Oklahoma Social Studies MWH.P.2.4.C
The Standard
- MWH.P.2
- Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
- MWH.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) · MWH.P.2.4
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify what a government policy was meant to change. They use evidence to trace its effects on prices, jobs, and trade at home and abroad, in the past and today.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can separate a policy's goal from what happened. They can explain why a tariff might help a steel mill, raise costs for a carmaker, and lead another country to respond.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume a policy worked because its goal sounds reasonable. They may think tariffs affect only foreign sellers, not domestic buyers or exporters facing retaliation.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Imported steel rises from $100 to $125 after a tariff meant to help local steel mills. Name the intended effect on steel mills, one possible unintended effect on carmakers, and one possible effect on trade with another country.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs $100 steel import cards and a 25% tariff card; have them calculate a carmaker's new steel cost.
Ask students to write three sentences explaining how the 1930 U.S. tariff could help factories but hurt farmers selling crops abroad.
Have teams sort cards labeled more local steel sales, higher carmaking costs, foreign retaliation, and fewer exports into intended and unintended effects.
Check a banana's country-of-origin sticker and price; calculate its price if a 10% import tax were fully passed to buyers.
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