GDP and Pizza: Economics for Life Online Course for Teachers and Students

GDP and Pizza: Economics for Life is designed to help students in civics, economics and other social studies classes grasp challenging economic content – and to explain why these topics are important for citizens to understand.

The course includes numerous interactive checks for understanding, video clips of a Fed economist explaining concepts and everyday examples that will make sense to students. In addition, students complete a pre- and post-test to assess learning.

Section One covers:

• the definition Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• the components of GDP
• per capita GDP

Section Two covers:

• real vs. nominal GDP
• levels vs. percentage change
• importance of a growing economy
• trend growth rate
• uses for GDP data
• automatic stabilizers

Also view the GDP and Pizza Short Courses for Teachers and Students.
The short courses are:

• GDP: What Is It?
• GDP Measurement and Growth
• GDP: Policy

This lesson received the 2015 Curriculum Gold Award from the National Association of Economic Educators. Read more about this and other awards.