Basic Economic Concepts – Common Core Lessons and Activities

Common Core

by Carole Marsh

How to Use the Basic Economic Concepts - Common Core Lessons and Activities 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. 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 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 Needs and Reading Informational Text GExchange & Reading Informational TextScarcity, Choices, & Reading Informational TextGetting in Primary Source AnalysisCost & Benefit of Graphical Analysis G Consumers & Reading Informational Text"A Double Hold-up": Primary Source AnalysisFactors of Graphical Analysis G Reading Informational TextSupply and Data AnalysisEconomic Vocabulary GFactors Affecting Supply & Compare & Contrast GO1Economic Cause & Effect GAdam Smith & Free Reading Informational TextEconomist Summarizing Information GEconomic Reading Informational Text GO2 WritingBanks, Savers, & Reading Informational TextGovernment & Reading informational Text GCommon Core State Standards Correlations Includes Graphic Organizer Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)

24 pages, ebook

First published April 30, 2013

About the author

Carole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.

In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.