Basic Economic Concepts: Common Core Lessons & Activities;

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!

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.
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 Organizers