1. A Standard at a Time: Understanding World Geography Reporting Category #4: Economics and Science, Technology and Society WG.10C
WG.10.C compare the ways people satisfy their basic needs through the production of goods and services SUCH AS subsistence agriculture versus commercial agriculture or cottage industries versus commercial industries
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YSLETA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
SOCIAL STUDIES INSTRUCTIONAL TEAM
May, 2012

2. Production of Goods How are goods produced in different regions? Why?
WG.10.C compare the ways people satisfy their basic needs through the production of goods and services SUCH AS subsistence agriculture versus commercial agriculture or cottage industries versus commercial industries
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YSLETA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
SOCIAL STUDIES INSTRUCTIONAL TEAM

3. Which words are you familiar with, and which do you not yet know?
Production
Goods
Services
Subsistence
Agriculture
Commercial
Cottage Industry
Market-oriented
Industry

4. What are our basic needs?
SOURCE:
• • •

5. What are differences in how we meet our basic needs?
SOURCE:
Subsistence Agriculture
Commercial Agriculture
What differences do you notice in how food is being produced and for what purpose?
SOURCE: •

6. What are differences in how we meet our basic needs?
SOURCE:
Cottage Industry textile production
Commercial Industry textile production
What differences do you notice in how goods are being produced and for what purpose?
SOURCE:

7. What are differences in how we meet our basic needs?
SOURCE:
Subsistence
Commercial
What differences do you notice in how food is being prepared? Who are they feeding?
SOURCE: •

8. What are differences in who goods are produced for?
SOURCE:
Personal, or communal consumption
Subsistence
Market-oriented consumption
Commercial
How does who is being served affect production and service?
SOURCE: • • •

9. Where is “subsistence agriculture” still practiced?
SOURCE:
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10. What would you expect the standard of living to be like?
SOURCE:
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11. What are differences in how regions produce food and goods?
SOURCE:
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12. Let’s see what we know… Are you ready to answer, and which do you need a peek?
SUBSISTENCE
COMMERCIAL
Small one or two crop farming using manual labor
Large scale cash crops
Farmer grows for personal use to survive
Produce is grown exclusively for sale
Small amount of crops are used to barter or trade
Requires mechanization
Which regions are most likely to produce goods using commercial agriculture for market-oriented consumption?
F the Amazon basin
G northern and middle Africa
H New Zealand
J North America

13. Let’s see what we know… Which are you ready to answer, and which do you need a peek?
Much of the region of the Amazon basin in South America employs
A commercial production
B subsistence agriculture
C market-oriented
agriculture
D wheat production
Subsistence agriculture employs which of the following production methods?
F crop specialization
G shifting cultivation
H large scale mechanized harvesting
J commercial crop rotation

14. Talk to each other, and then talk to me…
WG.10.C compare the ways people satisfy their basic needs through the production of goods and services SUCH AS subsistence agriculture versus commercial agriculture or cottage industries versus commercial industries
How are goods produced in different regions? Why?
Use the word wall words to answer.

15. Resources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture