Here is a hands-on activity where your class members will discover different ways to measure the government's financial situation and work to add data and redraw graphs in order to calculate the ratio of gross federal debt held by the public to GDP.

Concepts

gross domestic product

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Additional Tags

gdp, federal debt, federal surplus, federal deficit, social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Consider going through process as a whole group by projecting website and executing steps together as a class

Pros

• Walks learners step-by-step through process of working with website
• Opportunity to work with technology and practice working with data and graphs

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.9