Idaho Social Studies 5.SS.3.2

Social Studies5th GradeEconomics

The Standard

Explain the concepts of tariffs, taxation, and embargo.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students tell apart fees on imported goods, taxes that help pay for public services, and government bans on trade. They explain who pays a charge and what buying or selling a ban stops.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given an import fee, a sales tax receipt, and a blocked shipment, students identify each policy. They know the importer pays the import fee and that a trade ban stops shipments rather than adding a charge.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think the exporting country pays an import fee, rather than the importer. They may think a trade ban just makes goods more expensive, or that every tax applies to imports.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: A shop pays a $2 government fee to import a backpack, a customer pays a $1 government charge at checkout, and shipments from Country B are banned. Name each policy and say who pays or what stops.

Lesson moves

Run a paper-shoe store with play money; charge the shopkeeper a $2 import fee and buyers a $1 sales tax, then block one supplier.
Ask: “A store pays $2 to import shoes. Does the exporting country pay that fee, and might the store raise its price?”
Play policy bingo: read border fees, receipt taxes, and blocked shipments from nine cards; students cover import fee, sales tax, or trade ban.
Show a grocery receipt and a country-of-origin label on fruit; ask how checkout tax and a possible import fee would show up differently.

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