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Recognizing Trade Definitions and Concepts
High schoolers differentiate between imports and exports and examine data related to international trade. They view and discuss a PowerPoint presentation about international trade, define key vocabulary terms, answer discussion...
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Trade is a Two-way Street (and More)
Learners study the transactions that trade involves. They determine how raw materials that are produced in one country are returned as finished products. They research and present this cycle for a product.
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Alaska Trade
Learners spend two days traveling throughout Alaska, trading as they go. They explore universal principles related to trade and commerce while studying about Alaska's geography and indigenous people. At the end of the lesson, students...
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Trade Barriers
Students write an editorial piece which takes a position supporting or opposing the free trade policy during the 1790s. After identifying barriers to trade in the 1790s they analyze how their position on the free trade would fit into...
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Balance of Payments (BOP)
Learners work through ten transactions that will help them understand credits and debts on a global scale. They then discuss each transaction in terms of the global economy. An extension activity and discussion questions are included.
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Morality in Markets: The Two Faces of Adam Smith
Economist Adam Smith supported free enterprise, he but critiqued mercantilism. These two ideas—seemingly contradictory—may be difficult for some young historians to grasp. A reading that explores these ideas guides scholars in unraveling...
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Why We Trade: Exchanging Goods and Services
Students conduct simple bartering and trading activities and consider how product value can be altered by the market.
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Trading in the Silk Road Cities
Students explore elements of trade along the Silk Roads by examining the products of various locations along the route.
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Trade along the Silk Roads
Students explore the Silk Road. In this Asian history and culture instructional activity, students read a book about the silk Road, then create pictures of the products and landscapes found along the Silk Road.
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Understanding the Effects of Currency Exchangerates
Students examine the economic effects of a strong and weak U.S. dollar. They identify the currency used in countries which regularly trade with the U.S., discuss the pros and cons of a strong U.S. dollar, and calculate the prices in...
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Why Money?
Students participate in a trading simulation to learn about barter and the benefits of using money. In this barter lesson, students participate in a trading simulation and learn about coincidence of wants. Students then use money cards...
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America's Heartland
Students complete geography and trade activities about global trade. In this geography and trade lesson, students read information to learn about absolute advantage, comparative advantage, trade factors, U.S. trade partners, and...
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The Euro: Classroom Exercises
Students examine trade between the United States and the European Union. In this costs of goods lesson plan, students conduct research to identify the costs of goods made in the EU in America and the cost of goods made in America in the EU.
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Hivernants: The Wintering Voyageurs
Students research the history of fur posts in North America. In this North American history instructional activity, students apply skills of historical interpretation by collecting and analyzing data from historic sources on the fur...
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Economic Community
Fourth graders assume different jobs of a community and understand the terms goods, services, producer, and consumer. For this community lesson plan, 4th graders answer short answer questions to show their knowledge of the terms.
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Economy vs. Humanity
Ninth graders examine the American Slave Trade. In this World History lesson, 9th graders analyze photos of the Middle Passage. Students read an account of a person on one of the Middle Passage voyages.
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Oklahoma Wheat on the World Market
Sixth graders explore profit and loss in the wheat trading market. In this sixth grade mathematics lesson/social studies lesson, 6th graders play a “Wheat Market Trading Game” in order to investigate the concept of supply and demand and...
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We Live in an International Community
Students locate the different countries from which their clothing originates. Using a blank map, they identify and color in those areas.
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Paper Money of the Sung, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties
Why did the Chinese develop paper money? They were the first society to use paper currency. Learners consider why paper money was more convenient than other mechanisms of trade using a helpful lesson plan, which includes a graphic...
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In Celebration of the Silk Road
Sixth graders explore the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road with a focus on a province in China to identify artifacts and research how these items arrived in the city of Turpan.
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Articles of Confederation Game
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail? Your historians will find out firsthand through this simulation activity, during which they will use money (consider using extra credit) to demonstrate the inherent flaws. It's simple: each...
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The Role of Money
Students investigate the role of money and how it is used in the world. The purpose and the history of it is covered while they look at concepts like spending in different parts of the world. This is when students practice with exchange...
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A Rooster and a Bean Seed
Students study exchange and how it has different forms. In this money management lesson, students are able to learn how goods and services work by completing worksheets, activities, essay questions and assessments provided.
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Let's Make A Deal
Students conduct a Swap Day to determine how bartering to exchange goods works. They trade something that they do not want for an item that they prefer.