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WH 6-1, 6-3 Instructional Resources

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Lesson Ideas

Inquiry Tasks

  • Reinforce student understandings of the benefits related to trade for developing nations, using the presentation Making Progress with Trade, provided by O.C.S.S. and OKAGE. In what ways are developing nations involved in global marketplaces and how can developed nations assist in bringing more consumers and producers into the market?

  • Comparative Advantage explores the theory as both an abstract economic principle as well as a factor in decision-making. Encourage students to participate in the step-by- step exercises to strengthen student understandings related to the principles of free trade and international markets. Reinforce students' understanding of basic principles of trade, including trade balances and deficits, using the presentation International Trade, provided by OKAGE. 

  • Globalization and Workers' Rights, from the Constitutional Rights Foundation, encourages students to evaluate globalization on labor, including working conditions and rights of laborers. Ask students to explore aspects of domestic unemployment, sweatshops, and child labor in order to draw conclusions regarding calls for international labor laws.

  • Why People Trade, from the Foundation for Teaching Economics, asks students to consider why some economists favor voluntary (free) trade, without political considerations. The lesson focuses on understanding economic concepts, such as specialization, division of labor, productivity, and comparative advantage, asking students to apply such concepts to trade both within a nation and trade among nations.

  •  As globalization and international trade continue to link nations and regions closer together, ask students to examine the impact of globalization on culture, using an online, interactive exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution. Encourage students to examine a set of artifacts, identifying each as representative of globalization and/or cultural diffusion.

  • A Global Economy, from the Choices Program, engages students in an investigation of changes in the American and global economy during the close of the 20th century. Ask students to apply their conclusions to support one of four policy options for future international trade. Encourage students to debate each option, including risks, advantages, and long-term effects.  

  • Outsourcing to Asia, from OKAGE, provides an opportunity for students to analyze the impact of outsourcing domestic jobs and industries to other nations. What are the possible economic effects in both regions and what motivates the practice? Encourages students to examine possible economic reforms that could improve production, quality, and availability of goods worldwide. 

  • Globalization on Trial, an extended inquiry and simulation provided by the Oklahoma Council for Social Studies, encourages students to examine a set of primary and secondary sources, videoclips, images and cartoons in order to engage in a mock trial. Ask students to focus investigations on the central question, "Is globalization our friend or enemy?" 

  • Why Do We Need the WTO, an extended lesson from the Council on Economic Education, introduces students to international institutions that play important economic roles in the areas of international trade, finance, and development: the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United Nations, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the International Court of Justice. Ask students to examine criticisms of such organizations and determine if such criticism is justified.

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