Who is someone that you depend on?
Why are you dependent on him/her?
You will all have different resources, but you must
acquire these things for your society:
◦ Money/Capital — make five rectangles of green paper
◦ Natural Resources/Oil — make 3 black circles
◦ Shelter — make a brown square and attach a white triangle
to the top of the square.
◦ Industry/Factories — Make a five-link paper chain, with
each link being a different color.
◦ Education — Make a four-page book out of four different
colors.
Groups will appoint 1 ambassador who can meet and
trade with different societies. Only this person can
speak with other groups. The other 2 members must
construct the goods.
You have 15 minutes to make everything you need
for your society.
Trade is one way that nations solve the
problem of scarcity (not having enough
resources for your wants/needs). They trade
to obtain goods/services that they cannot
easily produce.
Comparative Advantage – Some countries are
better suited to produce products. If you had
more of something, that is your comparative
advantage
◦ What was your group’s comparative advantage?
Exports – goods sold to other countries.
Imports – goods purchased from other
countries.
Balance of Trade – difference between value of
a nation’s imports and exports
Favorable Balance of Trade: exporting more
than you import
Trade Surplus – value of exports bigger than value of
imports
Trade Deficit – value of imports bigger than value of
exports
Tariff – tax on imported good (usually to make people
buy domestic (US) goods)
What makes a country
developing?
Less educated, healthy
Less Manufacturing,
Less Technology, Low
GDP
Have More Natural
Resources
POOR
What makes a country
developed?
Educated, healthy
More Industry, &
Technology, High GDP
Consume many natural
resources (oil)
RICH
International Monetary Fund & World Bank:
offers monetary advice & loans to developing
countries.
Global interdependence: nations depend on
each other
Richer nations sell products to obtain natural
resources from poorer nations.
Poorer nations need food, technology, and
money from richer nations
Complete a vocabulary map on outsourcing
AND globalization.
Definition in your own words
Vocab Word
Why is it important OR
Give an example
Use it in a sentence
Draw it!
Read about different global institutions such
as the, EU (p567), World Trade Organization
(p569), NAFTA (p569), and United Nations
(p617). Write a 2-3 sentence mission
statement that summarizes what each
organization was formed to do.
Read about the different theories of
protectionism and free trade
Complete this reading strategy:
◦ Write the most important sentence from each
paragraph
◦ List the people that have each opinion:
protectionism and free trade
◦ Explain what each theory believes about tariffs
Complete the Semantic Analysis Chart on Free
Trade & Protectionism