Comparative Economic Systems and Per Capita GDP

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This lesson was created by Darrell Burmeister (Nodaway Valley School District) for students from ninth to twelfth grade. As a result of this lesson plan, students will understand how capitalism has spread around the world as countries try to develop their economies.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Human Geography

Economics

Theme

Economic

Cartography/Maps

Cultural/Social

Region

None specified

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

Movement

Region

National Geographic Standards

1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

3. How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface

4. The physical and human characteristics of places

6. How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions

11. The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth's surface

18. How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

EC 2. Understand the role of scarcity and economic trade-offs and how economic conditions impact people's lives

EC 6. Understand the local, state, regional, national, and international factors that create patterns of interdependence in the global economy

EC 7. Understand the impact of advancing technologies on the global economy

GE 2. Understand how physical and human characteristics create and define regions

GE 3. Understand how human factors and the distribution of resources affect the development of society and the movement of populations

GE 6. Understand how culture affects the interaction of human populations through time and space

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Comparative Economic Systems and Per Capita GDP