Alabama Social Studies SS24.HG.14a
The Standard
- SS24.HG.14
- Explain how economic interdependence and globalization impact countries and their populations.
Trace the flow of commodities among regions of the world, explaining why patterns develop and identifying factors that might interrupt the transfer of goods.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Environment and the Economy
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students map where a product is grown or made, where it is processed, and where buyers get it. They explain the route using climate, resources, demand, and shipping links. They predict how a disruption could change that route.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student maps coffee beans from Brazilian farms to German roasters and buyers. They explain how growing conditions and demand shape that trade. They describe how a drought could cut supply or raise prices.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mistake the country where coffee is roasted for the country where it was grown. Some draw a straight line between countries and ignore ports and sea lanes. Others assume a port closure stops all trade, rather than delaying or shifting shipments.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Draw arrows on a world map from Brazilian coffee farms to German roasters. Label one reason for the trade and one way a port strike could change the shipment.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a world map, string, and cards for a Brazilian coffee farm, Santos port, and Hamburg roaster; have them build and label the route.
Ask: Why might German roasters buy Brazilian coffee instead of growing it locally? Have students use climate and buyer demand in their answers.
Hand out drought, port strike, and tariff cards; teams redraw the coffee route and note one likely change in supply, time, or cost.
Use a single-origin coffee bag label to compare bean origin with roasting location and sketch a likely route, marking unknown stops.
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