Georgia SS6E6.c

Social Studies6th GradeLatin America and Canada

The Standard

Explain the relationship between investment in capital goods (factories, machinery, and technology) 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 Canada.

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain how factories, machinery, and technology can help Canadian workers produce more goods and services. They connect higher production to possible growth in GDP per capita.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can identify a capital good and describe how it raises output per worker. Given simple data, they can explain why added equipment may increase GDP per capita.
Common Misconceptions: Students may confuse capital goods with money or items bought for personal use. They may treat GDP and GDP per capita as identical. They may assume every investment automatically increases production.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: A Canadian factory adds robotic equipment, production rises, and population stays constant. Explain what will likely happen to GDP per capita and why.

Lesson moves

Run two paper-airplane production rounds, first by hand and then with templates and rulers, and compare output per worker.
Ask students to write how new harvesting machines could affect workers, production, and GDP per capita on a Canadian wheat farm.
Play a card-matching game connecting Canadian industries, capital investments, production changes, and likely effects on GDP per capita.
Show a photo of an automated Canadian sawmill and have students identify the investment and predict its effect on output.

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