Common Core Lessons & Activities: Basic Economic Concepts Book

Basic Economics Concepts - Common Core Lessons and Activities book

Meet the new Common Core State Standards for ELA as well as Literacy & Writing in History and Social Studies! This book 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. ©2013. 24 pages. Middle/high school levels.

Here's how it works! 

• 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 State Standards expectations. 
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.&nbnbsp;
• 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!

Basic Economics Concepts- Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:

• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities & More!

Tips for using and reproducing the book pages: 

• 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 inches, enlarge them 125% on your copy machine. 
• Use the CCSS correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

Table of Content includes:

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