Starter: What country's GDP or Gross Domestic Product - the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period - is the same as Virginia’s?
1.How accurate was your prediction?
2.Are you proud of Virginia?
3.Which state-country GDP comparison most surprised you?
4.What does this map tell you about the relative wealth of the US?
5.Should Arkansas be embarrassed?
6.If California were its own country, what rank would it's GDP be?
7.Based on this map, what adjective would you use to describe our nation's wealth?
8.Explain the effect of the Trump presidency on the U.S. GDP now and in the future.
9.What country's GDP is closest to that of the USA?
10.What questions do you have about all this?
11.Why do you think the US is so wealthy?
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