Trade and Economy
- Grade
Level K-4
- Grade Level 6-8
- Grade Level 9-12
K-4
Resource: Lesson
Plan
Lesson Plan Title: Trade and Transportation
in the United States
Description: Students will imagine what
it would be like to operate a plane, train, or truck along
a trade route across the United States. They will also look at maps
of major U.S. transportation networks and will explain how
specific products might get from one place to another.
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/11/gk2/belongings.html
Credit: National Geographic Xpeditions
Resource: Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan Title: “On
the Road Again”: Moving People, Products, and Ideas
Description: In this lesson students
learn to identify modes of transportation and communication for moving
people, products, and ideas from place to place . Students also
learn the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of transportation.
This lesson investigates ways in which global interdependence is
altering traditional trade patterns, and encourages students to speculate
on future world economic development.
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/11/g35/ontheroad.html
Credit: National Geographic Xpeditions
Resource: Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan Title: Where Do Your Belongings
Come From?
Description: This lesson asks students
to figure out where
their belongings came from and to consider the reasons why many
items are imported from other countries. They will list the locations
of origin for the items they use on a typical morning. Students will
conclude by researching the export industries of an East Asian country
and writing paragraphs describing this country's exports to the United
States.
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/11/g35/belongings.html
Credit: National Geographic Xpeditions
6-8
Resource: Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan Title: Commerce
in the Indian Ocean
Description: This lesson will introduce
students to the geographic features of the Indian Ocean and the critical
role of the monsoon in determining maritime trading patterns before
the 16th century. Students will research various historic ports along
the borders of the Indian Ocean and determine possible ways that
local rulers attracted merchants. They will assess the extent of
commerce in the Indian Ocean before the arrival of European ships
in the 16th century and how trading patterns changed there as a result.
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/11/g68/commerce.html
Credit: National Geographic Xpeditions
Resource: Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan Title: Products Across Borders
Description: This lesson has students
learn about foreign products available in the United States and about
U.S. companies that sell products abroad. Students will illustrate
two maps to show where
products come from and where they are sold , and discuss ways
in which they notice the impact of globalization in their own lives.
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/11/g68/products.html
Credit: National Geographic Xpeditions
Resource: Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan Title: Class
Actions: Exploring
the Determination and Impact of Class in American Society
Description: In this lesson, students
examine the many facets of the term “class,” defining
the term and exploring some of the ways that class plays into life
in American society. They then participate in a poll about class-related
issues and administer a poll to others, evaluating their findings
and comparing them to the results of a similar New York Times poll.
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20050516monday.html
Credit: The New York Times on the Web
Learning Network
Resource: Website
Title: AsiaSource
Description: A wealth of online resources
on Asia from the Asia Society. The section on Business and Economics
is relevant here, but the site also features Arts & Culture,
Policy & Government, and Society & History sections, as well
as links to other 'sister' sites — AsiaTODAY (news), AsiaFOOD
(recipes), AsiaBUSINESS, AsiaEVENTS (worldwide calendar), and AsiaVIEWS
(articles & speeches), and more.
URL: http://www.asiasource.org/
Credit: Asia Society (www.asiasociety.org)
9-12
Resource: Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan Title: Gold:
From the Mine to You
Description: As part of a well-rounded
geography education, it is important for students to learn about
the processes by which natural
resources are extracted from the Earth and the ways these resources
are used. It is also important for students to recognize that there
are always environmental and human impacts caused by the resource
extraction process. This lesson asks students to focus on gold and
the process that takes it from miners to jewelers. By learning about
this process, students will be encouraged to think about the individuals
behind the production process and the environmental and human impacts
associated with producing their belongings.
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/16/g912/frommine.html
Credit: National Geographic Xpeditions
Resource: Lesson Plan Sets
Lesson Plan Title: Class Matters
Description: A team of reporters spent
more than a year exploring ways that class - defined as a combination
of income, education, wealth and occupation - influences destiny
in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of unbounded
opportunity.
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/issues_in_depth/20050515.html
Credit: The New York Times on the Web
Learning Network
Resource: Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan Title: China and Europe:
1500-2000 and Beyond: What is Modern?
Description: From 1000-1500, China led the world in economic
development. As trade between China and Europe begins to expand
from 1550 onwards, the Chinese economy is, by many measures,
more productive than Europe's.
Comparing the leading economic region in Europe (England) and in
China (the Yangzi delta) in the period 1500 to 1800, we find that
these two regions perform quite similarly. The population of the
Lower Yangzi Region in China is roughly as well off as the population
of England at this time.
URL: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/chinawh/
Credit: Asia for Educators / Columbia University
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