Oklahoma Social Studies 6.P.2.4.C

Social Studies6th GradeSocial Studies Practices

The Standard

6.P.2: Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
6.P.2.4: Identify the principles of economic systems and develop an understanding of the benefits of a market system in local, national, and global settings.

Explain how technology and trade impact standard of living and economic interdependence, using historical or contemporary examples.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 6.P.2.4

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain how a shipping technology changes the price or availability of a traded good. They show how buyers, sellers, and workers in different places depend on one another.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can explain how refrigerated containers make imported fruit available more often and affect what shoppers can afford. They can trace how a port closure affects both shoppers and growers.
Common Misconceptions: Students may assume cheaper imports help everyone, overlooking local growers who lose sales. They may think a shipping delay hurts only shoppers, not the growers and workers who rely on those sales.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Bananas arrive from another country in refrigerated containers. Explain how refrigeration affects shoppers, then name one effect of a month-long shipping halt on shoppers and growers.

Lesson moves

Give groups cards labeled grower, port, ship, and store; connect them with string, then remove one link and list who loses income.
Ask students to write: Do cheap imported bananas help everyone? Compare a shopper and a local fruit grower.
Play a card match pairing refrigerated containers, cargo ships, and port closures with changes in fruit prices, access, or jobs.
Have students read origin labels on grocery packages, mark countries on a map, and explain how stores depend on foreign suppliers.

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