Oklahoma Social Studies USG.P.2.4.C
The Standard
- USG.P.2
- Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
- USG.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) · USG.P.2.4
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare what a policy was meant to change with what happened to prices, jobs, or trade. They trace effects in the US and other countries, using older and recent examples.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain who a policy was meant to help and who else was affected. They use price or trade evidence to support an intended and an unintended effect without assuming the policy caused every change.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think foreign governments pay US import tariffs, rather than US importers, who may pass costs to buyers. They may also miss that other countries can respond with their own tariffs.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: The US raised steel tariffs in 2018 to help US mills, and other countries taxed US exports in response. Name one intended US effect and one unintended effect on US buyers or exporters.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs steel price cards from before and after a tariff; have them recalculate the steel cost on a paper car factory order.
Read a short account of the 1930 US tariff and foreign retaliation; ask, "Who was meant to benefit, and who lost sales?"
Deal cards showing effects of the 1930 and 2018 tariffs; teams sort them by US or overseas impact and intended or unintended result.
Show a sugar bag price tag and sample domestic and imported prices; ask who might gain or lose if the US limits sugar imports.
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