Virginia SOL VS.13.b
The Standard
examining the impact of the ideas, innovations, and advancements of Virginians on a global market
Virginia Standards of Learning for History and Social Science
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect a Virginia idea or innovation to changes in how goods, services, or information move around the world. They use maps and short sources to explain a clear cause-and-effect chain.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify the Virginia contribution, tell what problem it addressed, and trace at least one effect beyond the United States. The explanation uses evidence from a map, image, profile, or data source.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call any product made in Virginia an invention by a Virginian. They may treat trade with another state as global trade. They may name a person or technology without explaining its effect on businesses or consumers.
How to Assess It
- Give students this exit ticket: Choose Gladys West's GPS work or another lesson example. Complete, "The Virginia contribution was ___. It affected worldwide trade by ___ because ___."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use a paper world map and string to trace how Gladys West's GPS work supports a phone, cargo ship, and farm tractor.
Read a short Gladys West profile, then write two sentences explaining how her mathematical work changed worldwide shipping and business.
Match cards for GPS calculations, aerospace research, and internet infrastructure to cards showing their effects on trade.
Check a delivery tracking page or food label, then mark how GPS or transportation links that item to Virginia and another country.
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Related Standards
- VS.13
The student will apply history and social science skills to explain Virginia’s role in the global economy in the 21st Century by
- VS.4.b
examining how colonial Virginia reflected the culture of Virginia’s Indigenous People, European (English, Scots-Irish, German) immigrants, and Africans;
- CE.12.g
analyzing the role of Virginia in the United States and global economies, with an emphasis on the effect of technological innovations.
- VS.13.a
examining major products and industries important to Virginia; and
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