increase risks for diners.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume every rule raises prices or that removing a rule always helps customers. They may count a business's cost without considering what customers get from the rule.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A city stops requiring annual food truck inspections. Name one possible effect on owners and one on customers, then explain which group faces a new risk.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups ten tokens as a cafe budget, take two for inspections, and have them list costs and possible benefits for owners and diners.
Ask: Should the city stop inspecting food trucks? Write two sentences weighing lower owner costs against customer safety.
Match four rule cards to customer and business effects, then have pairs explain one match they disagree about.
Bring two cereal boxes with nutrition labels; ask what shoppers learn and what printing and checking labels may cost makers.
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- SS24.E.7
Analyze the role of government in a market economy.
- SS24.E.7a
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