Idaho Social Studies 6-9.WG.3.5

Social StudiesGrades 6–9Economics

The Standard

Identify economic connections between local, national, and global economies in regions throughout the world.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students trace how a product moves between a nearby business, other parts of the country, and another country. They identify who buys and sells it and explain how a change in one place could affect the others.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can show how coffee from a Colombian farm reaches an Idaho roaster and customers across the U.S. They can explain how a smaller coffee harvest might affect the roaster’s costs and customers’ prices.
Common Misconceptions: Students may assume a product sold locally was also made or grown locally. They may treat a business in another state as a global connection rather than a national one.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: A Boise shop roasts beans grown in Colombia and sells coffee across the U.S. Name one local, one national, and one global connection, then explain one possible effect of a poor harvest in Colombia.

Lesson moves

Give pairs cards for a Colombian farm, U.S. importer, Idaho roaster, and Boise buyer; use string to show who sells to whom.
Ask, “How might a drought in Colombia affect an Idaho coffee roaster and a Boise customer?”
Sort cards showing Boise-to-Boise, Seattle-to-Boise, and Colombia-to-Boise sales into local, national, and global connections.
Have students find a food label with a country of origin, then mark that country and their grocery store on a map.

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