Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.17b
The Standard
- SS24.WH.17
- Analyze the effects of economic interdependence and globalization on places and their populations.
Describe how economic challenges confronting least developed and developing countries impact their political system and society.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how debt, job losses, or falling export prices can strain a country's budget. They trace how leaders and voters may respond, and how daily life may change.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a short scenario, students can explain a chain from an economic problem to a political response and a change in public services. They describe these as possible outcomes, not outcomes that happen everywhere.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume all developing countries face the same problems or have the same type of government. They may think falling export prices affect only farmers, missing the effect on tax revenue and public services.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Cocoa prices fall and government tax revenue drops. Name one possible change in elections or protests and one effect on schools, then explain each link.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups 20 paper tokens for a country's budget, remove five after an export-price drop, and have them vote on school and clinic funding.
Ask students: If debt payments rise, should leaders cut clinic funding or raise taxes, and how might voters respond?
Play a cause-and-effect card sort: match export price drops and factory closures to budget choices, protests, and changes in daily life.
Show a cocoa price chart and a map of Ghana; ask how lower prices might change farm income, school funding, and voter demands.
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