Oklahoma Social Studies E.P.2.4.C

Social StudiesGrades 9–12Social Studies Practices

The Standard

E.P.2: Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
E.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.

Evaluate the impact, both intended and unintended, of government policies on market outcomes at national and global levels, past and present.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students compare past and current trade policies, such as tariffs. They use price, sales, or job data to explain planned and unplanned effects at home and abroad.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can name a policy's goal and trace how it changes prices and purchases across borders. They use evidence to support their claims and consider other possible causes.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think foreign governments pay tariffs, rather than importers. They may overlook higher costs for local buyers and lost sales abroad. They may assume any later price change was caused by the policy.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: A country adds a $25 tariff to $100 imported steel. Name its intended effect, then one possible effect on a local buyer and one on a foreign seller.

Lesson moves

Give groups domestic steel at $110 and imported steel at $100; add a $25 tariff and have buyers move purchase tokens.
Ask: Who gained, who paid more, and how might foreign sellers respond to the 2018 U.S. steel tariffs?
Race to sort tariff cards, 'mill hires,' 'carmaker costs rise,' and 'foreign sales fall,' into policy goals and side effects.
Find an imported shirt's price tag; add a hypothetical 10% tariff if passed to shoppers, then predict how overseas sellers might fare.

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