Economic Adventure: Trade and Map Quest!

Category	Learning Goal	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4
New York Portrait of a Graduate	Creative Innovator	I can recognize the difference between a want and a need by identifying items my country needs for our trade simulation, and I can describe why these items are important for my country's success in the activity I can also use my imagination to suggest simple ideas for trading with other countries, even if I need help from my classmates or teacher to develop these ideas further.	I can creatively use scenario cards to role-play as a country in a global trade simulation, demonstrating my understanding of imports and exports While engaging in trade negotiations, I can identify and describe important resources and reflect on how these affect my country's ability to produce goods, helping me differentiate between wants and needs and comparing the costs and benefits of trade decisions.	I can creatively organize a role-play skit to show how my country's natural resources and specialization impact our trade partnerships I can use a map to explain how we import and export goods, and I can describe how making trade decisions helps or challenges my country and other countries I can clearly describe how choosing different limited resources affects our trade agreements in a way that makes sense to others.	I can creatively design a global supply chain map that shows how a product travels from raw material to consumer, demonstrating my understanding of trade routes and resource allocation I can confidently present at the Trade Fair with an informational booth about my country's trade practices, using engaging visual aids and stories I can role-play international trade negotiations, showing how specialization and resources affect trade decisions I can distinguish between wants and needs and use economic reasoning to make decisions using the maps and products I created.
New York Portrait of a Graduate	Critical Thinker	I try my best to think about why countries trade and use what I know about wants and needs to decide which trades are helpful I can point out some resources that are important for making things and share my ideas about why countries choose to trade them When we do the role-play, I talk about what I think is good or not so good about a trade and give reasons why it might help or not help people in different places.	I can identify and categorize the resources my assigned country relies on, distinguishing between wants and needs I can thoughtfully compare different countries' trade decisions by recognizing how each country's resources impact their exports, and I explain the costs and benefits of trading these goods Through the simulation, I make connections between the global trade routes and the choice of products being exchanged.	I can identify and explain the resources my assigned country has and how those resources help create products that are traded globally I can use maps to show where products come from and explain how imports and exports affect people's choices.	I can thoughtfully analyze and recognize the difference between wants and needs by categorizing resources essential to my country and my assigned role in the Global Trade Simulation I can compare the costs and benefits of trade decisions, considering limited resources and using maps to track trade routes, demonstrating a deep understanding of how international trade impacts consumer choices and global connections.
New York Portrait of a Graduate	Effective Communicator	I can clearly explain the difference between a "want" and a "need" and describe important resources for my country I use maps to show where products come from and understand how they travel to different places I can talk about how trading with other countries affects what we buy and use communication skills to share my ideas with my classmates and family.	I can explain the differences between wants and needs and identify important resources for my country using clear examples I can communicate my trade negotiation ideas confidently and listen to my classmates to understand different perspectives, sharing how different resources impact trade decisions.	I can confidently present my Global Supply Chain Map by explaining how different countries trade goods and how resources like money and materials are used in these trades I can describe why some items are imported or exported and share examples of choices people make based on what they need or want.	I can confidently present my country’s trade practices at the Global Goods Gallery by clearly explaining the trade routes and how specialization affects international goods movement I can describe how different resources from my country are important to global trade, distinguishing between wants and needs in my presentation I also use economic reasoning to compare the benefits and costs of trade decisions during the role-play skit, demonstrating my understanding of international trade negotiations and their impact on consumers.
New York Portrait of a Graduate	Global Citizen	I can identify the resources my country has and understand why they are important or useful I can also recognize some products we need to bring in from other countries and explain why they are needed.	I can identify and explain how countries use their unique resources like land, materials, and workers to produce goods, and I can describe the difference between things we want and things we need when talking about trade.	I can explain how different countries, like China and Brazil, trade goods by pointing them out on a map and showing what they send and receive I can describe how the resources each country has, like oil or rubber, help them make certain products I can also talk about the different choices consumers have because of trade and why those choices matter.	I can confidently present my understanding of global trade by comparing the wants and needs of different countries using the trade simulation I use maps to accurately trace trade routes and identify important resources for each country In my role-play skit, I effectively show how specialization impacts trade negotiations and demonstrate the effects of trade decisions on consumer choices.
New York Portrait of a Graduate	Reflective and Future Focused	I can share one idea about how a product moves from one country to another and explain why it is important to understand where things come from.	I can identify important resources my country has and explain why they are useful to my community and the world I show how different resources, like natural materials and workers, affect trade decisions by comparing the benefits and costs of trading certain goods.	I can use a map to find China and another country to show where goods come from, and I can create a 'Global Supply Chain Map' to trace a product's journey I can explain how this trade affects what consumers like me can buy, and I think about how different resources make a country better at making certain things I also talk about how making good choices needs understanding where things come from and why they're important.	I can thoughtfully reflect on my role-playing experience as a country in the simulation and explain how specializing in certain goods helped my country trade effectively with others I demonstrate understanding by describing the resources important to my country and can compare and contrast the benefits and costs of trade decisions Using maps, I can track global trade routes and identify how imports and exports impact consumer choices, showing how informed decisions can benefit my community and the global economy.

