Oklahoma Social Studies 6.C.6.3.A
The Standard
- 6.C.6
- Analyze economic systems of the world and how they impact the development of a nation and region.
- 6.C.6.3
- Explain how different sectors of a nation’s economy contribute to the development of a nation.
Primary Sector: Extraction and harvesting of natural products (e.g., Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt, Chile’s artisanal fishing, logging of Canada’s boreal forests).
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 6.C.6.3
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify jobs that take natural resources from the land or water. They connect oil extraction in Venezuela, fishing in Chile, and logging in Canada to the places and resources involved.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can match the Orinoco Belt with oil, Chile's coast with fish, and Canada's boreal forests with timber. They can explain why catching fish is primary-sector work but canning fish is not.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may count refining oil or making wooden chairs as primary-sector work because the materials came from nature. They may also count selling fish as harvesting fish.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Classify drilling for oil, catching fish, canning fish, and logging trees as primary-sector work or not. For each primary-sector job, name the resource collected.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a blank Americas map and three resource cards; have them place oil by Venezuela, fish by Chile, and timber by Canada.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining why catching fish off Chile's coast and canning fish belong to different sectors.
Run a card sort with drilling, refining, fishing, canning, logging, and furniture making; students separate collecting resources from processing them.
Show a grocery store fish label; have students name the job that caught the fish and the later job that packaged it.
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