Alabama Social Studies SS24.HG.14b
The Standard
- SS24.HG.14
- Explain how economic interdependence and globalization impact countries and their populations.
Explain the advantages and disadvantages of global trade agreements for both people and countries.
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 trace how a trade deal changes prices, sales, and jobs in two countries. They explain who gains and who loses, including shoppers, workers, businesses, and governments.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why shoppers may pay less while workers at local factories may lose jobs. They can show how a country may gain export sales but collect less tariff revenue.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume cheaper imports help everyone, overlooking workers at competing businesses. Some think a trade deal ends all trade rules, or that one country's gain must be the other's loss.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Two countries agree to remove tariffs on shirts. Name one benefit and one cost for people and for each country, and explain each answer.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs shirt cards priced $8 locally and $7 abroad, plus a $2 tariff token; compare purchases before and after removing the token.
Ask, 'When imported shirts get cheaper, who benefits and who loses?' Have students name a shopper, factory worker, exporter, and government.
Give groups shopper, worker, exporter, and tax collector role cards; have them sort the effects of removing a tariff into gains and losses.
Compare price tags on imported and local rice bags; ask how a tariff cut could change shopper costs and local farmers' sales.
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Related Standards
- SS24.WH.17a
Explain motivations for countries to enter into global trade agreements.
- SS24.CWI.9b
Describe the costs and benefits of trade among nations in an interdependent world.
- SS24.E.11
Explain why individuals, businesses, and nations engage in trading goods and services in the global economy.
- SS24.E.11a
Contrast absolute advantage to comparative advantage, and explain how they are used to measure gains from trade.
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