Global Interdependence and Trade Lesson | English & Spanish

Trade decisions affect more than the business making the sale. Help students explain why countries trade, compare opportunity costs and weigh effects on consumers, workers and producers before defending a policy choice. North Carolina examples connect global trade to local production, jobs and imported inputs.

Students compare free trade with protectionism and work with a partner on a fictional tariff decision, supporting their recommendation with evidence. Teacher guidance explains the trade-offs and keeps the fictional tariff separate from current law. Start with the teacher guide and allow several class periods. Scenario and numerical examples are hypothetical where identified.

Included:

• 49-slide Main and 64-slide Later Meetings presentations in editable PPTX, screen PDF and complete US Letter landscape PDF.

• Guided instruction, retrieval practice, a 15-item quiz, a complete six-step policy decision activity and an applied reading with ten questions.

• Editable DOCX and print-ready PDF student and teacher materials.

• Color and LowInk student alternatives, plus English-only and bilingual versions of the full activity.

• Full lectures, answer keys, teaching guidance, sources, bilingual speaker notes, slide text and navigation.

• Kalam and Open Sans font files and licenses.

English appears above bold Spanish in bilingual formatted materials; plain-text companions do not retain bold styling. Choose one activity language version and one ink option per task. These are alternatives, not extra assignments.

The full student print route is 26 pages with the bilingual activity or 22 with the English-only activity. Printing files separately duplex uses 15 or 13 sheets respectively. These totals exclude notebook paper, optional vocabulary reference, teacher pages and slide printouts. Students copy the first 11 vocabulary terms and definitions on their own paper; six additional glossary entries are optional reference.

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High school Economics and Personal Finance. Unit 1, Lesson 4. This lesson is also sold within the Unit 1 bundle and complete EPF curriculum. Those bundles have not yet been verified to contain this refreshed version. Check the bundle’s current contents before purchasing separately to avoid overlapping purchases.