Enrichment/Extension

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS SCAVENGER HUNT

Overview

Exports and imports are a major factor in our economy. In the year 2000, U.S. businesses exported more than $776 billion worth of goods and services to people in 197 nations around the world. At the same time, we purchased, or imported $1.2 trillion worth of goods and services from other nations. Our largest export customers were Canada, Mexico, Japan and Germany.  Discover the economic  relationships between their families and people in other nations of the world. The activity is conducted at your home, where you will undertake a scavenger hunt to find goods around the house that have been imported as well as goods made in the U.S. that can be exported to people in other nations. You will share what you found with the rest of the class. As an assessment activity, you will use an interdependence web to illustrate the economic relationships between people in the U.S. and other countries of the world.

Objectives

·         * Define imports as goods or services purchased in this country from sellers in other countries.

·        *  Define exports as goods or services produced in this country and sold to buyers in other countries.

·        *  Identify goods produced in the U.S. that can be exported to people in other countries.

·         * Identify goods produced in other countries that can be purchased by people in the U.S.

·         * Explain how people in the U.S. and other countries of the world are interdependent.

·        *  Demonstrate how different currencies are exchanged between importers and exporters.

     Click on the link below for the form to fill in:
    Imports/Exports Scavenger Hunt Form