New York Portrait of a Graduate

Creative Innovator

I can recognize the difference between a want and a need by identifying items my country needs for our trade simulation, and I can describe why these items are important for my country's success in the activity
I can also use my imagination to suggest simple ideas for trading with other countries, even if I need help from my classmates or teacher to develop these ideas further.

I can creatively use scenario cards to role-play as a country in a global trade simulation, demonstrating my understanding of imports and exports
While engaging in trade negotiations, I can identify and describe important resources and reflect on how these affect my country's ability to produce goods, helping me differentiate between wants and needs and comparing the costs and benefits of trade decisions.

I can creatively organize a role-play skit to show how my country's natural resources and specialization impact our trade partnerships
I can use a map to explain how we import and export goods, and I can describe how making trade decisions helps or challenges my country and other countries
I can clearly describe how choosing different limited resources affects our trade agreements in a way that makes sense to others.

I can creatively design a global supply chain map that shows how a product travels from raw material to consumer, demonstrating my understanding of trade routes and resource allocation
I can confidently present at the Trade Fair with an informational booth about my country's trade practices, using engaging visual aids and stories
I can role-play international trade negotiations, showing how specialization and resources affect trade decisions
I can distinguish between wants and needs and use economic reasoning to make decisions using the maps and products I created.

New York Portrait of a Graduate

Critical Thinker

I try my best to think about why countries trade and use what I know about wants and needs to decide which trades are helpful
I can point out some resources that are important for making things and share my ideas about why countries choose to trade them
When we do the role-play, I talk about what I think is good or not so good about a trade and give reasons why it might help or not help people in different places.

I can identify and categorize the resources my assigned country relies on, distinguishing between wants and needs
I can thoughtfully compare different countries' trade decisions by recognizing how each country's resources impact their exports, and I explain the costs and benefits of trading these goods
Through the simulation, I make connections between the global trade routes and the choice of products being exchanged.

I can identify and explain the resources my assigned country has and how those resources help create products that are traded globally
I can use maps to show where products come from and explain how imports and exports affect people's choices.

I can thoughtfully analyze and recognize the difference between wants and needs by categorizing resources essential to my country and my assigned role in the Global Trade Simulation
I can compare the costs and benefits of trade decisions, considering limited resources and using maps to track trade routes, demonstrating a deep understanding of how international trade impacts consumer choices and global connections.

New York Portrait of a Graduate

Effective Communicator

I can clearly explain the difference between a "want" and a "need" and describe important resources for my country
I use maps to show where products come from and understand how they travel to different places
I can talk about how trading with other countries affects what we buy and use communication skills to share my ideas with my classmates and family.

I can explain the differences between wants and needs and identify important resources for my country using clear examples
I can communicate my trade negotiation ideas confidently and listen to my classmates to understand different perspectives, sharing how different resources impact trade decisions.

I can confidently present my Global Supply Chain Map by explaining how different countries trade goods and how resources like money and materials are used in these trades
I can describe why some items are imported or exported and share examples of choices people make based on what they need or want.

I can confidently present my country’s trade practices at the Global Goods Gallery by clearly explaining the trade routes and how specialization affects international goods movement
I can describe how different resources from my country are important to global trade, distinguishing between wants and needs in my presentation
I also use economic reasoning to compare the benefits and costs of trade decisions during the role-play skit, demonstrating my understanding of international trade negotiations and their impact on consumers.

New York Portrait of a Graduate

Global Citizen

I can identify the resources my country has and understand why they are important or useful
I can also recognize some products we need to bring in from other countries and explain why they are needed.

I can identify and explain how countries use their unique resources like land, materials, and workers to produce goods, and I can describe the difference between things we want and things we need when talking about trade.

I can explain how different countries, like China and Brazil, trade goods by pointing them out on a map and showing what they send and receive
I can describe how the resources each country has, like oil or rubber, help them make certain products
I can also talk about the different choices consumers have because of trade and why those choices matter.

I can confidently present my understanding of global trade by comparing the wants and needs of different countries using the trade simulation
I use maps to accurately trace trade routes and identify important resources for each country
In my role-play skit, I effectively show how specialization impacts trade negotiations and demonstrate the effects of trade decisions on consumer choices.

New York Portrait of a Graduate

Reflective and Future Focused

I can share one idea about how a product moves from one country to another and explain why it is important to understand where things come from.

I can identify important resources my country has and explain why they are useful to my community and the world
I show how different resources, like natural materials and workers, affect trade decisions by comparing the benefits and costs of trading certain goods.

I can use a map to find China and another country to show where goods come from, and I can create a 'Global Supply Chain Map' to trace a product's journey
I can explain how this trade affects what consumers like me can buy, and I think about how different resources make a country better at making certain things
I also talk about how making good choices needs understanding where things come from and why they're important.

I can thoughtfully reflect on my role-playing experience as a country in the simulation and explain how specializing in certain goods helped my country trade effectively with others
I demonstrate understanding by describing the resources important to my country and can compare and contrast the benefits and costs of trade decisions
Using maps, I can track global trade routes and identify how imports and exports impact consumer choices, showing how informed decisions can benefit my community and the global economy.