Georgia SS5G2

SS5G2 is a Georgia social studies standard. These are the elements under it.

• SS5G2.a

  Locate primary agricultural and industrial locations between the end of the Civil War and 1900 and explain how factors such as population, transportation, and r...

• SS5G2.b

  Locate primary agricultural and industrial locations since the turn of the 20th century and explain how factors such as population, transportation, and resource...

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify where farming, mining, manufacturing, trade, and services are concentrated on maps. They explain these locations using resources, climate, land, workers, transportation, and nearby markets.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can describe a cluster, route, or regional pattern shown on a map. They can compare two possible locations and support the better choice with geographic evidence.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may assume businesses locate wherever raw materials are found or that population size is the only factor. They may confuse where resources are collected with where products are manufactured or sold.

04

How to Assess It

Show a map with a river, highway, city, farmland, and port. Ask students to place a food-processing plant and give two reasons for their choice.

1. 01

   Give groups a blank map and business cards, then have them place each business and label the geographic factors behind each choice.

2. 02

   Ask students to write which matters more for a factory, nearby resources or nearby customers, and defend their answer with an example.

3. 03

   Play a location challenge where teams match farms, mines, factories, and stores to map sites and earn points for accurate explanations.

4. 04

   Trace a Georgia peach from farm to grocery store, marking where growing, packing, shipping, and selling occur and why.

• SS3G3.c

  Explain how the physical geography of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies helped determine economic activities.

• SS7E3.d

  Explain how the distribution of natural resources affects the economic development of Africa.

• SS5E1

  Use the basic economic concepts of trade, opportunity cost, specialization, productivity, and price incentives to illustrate historical events.

• SS4E1.c

  Describe how specialization improves standards of living (e.g., differences in the economies in the North and South).