Georgia SS6E2.b

Social Studies6th GradeLatin America and Canada

The Standard

Compare and contrast different types of trade barriers, such as tariffs, quotas, and embargos.

Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies · Give examples of how voluntary trade benefits buyers and sellers in Latin America.

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify how tariffs, quotas, and embargoes restrict trade in different ways. They explain how each barrier can change prices, supply, and choices for buyers and sellers.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can label a trade barrier from a short scenario and explain their evidence. They can compare a tariff’s added cost, a quota’s quantity limit, and an embargo’s ban on specified trade.
Common Misconceptions: Students often confuse a quota with a tariff or think both completely stop trade. They may also assume barriers affect only foreign sellers, not consumer prices, product supply, or local businesses.
How to Assess It: Give students three scenarios: an import tax, a limit of 10,000 cars, and a ban on trade with one country. Have them name each barrier and predict one effect.

Lesson moves

Give groups beans as goods and tokens as money, then run three trading rounds with a tariff, quota, and embargo.
Ask students to write which barrier most restricts coffee imports and defend their answer using effects on price and supply.
Play Barrier Sort: teams match scenario cards to tariffs, quotas, or embargoes, then explain each choice.
Use a grocery shelf photo to trace how a restriction on Latin American bananas could affect shoppers, importers, and growers.

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