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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 10

Trade Around the World

Resources, money and trade

What your child practices

Natural and human resources, the three economic questions, surplus and scarcity, how communities earn a living, money in other countries, and how ships, planes and the internet help communities trade.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 2.E3.1; 2.E5.1 · goods made around the world, and how resources shape what countries produce and trade

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Communities trade to get things they cannot make or grow.
  2. Exports are sent out. Imports come in.
  3. A surplus means having more than you need.

Example: Goods sent out of a country to sell are… “Ex” means out. Goods going out are exports. Answer: exports

Trade Around the World in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 5 of 10 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after Culture & Traditions and before Communities Compared.

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: Arizona Department of Education

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

    Coffee grows well in warm, high places such as…

    • the moon
    • Antarctica and Norway
    • the Arctic
    • Colombia and Ethiopia

  2. Question 2

    Big container ships help communities…

    • make rain
    • trade goods across oceans
    • vote
    • build mountains

  3. Question 3

    Goods sent out of a country to sell are…

    • imports
    • exports
    • taxes
    • rights

  4. Question 4

    Bananas grow where it is warm. How do they reach stores in New York?

    • by bike
    • by ship, train and truck
    • they grow in the store
    • by mail carrier on foot

  5. Question 5

    A tour guide in Italy provides a…

    • map key
    • good
    • service
    • tax

  6. Question 6

    Specializing means a community…

    • makes what it is best at
    • never trades
    • has no jobs
    • makes everything itself

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