Our World is designed to introduce students to key aspects of global trade and to help them understand how most countries are economically interdependent.
The learning objectives listed beside each activity state the skills and knowledge the students will gain.
Activity One: The World in My Classroom The students identify imports within their own classroom and use a world map to find their sources. They discover that businesses trade– import and export–in a global economy.
Key Learning Objectives
The students will define import and export distinguish between domestic trade and global trade recognize evidence of global trade
Activity Two: Trading Places The students discover through a puzzle-solving activity that businesses often import and export goods and services to meet the wants and needs of the people in their countries.
Key Learning Objectives
The students will examine various reasons businesses trade natural, human, and capital resources identify supply and demand as reasons why people trade
Activity Three: Dollar for Dollar The students discuss how countries trade, and they are introduced to exchange rates. They engage in a trading activity that illustrates some of the complexities of global trade.
Key Learning Objectives
The students will identify the role of money in global trade compute currency conversions
Activity Four: Business Matters The students learn that different businesses struggle with different issues when trading globally. They discover international marketing tasks required by any business entering global markets.
Key Learning Objectives
The students will extract information from business case studies assimilate components of an international marketing strategy
Activity Five: Global Business Challenge The students present their international marketing strategies. They explain their product, price, promotion, and place decisions.
Key Learning Objectives
The students will demonstrate their knowledge of international trade
Our World enhances the students’ learning of the following concepts and skills:
Skills – Abstract reasoning • Collecting evidence • Constructing puzzles • Converting currencies • Critical listening • Distinguishing continents and countries • Drawing conclusions • Effective speaking • Injury • Listening • Map reading • Mathematical interpretation and computation • Note taking • Oral presentations • Relating text information to prior knowledge • Situational analysis • Teamwork
All JA programs have technology enhancements and are designed to support the skills and competencies outlined in the SCANS (Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) report. These programs also augment the school-based, work-based, and connecting activities for communities with school-to-work initiatives.
define import and export