Oklahoma Social Studies 6.C.6.3.B
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.
Secondary Sector: Production of goods through manufacturing and construction (e.g., United States of America's steel industry, Argentina’s meat-processing, Mexico’s automotive exports).
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 work that turns raw materials into goods or builds structures. They trace how cattle become packaged beef, iron ore becomes steel, and parts become cars.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify a meatpacking plant, steel mill, car factory, and building site as secondary-sector workplaces. They can explain what each workplace makes or builds.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may count raising cattle or mining iron ore as manufacturing. They may also think selling a car is the same kind of work as building one.
How to Assess It
- Ask: Which jobs belong to the secondary sector: raising cattle, packing beef, building a school, or selling beef? For each choice, name what workers make or build.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs picture cards of cattle, packaged beef, iron ore, steel beams, and cars. Have them arrange each raw material beside a finished good.
Ask students to write two sentences comparing the work done at an Argentine meatpacking plant and a Mexican car factory.
Play a sorting round with job cards: rancher, steelworker, car assembler, builder, and store clerk. Students defend each placement.
Show a photo of a nearby construction site. Ask students what workers are building and why the work counts as production.
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Related Standards
- 6.C.6.3
Explain how different sectors of a nation’s economy contribute to the development of a nation.
- 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)
- 7.C.7.3.B
Production of goods through manufacturing and construction (Secondary Sector)
- 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).
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