Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.18b
The Standard
- SS24.WH.18
- Describe the interrelationship between people and the environment in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Compare and contrast the current consumption of natural resources in various countries across the world.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read recent data on how much oil, water, or other resources countries use. They compare total use with use per person and support their comparisons with numbers.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can rank countries by total use and by use per person, then explain why the rankings may differ. They check the resource, units, and year before making a claim.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat a country's total use as the amount each resident uses. They may also confuse what a country produces or exports with what it uses, or compare figures from different years.
How to Assess It
- Give this exit ticket: 2024 oil use, in rounded millions of barrels per day, was United States 20, China 16, India 5. Rank the countries, identify the closest pair, and explain why these totals do not show use per person.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs 2024 oil-use and population cards for the United States, China, and India; have them calculate and rank use per person.
Ask students to write two sentences comparing oil use in the United States and India, using the table's units and population figures.
Post four country cards with oil totals and populations; have teams match claims to the correct total or per-person figure.
Show a household natural-gas bill and a recent country gas-use chart; ask students how household use differs from national use.
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