Globalization has been evolving and connecting societies for centuries, but it has faced renewed attention, particularly in relation to trade and tariff policies. Introduce material from this suite of resources to students in your 9–12th grade classroom to identify, analyze, and evaluate the impacts of globalization on society and progress.
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This lesson explores the economic concepts of comparative and absolute advantage through real‐world examples. Students will identify how countries specialize in producing certain goods and explain how this affects global trade, economic relationships, and resource consumption.
This lesson teaches high school students about global trade and government interventions by having them create multimedia presentations (20 slides at 20 seconds each) about chocolate production ingredients.
Students will revisit concepts from the Spheradell globalization simulation in order to explore production possibilities, opportunity cost, and comparative advantage.
Students will simulate interdependence by creating a special baked product important to the people of Spheradell.
After analyzing a historical political cartoon, students will read about government interventions in international trade and work together to analyze the costs and benefits of different trade interventions.
Students will analyze political cartoons that illustrate the relationship between trade protectionism and democratic politics.
This interactive economics lesson uses a simulation from the fantasy land of “Spheradell” to teach students about trade barriers (embargoes, quotas, standards, tariffs, and subsidies).
By exploring the impacts of the reversal of the Chevron deference, students will examine the connection between economics, public policy, and human progress and its effects on sustainable systems for the environment.
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