Oklahoma Social Studies 6.C.6.3

6.C.6.3 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 6.C.6.3.A

  Primary Sector: Extraction and harvesting of natural products (e.g., Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt, Chile’s artisanal fishing, logging of Canada’s boreal forests)

• 6.C.6.3.B

  Secondary Sector: Production of goods through manufacturing and construction (e.g., United States of America's steel industry, Argentina’s meat-processing, Mexi...

• 6.C.6.3.C

  Tertiary Sector: Businesses that provide services to consumers (e.g., Costa Rica's ecotourism, New York Stock Exchange, Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center).

• 6.C.6.3.D

  Quaternary Sector: Research and intellectual services such as technological advancement and innovation (e.g., Silicon Valley and Sao Paulo’s technology centers,...

01

What Students Need to Do

Students sort jobs into gathering raw materials, making goods, providing services, and doing research. They explain how each type of work can add jobs, income, or new tools to a country.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student correctly sorts a fisher, cannery worker, tour guide, and fishing-net researcher. They explain how these workers can help a country earn money or improve how work gets done.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may call a cannery part of the primary sector because it handles fish. They may call a research lab a regular service business, or assume only factories help an economy grow.

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How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A coastal country has fishers, a cannery, tour guides, and a lab testing new fishing nets. Name each sector, then explain how two of these jobs could help the country grow.

1. 01

   Give groups four job cards, fisher, cannery worker, tour guide, and net researcher, to sort onto sector mats and connect with arrows.

2. 02

   Ask: How could a new cannery and fishing-net lab change jobs in a coastal country? Have students write two cause-and-effect sentences.

3. 03

   Play sector bingo with clues such as miner, car assembler, hotel clerk, and vaccine researcher; students mark a square and explain their choice.

4. 04

   Read a canned fish label to find its packing country, then discuss how packing fish for export could bring jobs and income there.

• 3.C.4.3.B

  Examine how the development of recent economic activities has contributed to the state’s economy, identifying examples of goods and services provided by local b...

• 6.C.6

  Analyze economic systems of the world and how they impact the development of a nation and region.

• 7.C.7.3

  Evaluate how the major sectors of economic activities contribute to the development of a country or region:

• 4.C.4.2

  Describe how economic activities impact the nation’s economy.