Basic Economic Concepts – Common Core Lessons & Activities

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How to Use the Basic Economic Concepts - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.

Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Basic Economic Concepts - Common Core Lessons and Activities book includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Basic Economic Concepts - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Needs and Wants: Reading Informational Text G
Exchange & Money: Reading Informational Text
Scarcity, Choices, & Costs: Reading Informational Text
Getting in Line: Primary Source Analysis
Cost & Benefit of Choices: Graphical Analysis G
Communities: Consumers & Producers: Reading Informational Text
"A Double Hold-up": Primary Source Analysis
Factors of Production: Graphical Analysis G
Incentives: Reading Informational Text
Supply and Demand: Data Analysis
Economic Flowchart: Vocabulary G
Factors Affecting Supply & Demand: Compare & Contrast GO1
Economic Consequences: Cause & Effect G
Adam Smith & Free Markets: Reading Informational Text
Economist Quotations: Summarizing Information G
Economic Systems: Reading Informational Text GO2
Entrepreneurship: Writing
Banks, Savers, & Borrowers: Reading Informational Text
Government & Taxes: Reading informational Text G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)