Idaho Social Studies 6-9.WG.5.5
The Standard
Describe the costs and benefits of global connections including trading, seeking solutions to mutual problems, learning from technological advances, acquiring new perspectives, and benefiting from developments in culture.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students describe how trade, shared solutions, technology, and cultural exchange link places. They explain how contact with people elsewhere can change viewpoints. They identify benefits, costs, and who experiences each.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how imported goods may lower prices for buyers while hurting local sellers. They can name a benefit of sharing disease alerts across borders and a cost of running the alert system.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think cheaper imports help everyone, overlooking local sellers who lose sales. They may assume shared technology is free or works equally well everywhere. They may assume music from another country replaces local music.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A town imports cheap phones and shares wildfire alerts across borders. For each connection, name one benefit, one possible cost, and who experiences each.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs notes reading 'cheaper bananas,' 'local farm loses sales,' 'early outbreak warning,' and 'alert translation costs'; sort by benefit or cost.
Ask: 'How might a video call with students in another country change your view of school lunch, and what could be lost in translation?'
Run four rounds: teams write a gain and loss for imported rice, shared flood maps, vaccine research, and Korean pop music.
Check country-of-origin labels on two classroom objects; mark both places on a map and name one buyer benefit and one possible worker cost.
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