Economics 6th-8th: Indicator #7

Students will develop economic reasoning to understand the historical development and current status of economic principles, institutions, and processes needed to be effective citizens, consumers, and workers participating in local communities, the nation, and the world.

In the context of United States history through 1877, world history through the Middle Ages and in contemporary world geography, students are able to do everything required at earlier grades and are able to:

The National Geographic Society provides a lesson that "introduces the concept of global interdependence by exploring the origins of many of the goods that students wear and use every day." Recommended for grades 5-10.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/education/lesson_plans/58wearing.cfm
  

Tomatoes for Toyotas is a series of five lessons on trade between the U.S. and Japan.
http://www.easc.indiana.edu/pages/EASC/curriculum/eastasia/1998/pdf/tomatoes.pdf
  

From Marketplaces to Global Commerce is a lesson from the Asia with Pride page that is part of the Pride of Baltimore Web site. This lesson includes listings of appropriate indicators addressed by the lesson.
http://www.intandem.com/NewPrideSite/Asia/Lesson5/Lesson5_Tchr.html
  

This text-intensive lesson looks at the concept of trade.
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/FEOG1.htm
  

This lesson involves the export of agricultural products from the U.S. to China.
http://www.ais.msstate.edu/age/lesson7/index.html
 

This lesson looks at the complexity of international trade in a legal context.
http://www.ais.msstate.edu/age/lesson9/index.html
 

This lesson, Diplomatic Field of Dreams, from the New York Times' Daily Lesson Plan Web page evaluates U.S.-Cuba relations. The lesson includes a look at trade restrictions and a look at the efforts to allow the Orioles to play a game in Cuba.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/990106wednesday.html
 

The International Salary Calculator allows you to compare the cost of living in locations around the globe with various locations in the U.S.
http://www.homefair.com/homefair/cmr/salcalc.html

Map Stats from the U.S. Census Bureau provides a wealth of easily accessible information about all 50 States of the Union. Economic census data is provided in table form.
http://www.census.gov/datamap/www/index.html
 

This site allows you to do cost of living comparisons between more than 500 U.S. cities.
http://www.homefair.com/calc/salcalc.html?NETSCAPE_LIVEWIRE.src=moneymag

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