Rent Personal Finance - Common Core Lessons & Activities

Synopsis

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!

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 Correlations

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