Idaho Social Studies 6-9.WG.5.6
The Standard
Explain the causes and consequences of current global issues, including the expansion of global markets, the urbanization of the developing world, the consumption of natural resources, and the extinction of species.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why global trade expands, cities grow, resources are used, and species disappear. They trace how each change affects people and the environment.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how demand for exported goods may create factory jobs, draw workers to a city, and increase demand for land and materials. They can use a map, chart, or article to support each link.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think cities grow only because more babies are born, overlooking migration for work. They may assume that using a natural resource always uses it up, or that losing habitat means a species is already extinct.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: “A phone factory ships products abroad, hires rural workers, buys mined metal, and clears forest for housing.” For trade, city growth, resource use, and species loss, write one likely cause and one possible consequence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards labeled export orders, factory jobs, city migration, metal mining, forest clearing, and species decline; arrange possible cause-and-effect chains.
Ask: “Who gains from a new export factory, and who might lose when nearby forest is cleared?” Have students explain two effects.
Play cause-or-consequence: teams place “factory jobs” and “crowded housing” on opposite sides of a city growth card, then explain why.
Read three clothing tags, locate their production countries on a map, and list resources used to make and ship the clothes.
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