Oklahoma Social Studies 6.C.6.3.C
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.
Tertiary Sector: Businesses that provide services to consumers (e.g., Costa Rica's ecotourism, New York Stock Exchange, Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center).
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 businesses that provide services rather than grow or make goods. They explain what a tour guide, stock exchange, or medical center does for its customers.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can sort a farm, factory, tour company, stock exchange, and hospital by the work each does. They can name the customer and service in each service business.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may say a tour company sells goods because visitors take photos, or that a hospital makes goods because it uses machines. They may think a stock exchange makes shares rather than providing a place to trade them.
How to Assess It
- Give this exit ticket: An ecotour guide leads visitors through a rainforest. Name the service, identify the customer, and explain why this is not manufacturing.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards showing a coffee farm, shoe factory, rainforest guide, stock exchange, and cancer center; have them sort goods from services.
Have students write two sentences comparing what a rainforest guide sells with what a shoe factory sells.
Play service charades: students mime guiding tourists, treating a patient, or placing a stock order while classmates name the service and customer.
Show a sample barbershop price list and have students name the service, the customer, and the tools used to deliver it.
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