Georgia SS6E12.b
The Standard
Explain the relationship between investment in human capital (education and training) and gross domestic product (GDP per capita).
Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies · Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in Australia.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect spending on education and job training to stronger worker skills and higher productivity in Australia. They explain how greater productivity can raise GDP per capita while recognizing that other factors also affect economic growth.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can trace a clear chain from education or training to improved skills, greater output, and higher GDP per capita. They use Australian data or an example to support the connection.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse GDP per capita with total GDP or an individual worker’s salary. They may think human capital means buildings and machines, or assume education alone guarantees economic growth.
How to Assess It
- Give students this prompt: “Australia expands technical training for health care workers. Explain how this could affect worker productivity and GDP per capita.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have groups arrange cards labeled education spending, stronger skills, higher productivity, and rising GDP per capita into a cause-and-effect chain.
Ask students to write: “How could training Australian mine workers to use new equipment affect output per worker and GDP per capita?”
Run a matching race where students pair education and training examples with likely changes in worker skills, productivity, and GDP per capita.
Graph Australian school completion and GDP per capita data from several years, then write two observations about the relationship.
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