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Trade With China - Curriculum
Standards |
CONNECTION TO THE CURRICULUM: Economic development in the United States after
independence.
| Lesson |
Activities |
Format |
NCSS Standards* |
1.Trade Routes and
Trading Strategies |
1. Exploring Mercantilism
2. Early Trade Routes to China
3. Developing a Trading Strategy
4. Write an essay about the
developing U.S. economy |
1. Class Discussion
2. Groups of Three
3. Partners
4. Individual Work |
1. III,VI, VII
2. III, IX
3. II, VII, X
4. II, VI, VII |
2.Economics of the
China Trade |
1. Profits and Commodities of the
China Trade
2. Supply and Demand
3. Putting the China Trade in Context
4. Getting Rich in the China Trade |
1. Class Discussion
2. & 3. Individual,
Groups, or Class
4. Individual |
1. I, III, VII
2. VII, IX
3. II, VII, IX
4. VII, IX, X |
3.Contrasting Views
of Trade |
1. American Ideas About Trade
2. European Economic Traditions
3. Emperor Qianlong’s Response |
1. Class Discussion
2. Group Work
3. Partners |
1. I,V,VII
2. I, II, V, VII
3. I, V, VII, IX |
4.Life on a Merchant
Ship |
1. Imagining Life on a Clipper Ship
2. Contemporary Accounts of Life
on a Clipper Ship |
1. Class Discussion
2. Individual or
Group |
1. II, VIII
2. II, V, VIII |
*The Roman numerals correspond to the ten thematic strands defined in Curriculum
Standards for Social Studies, Bulletin 89, National Council for the Social Studies,
1994.
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