Georgia SS7E3.c
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 Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya.
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how spending on factories, machinery, and technology can help workers produce more goods and services. They connect higher productivity to possible growth in GDP per person in Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a short country profile, students identify the capital investment and trace its likely effect on production and income per person. They also explain why investment may not raise output immediately.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse capital goods with money or consumer goods. They may assume any new factory or technology automatically raises everyone’s income equally and immediately.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A Kenyan farm buys modern irrigation equipment. In two steps, explain how this investment could affect productivity and GDP per person.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Sort picture cards into capital goods and consumer goods, then arrange selected cards into an investment, productivity, and GDP cause chain.
Write a four-sentence response to this prompt: Why might new factory machinery raise GDP per person but not improve every worker’s income?
Play a country investment game where teams choose among roads, machines, phones, and luxury goods, then justify which choices could increase production.
Compare photos of farming, mining, or manufacturing equipment from Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya, then predict how each tool affects worker output.
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