Georgia SS7E3

SS7E3 is a Georgia social studies standard. These are the elements under it.

• SS7E3.a

  Evaluate how literacy rates affect the standard of living.

• SS7E3.b

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

• SS7E3.c

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

• SS7E3.d

  Explain how the distribution of natural resources affects the economic development of Africa.

• SS7E3.e

  Describe the role of entrepreneurship.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students compare how education and training, capital goods, natural resources, and entrepreneurship affect economic growth. They identify evidence of each factor in Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can explain why having oil, skilled workers, roads, technology, or new businesses may raise GDP per capita. They can compare the three countries using specific evidence.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may assume that abundant natural resources always produce broad prosperity. They may confuse total GDP with GDP per capita or treat one factor, such as literacy, as the only cause of growth.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Choose Nigeria, South Africa, or Kenya. Name one growth factor that is strong and one that is limited, then explain each effect on GDP per capita.

1. 01

   Give groups country mats and evidence cards about schools, roads, resources, factories, and businesses, then have them sort and defend each placement.

2. 02

   Ask students to write which growth factor a government should fund first, using evidence from one of the three countries.

3. 03

   Play a mystery-country game where teams identify Nigeria, South Africa, or Kenya from clues about resources, workers, infrastructure, and businesses.

4. 04

   Have students compare recent World Bank data for literacy, GDP per capita, and natural resource exports across the three countries.

• 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.

• SS7E6

  Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.

• SS6E3

  Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico.