Georgia SS7E9.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 China, India, Japan, South Korea and North Korea
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how factories, machinery, and technology can help workers produce more goods or services. They connect higher output per worker to possible growth in GDP per capita.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can trace a clear chain from investment to greater productivity, higher output, and increased GDP per capita. They can apply the chain to China, India, Japan, South Korea, or North Korea.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think capital goods means money or products bought by consumers. They may confuse total GDP with GDP per capita or assume every investment automatically raises output.
How to Assess It
- Give this exit prompt: “A company buys faster machines for its workers. Explain in three steps how this investment could affect GDP per capita.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Run two paper-airplane production rounds, first with instructions only, then with templates and rulers, and compare planes made per minute.
Write a four-link chain showing how a new factory robot could affect worker output and GDP per capita.
Sort investment cards into capital goods or consumer goods, then predict each capital good’s likely effect on productivity.
List technology used by a local business, then explain how one tool can raise output per worker and possibly GDP per capita.
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