Indiana Social Studies 7.E.2

Social Studies7th GradeEconomics

The Standard

Identify ways that societies deal with helpful and harmful externalities in Africa, Asia, and the Southwest Pacific.

2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify when an action helps or harms people who were not involved in it. They explain how societies in Africa, Asia, and the Southwest Pacific encourage benefits or reduce harm.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can name who benefits from tree planting in Kenya and who is harmed by factory runoff in India. They can suggest a seed grant for the trees or a wastewater rule for the factory, and explain why each fits.
Common Misconceptions: Students may count a farmer's own harvest as a benefit to someone else. They may think these effects are always harmful, or suggest fining people for tree planting.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Hillside trees help neighbors in Kenya, a factory pollutes a river in India, and volunteers clean a reef in Fiji. For each case, name someone affected who was not involved and suggest one way the community could respond.

Lesson moves

Pairs pin Kenya tree planting, India factory runoff, and Fiji reef cleanup cards on a map, then label the people affected.
Students write two sentences explaining who pays for polluted river water near an Indian factory and how a treatment rule changes that cost.
Play response match: teams pair Kenya tree planting with seed grants, India factory runoff with treatment rules, and Fiji reef cleanup with community funding.
Show a photo of litter near school and a Fiji reef cleanup photo; students name who benefits from each cleanup and who could pay.

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