Georgia SS6E3

SS6E3 is a Georgia social studies standard. These are the elements under it.

• SS6E3.a

  Evaluate how literacy rates affect the standard of living.

• SS6E3.b

  Explain the relationship between investment in human capital (education and training) and gross domestic product (GDP per capita).

• SS6E3.c

  Explain the relationship between investment in capital goods (factories, machinery, and technology) and gross domestic product (GDP per capita).

• SS6E3.d

  Describe the role of natural resources in a country's economy.

• SS6E3.e

  Describe the role of entrepreneurship.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify how literacy, human capital, capital goods, natural resources, and entrepreneurship can raise or limit economic growth. They compare these factors in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico, using evidence to explain differences.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can sort country evidence by growth factor and explain a likely effect on GDP or living standards. The student can compare two countries without claiming that one factor alone determines growth.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students often label factory workers as capital goods, although workers are human capital and machines are capital goods. They may assume abundant natural resources guarantee growth or that one GDP figure shows how every citizen lives. They may also treat each factor as simply present or absent rather than compare its strength and effects.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Mexico opens a new auto plant, Cuba trains more doctors, and Brazil expands iron-ore exports. Choose two examples, identify each growth factor, and explain one likely effect on output or income.

1. 01

   Give groups country mats and evidence cards, then have them sort each card under literacy, human capital, capital goods, resources, or entrepreneurship.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: Which growth factor could most improve Cuba’s economy, and what evidence supports your choice?

3. 03

   Play a four-corner game where students move to the growth factor best matched to each Brazil, Cuba, or Mexico clue.

4. 04

   Inspect labels on coffee, sugar, cars, and iron products, then connect each product to resources, workers, equipment, and businesses in these countries.

• SS7E3

  Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya.

• SS7E9

  Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in China, India, Japan, South Korea and North Korea

• SS6E9

  Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia.

• SS6E1.c

  Compare and contrast the basic types of economic systems found in Mexico, Cuba, and Brazil.