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Trade from Mirage Mesa

Follow a Mirage Mesa family business as it imports ingredients and exports date bites to customers in other countries.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: Social Studies
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students explain why communities and countries trade goods.
Students identify goods as imports or exports from the viewpoint of a country.
Students use a shipment graph to describe exports to other countries.

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Read the passage and discuss whose viewpoint is used when a good is called an import or export. Have students cite passage and graph evidence in the final response.

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C3 Framework standard covered

ECO.3.4

Explain why communities and countries trade and describe imports and exports.

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Trade from Mirage Mesa

Learn how a desert family business imports and exports goods.

Read about the family business

Read the story about trade in Mirage Mesa. Then answer the questions.

Dune Door Date Kitchen

Mirage Mesa is a desert city with hot, dry summers. Leena Patel's family owns Dune Door Date Kitchen. Date palms grow well near the city's irrigated farms, so the family buys dates from nearby growers. They wash the fruit, remove the pits, and make chewy date bites in their small kitchen.

The kitchen does not grow every ingredient it needs. The family buys cocoa from a supplier in Ghana and cinnamon from a supplier in Sri Lanka. These goods enter the United States from other countries. From the viewpoint of the United States, the cocoa and cinnamon are imports. Trading lets Dune Door use ingredients that are not produced nearby in the same way.

Dune Door sells some date bites to local stores, but the family makes more than local shoppers can buy. A food distributor carries boxes of date bites to customers in Canada, Mexico, and Japan. From the viewpoint of the United States, those boxes are exports because they leave the country to be sold elsewhere.

Leena says trade connects people who have different resources, skills, and customers. Cocoa grows best in places with a different climate from Mirage Mesa. The desert farms are well suited to growing dates, and the kitchen workers know how to turn them into a snack. By trading, buyers get goods they want, and sellers find more people who want to buy their goods.

Why does Dune Door trade with people in other countries?

A. To get ingredients and reach customers in different places
B. To make other countries grow more dates
C. To keep local stores from selling date bites
D. To replace the date growers near Mirage Mesa

Match each good to its trade movement for the United States. Use the story and the graph.

Cocoa
Cinnamon
Date bites in the largest weekly shipment
Date bites in the smallest weekly shipment

A. Export to Canada
B. Import from Ghana
C. Export to Japan
D. Import from Sri Lanka

Word bank: imports · exports · customers · distributors

Goods brought into a country from another country are called .

Circle the TWO details that help explain why Dune Door trades.

The family makes more date bites than local shoppers can buy.The family makes date bites in a small kitchen.The family sells some date bites to local stores.Cocoa grows best in a different climate from Mirage Mesa.

Put the story's production and trade steps in order.

The family buys dates from nearby growers.The family makes date bites.A distributor carries boxes to other countries.Customers in other countries buy the date bites.

First	Second	Third	Fourth

Study the export record

Use the graph to answer questions about Dune Door's weekly exports.

Which country received the most boxes that week?

A. Japan
B. Mexico
C. Canada
D. The United States

What does the graph suggest about Dune Door's trade that week?

A. The business imported the largest shipment from Japan.
B. The business sold the same number of boxes to each country.
C. The business sent its largest shipment to Mexico.
D. The business sold date bites to customers in more than one country.

Word bank: imports · exports · resources · customers

Dune Door's date bites sent to Canada are from the viewpoint of the United States.

Apply the trade ideas

Use the story, the graph, and what you know about imports and exports.

Sort each good from the viewpoint of the United States.

Cocoa entering the United States from GhanaDate bites leaving the United States for MexicoCinnamon entering the United States from Sri LankaDate bites leaving the United States for Canada

Import	Export

10.

A desert community has stone but few trees. Which trade choice best fits the idea in the story?

A. Import more stone from the same community.
B. Import lumber from a place with many trees.
C. Export lumber that the community does not have.
D. Stop trading so both places use fewer goods.

11.

Suppose Dune Door could no longer buy cocoa from Ghana. Which result is most likely?

A. The family would have less of one ingredient for its recipe.
B. The date farms would receive more cocoa from Mirage Mesa.
C. The family would export cocoa grown in its desert kitchen.
D. Customers in Canada would begin growing dates for the kitchen.

12.

Circle the TWO conclusions supported by the story.

Trade can connect buyers and sellers in different countries.A country can import a good that is difficult to produce nearby.Countries that trade stop producing their own goods.Trade keeps a business from selling to local stores.

13.

Which statement best compares an import and an export for the United States?

A. An import is made locally, while an export is grown on a farm.
B. An import goes to another country, while an export stays nearby.
C. An import is bought by a seller, while an export is grown by a buyer.
D. An import comes into the country, while an export leaves it.

14.

Explain why Dune Door trades with other countries. Use at least two details from the passage or graph. Include one example of an import and one example of an export.