Curated OER
International Trade Reality Worksheet
In this international trade worksheet, students respond to 21 short answer questions regarding free trade, trade deficits, and trade balance.
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How Many Types of Rice Are There?
Sixth graders investigate the cultivation and variation of rice around the world. In this food instructional activity, 6th graders read about the process of bringing rice from a farm to your dinner plate and which types of rice...
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Global Geography of Economics: The Indiana Steel Industry
Learners are introduced to how steel is made and investigate the importance of the steel industry. They participate in a role-play that explores the concepts of taxes, tariffs and imports vs. domestic production.
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Global Geography of Economics: the Indiana Steel Industry
Students research and identify positive and negative effects of imported steel on the Indiana steel industry.
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An Immigrant's Journey
Students collect photos of immigrants coming to the United States. They write fictional journal entries for one of the photographs.
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Historical Interview Project
Students practice effectively interviewing a subject and then use that interview to create a movie.
Curated OER
The American Revolution: 1775-1783
Casting the American Revolution into a bright, informative light, this presentation details many key facts about the strategies and decision during the revolutionary campaigns. The latter half of the slides prompt viewers to examine why...
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Lesson Plan on the Civil War
Fifth graders identify events leading to the Civil War and explain the impact the events had on northern and southern societies.
US Census Bureau
Uscb: u.s. Trade Balance With Italy
Charts make it easy to read the yearly trade (both imports and exports) in U.S. dollars wtih Italy.
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University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: Total Value of u.s Imports and Exports [Pdf]
Chart of total value of imports and exports of selected years from 1790 to 1900 in dollars. There are also questions that go along with the charts/graphs.
US Energy Information Administration
U.s. Energy Information Administration: Azerbaijan
This interesting site talks about the natural resources in Azerbaijan. Read about this country's oil and natural gas reserves and the importance of these to the economy and politics.
Institute for Policy Studies
Foreign Policy in Focus: Export Import Bank
This article covers the functions of the EXIM Bank, "an independent U.S. government agency established in 1934 to create jobs through exports." (Volume 4, Number 18, July 1999)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Carnegie Endowment: China & Intellectual Property Rights [Pdf]
In this paper the author argues that China is still weak on enforcing intellectual property laws and that foreign companies should take steps to protect their rights in the Chinese legal system. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Ethiopia: Economy
A look at the agricultural economy of Ethiopia and a discussion of potential growth in other areas. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.
PBS
Pbs: America 1900: The China Market
Read this brief excerpt of a Cornell historian regarding the importance of the Chinese market for American textiles in 1900.