Common Core: Social Studies: Economic Concepts

These task cards can be used whole group, small group, with partners, or even individually! They are user friendly, and your students will love them. I use them in my classroom as assessments as well as review material for standardized testing.

Included in your download is:
--24 task cards
--student recording sheet
--answer key

This will help your students prepare for state testing by reviewing these important skills!!

Common Core Standards addressed:
-SS4E1 The student will use the basic economic concepts of trade, opportunity cost, specialization, voluntary exchange, productivity, and price incentives to illustrate historical events. Describe opportunity costs and their relationship to decision-making across time (such as decisions to send expeditions to North and South America). Explain how price incentives affect people’s behavior and choices (such as colonial decisions about what crops to grow and products to produce). Describe how specialization improves standards of living (such as the differences in the economies in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies). Explain how voluntary exchange helps both buyers and sellers (such as prehistoric and colonial trade in North America). Describe how trade promotes economic activity (such as how trade between the colonies and England affected their economies). Give examples of technological advancements and their impact on business productivity during the development of the United States (such as the steamboat, the steam locomotive, and the telegraph).

4th Grade Social Studies Task Cards:
Maps and Globes
Geography
Functions of Government
Native Americans
Explorers
Colonization
The New Nation
Westward Expansion
Economic Concepts
Democratic Principles
Personal Economic Decisions
War of 1812
Branches of Government
Causes of the American Revolution
American Revolution
Physical and Human Systems
Declaration of Independence
Abolitionist and Suffrage Movement
Physical and Human Systems
Bill of Rights
Positive Character Traits

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