Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.17

SS24.WH.17 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.WH.17a

  Explain motivations for countries to enter into global trade agreements.

• SS24.WH.17b

  Describe how economic challenges confronting least developed and developing countries impact their political system and society.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain why countries sign trade deals, such as gaining buyers or lowering import costs. They trace how trade and price changes affect jobs and daily life in different places. They explain how debt or falling export income can strain public services and shape government choices in poorer countries.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a trade deal between Mexico and the United States, a student can explain why each country might want lower tariffs and identify workers who might gain or lose. Given a drop in Ethiopian coffee prices, they can trace possible effects on farm income, tax revenue, services, and pressure on leaders.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think trade deals remove every tariff and benefit every worker equally. They may see falling export prices as only a business problem, missing the effects on jobs, public services, and political pressure.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A coffee-exporting country signs a deal that cuts tariffs, then coffee prices fall. Give one reason it signed and trace one possible effect on workers and one on public services or government choices.

1. 01

   Give pairs buyer, worker, and tariff cards for a Mexico-U.S. auto parts trade; remove the tariffs and record who might gain or lose.

2. 02

   Ask students to write how a drop in Ethiopian coffee prices might affect farm income, school attendance, tax revenue, and pressure on leaders.

3. 03

   Run a card sort matching lower tariffs, shared rules, and new buyers to countries' goals; have students defend one match.

4. 04

   Check a grocery store coffee label for its origin, then trace how a price drop could affect growers and the importing store.

• SS24.HG.14

  Explain how economic interdependence and globalization impact countries and their populations.

• SS24.CWI.9

  Evaluate the impact of economic globalization on worldwide trends and on individual nations and regions.

• SS24.HG.11

  Analyze how the economic and cultural activities of urban places shape surrounding regions.

• SS24.7.2

  Analyze how human interaction with the environment, location, movement, place, and region affect cultural, economic, and social conditions for those living in a...