Idaho Social Studies 9-12.US2.41
The Standard
Analyze the effects of globalization, free trade agreements, financial market deregulation, and the computer revolution on the economic boom of the 1990s.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Globalization, Information Technology, Terrorism, Political and Social Polarization 1992- Present
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how global trade, trade agreements, looser financial rules, and faster computers may have helped businesses grow in the 1990s. They trace effects on investment, productivity, prices, and jobs.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how NAFTA changed a North American supply chain, or how computers helped a business work faster. They can also explain how financial deregulation affected investment and name a possible cost of these changes.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think NAFTA caused the boom by itself or removed every trade barrier at once. They may assume rising stock prices meant higher wages for every worker, or that online shopping was common throughout the decade.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Explain one way NAFTA, looser banking rules, and cheaper computers could each help a 1990s business grow. Name one group that might not benefit.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a North America map and cards labeled car parts, assembly, and sale; map a supply chain and mark where tariffs fell.
Ask: Who gained and who lost when a U.S. company moved assembly to Mexico? Write two claims and explain NAFTA's role.
Play a matching game: pair NAFTA, bank deregulation, and cheaper computers with examples of trade, investment, or faster work.
Show an online checkout page; have students name two store tasks that 1990s computers began to speed up.
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