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How to Use this 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, presentation, 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!
The
Personal Finance - Common Core Lessons and Activities is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.
How to Use The
Personal Finance - 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!
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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 it to 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. The
Personal Finance - Common Core Lessons and Activities book includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• And More!
The Table of Contents for the
Personal Finance - Common Core Lessons and Activities include:
Needs and Wants: Reading Informational Text
Ranking Needs and Wants: Primary Source Analysis
Cost and Benefit of Choices: Graphical Analysis
Personal Finance Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
Earning Income: Reading Informational Text
Income and Education: Data Analysis
Entrepreneur vs. Employee: Compare and Contrast GO1
Basic Services of Banks: Reading Informational Text
Borrowing and Credit: Reading Informational Text
Advertising Claims: Primary Source Analysis
Methods of Spending Money: Compare and Contrast G
Comparison Shopping: Graphical Analysis G
Climbing Out of Debt: Primary Source Analysis
Understanding Taxes: Reading Informational Text
Types of Taxes: Graphic Organizer G
Quotes About Life Insurance: Comparing Primary Sources
Problem-Solution-Results: Graphic Organizer GO9
Saving Money and Budgeting: Reading Informational Text
Budget Analysis: Data Analysis
Quotes About Money: Primary Source Analysis
Dangers of Cyberspace: Reading Informational Text
Common Core CorrelationsGO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8" x 11" online download at www.gallopade.com/client/go
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)