Georgia SS6E8

SS6E8 is a Georgia social studies standard. These are the elements under it.

• SS6E8.a

  Explain how specialization encourages trade between countries.

• SS6E8.b

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

• SS6E8.c

  Explain why international trade requires a system for exchanging currencies between nations.

• SS6E8.d

  Describe the purpose of the European Union and the relationship between member nations.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how specialization lets European countries trade for goods they do not produce efficiently. They analyze how tariffs, quotas, embargoes, and currency exchange affect trade.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can use a country example to show how both trading partners benefit. They can predict how a trade barrier changes prices, supply, or access to goods.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think one country must lose whenever another benefits from trade. They often confuse tariffs with quotas and may treat the euro as the currency of every European country.

04

How to Assess It

Give students this exit ticket: France sells cheese to Britain, which adds a tariff. Explain one trade benefit, one likely tariff effect, and why currency exchange is needed.

1. 01

   Give groups country, product, and token cards, then have them specialize and trade to meet a five-product shopping list.

2. 02

   Ask students to write whether a tariff on imported shoes helps or hurts European consumers, then defend their answer with two effects.

3. 03

   Play a card sort where teams match trade scenarios to specialization, tariff, quota, embargo, or currency exchange.

4. 04

   Use current prices for a British product and an exchange rate, then calculate its cost in euros before adding a tariff.

• SS6E2

  Give examples of how voluntary trade benefits buyers and sellers in Latin America.

• SS7E2

  Explain how voluntary trade benefits buyers and sellers in Africa.

• SS7E8

  Explain how voluntary trade benefits buyers and sellers in Southern and Eastern Asia.

• SS3E3

  Give examples of interdependence and trade and explain the benefits of voluntary exchange.