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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 15

Alabama's Resources & Trade

Exports, imports, supply and demand

What your child practices

How Alabama uses its natural resources (cotton, pine forests, coal, water power), goods it exports and imports, producers and consumers, and how scarcity affects supply, demand and prices.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 2.4; 2.5; 2.6 · production and distribution, imports and exports, scarcity, and how Alabama uses its resources

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Exports are goods sent out to other countries. Imports come in.
  2. Resources become products: cotton into cloth, peanuts into peanut butter.
  3. Ships load and unload goods at the Port of Mobile.

Example: Goods made in Alabama and sold to other countries are… “Ex” means out. Goods going out are exports. Answer: exports

Alabama's Resources & Trade in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 7 of 15 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after State & National Government and before Regions of the United States.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    If a farm grows far more peaches than people want, the price will probably…

    • go down
    • go up
    • never change
    • become a million dollars

  2. Question 2

    Goods brought into the United States from other countries are…

    • imports
    • chores
    • exports
    • services

  3. Question 3

    Alabama farmers grow cotton, which is made into…

    • cloth and clothing
    • glass
    • paper clips
    • steel

  4. Question 4

    A loaf of bread is a…

    • service
    • vote
    • tax
    • good

  5. Question 5

    Distribution means…

    • moving goods from producers to stores and buyers
    • growing crops
    • voting
    • saving money

  6. Question 6

    Water held back by a dam can be turned into electricity and sent to…

    • homes and businesses
    • the moon
    • nowhere
    • the ocean floor

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