Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.17a

Social Studies9th GradeGlobalization and the Modern World

The Standard

SS24.WH.17: Analyze the effects of economic interdependence and globalization on places and their populations.

Explain motivations for countries to enter into global trade agreements.

2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain why a country might sign a trade agreement. They connect lower tariffs and shared rules to goals such as selling more exports, buying cheaper imports, and making trade more predictable.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can explain why a country might lower tariffs in exchange for access to another country's market. They can name who might gain and who might face more competition.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think an agreement removes every tariff or makes all goods cheaper. They may also assume every business in a country benefits equally.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: A country agrees to lower tariffs on imported cars if another country lowers tariffs on its wheat. Why might it sign, and who at home might object?

Lesson moves

Give pairs country cards, goods cards, and tariff tokens, then have them trade once with tariffs and once after signing a tariff-cutting agreement.
Ask students to write: Why might a country lower import tariffs if it wants to sell more of its own goods abroad?
Play a match game: students pair agreement terms, such as lower tariffs, with goals like bigger export markets or cheaper imports.
Bring in grocery labels showing where fruit was grown, then ask how lower tariffs could affect its price and the growers who sell it.

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