Kindergarten Wants and Needs Unit Essential Questions Enduring Understandings GLCEs Assessments District Resources How do we get what we need from our environment? What is the difference between wants and needs? What is the difference between a good and a service? How do you acquire things that you want or need? Everything we need is in our environment. A want is something you wish you had. A need is something you have to have to survive. A good is something that can be purchased. A service is something you do for someone else. There are times when people trade/barter. G5.0.1 Describe ways people use the environment to meet human needs and wants. E1.0.1 Describe economic wants they have experienced. E1.0.2 Distinguish between goods and services. E1.0.3 Recognize situations in which people trade. Required: Kindergarten Wants and Needs Unit Assessment Formative: Whole group and individual observation. Students will sort magazine clippings or pictures onto Wants and Needs Assessment Activity page. Students will sort pictures of goods and services onto the Goods and Services Assessment Activity page. District: Key Terms & Vocabulary Human wants Human needs Economic wants Goods Services Trade Calhoun ISD Social Studies Curriculum Design Project
Kindergarten Wants and Needs Unit Lessons Breakdown Title GLCEs Included Resources Needed Resources Lesson 1 What is a Want? What is a Need? G5.0.1 E1.0.1 Wants and Needs Assessment Activity Sheet Magazines, Flyers, Advertisements Glue and Scissors Chart Paper United Streaming Video: * Title: The Difference Between Wants and Needs. * Play and Discover with Digger and Slat: What we Wear. *From Cow to Cup: How Milk Gets to the Table *Bread Baking *The Three Little Pigs Lesson 2 Trade E1.0.3 Trade United Streaming Video Segment: Understanding Economics: Barter vs Money Lesson 3 Goods and Services E1.0.2 Goods and Services Assessment Activity Sheet Scissors, Crayons, Glue United Streaming: *Production Workers and The Goods They Make. *Workers and The Services They Provide. PowerPoint:http://business.pppst.com/e conmics.html Suggested Resources What Do We Need by Trisha Callella 20 Manipulative Mini-Books Neighborhood and Community Scholastic Needs and Wants www.peachebooks.com From Sheep To Sweater By Robin Nelson Wilbooks.com (Leveled book on wants and needs) A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert Ox Cart Man by Donald Hall Alexander Who Use to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst Poor Old Polly by June Melser and Joy Cowley A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert The Scarecrow s Hat by Ken Brown Junk Day on Juniper Street If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff 20 Manipulative Mini-Books Neighborhood and Community Scholastic Wilbooks.com (Leveled Book on Goods and Services) Calhoun ISD Social Studies Curriculum Design Project
Lesson 1 Title: What is a Want? What is a Need? Kindergarten Wants and Needs Unit Grade Level: Kindergarten Unit of Study: Wants and Needs Estimated Pace: 2-3 Weeks Abstract: The students will identify the difference between a want and a need. GLCE: G5.0.1 Describe ways people use the environment to meet human needs and wants. E1.0.1 Describe economic wants they have experienced. Key Concepts: Human wants Human needs Important Questions to Ask: How do we get things we need? How do we get things we want? What is the difference between something we want and something we need? How do we use the environment to get what we want and need? Sequence of Activities: Day One: 1. Ask students about things that they have wanted before. Ask students things that they need. 2. Give each child in your classroom a picture of an object. Ask them to think about if it is a want or a need. Have them post it either on a pocket chart, or tape to chart paper under wants or needs. 3. Show students slide show on wants and needs: http://business.pppst.com/economics.html Click on wants and needs power point titled: Do You Need It. It is a 3 rd grade PowerPoint, but just skim it with the kids, touching on the most important points. 4. When finished, revisit students charts on wants and needs. See if there are things that they may want to change or leave the same. *Save pictures for Day Three Activity. You may want to laminate to use each year. Day Two 1. Revisit what a want and a need are. Ask students: How do we get thing we need / want? 2. Show the students the clip from United Streaming on wants and needs. Title: The Difference Between Wants and Needs. 3. When finished have students work in pairs. Give each pair of students Formative Assessment Activity Sheet 1. Have them draw a need on one side and a want on another. They can label the pictures I Need A, I Want A 4. When finished, have them share with class. Day Three 1. Ask questions to assess prior knowledge of where we get clothes, food, and shelter. 2. Talk briefly about how these things all come from our environment. 1
Kindergarten Wants and Needs Unit 3. Show students the following video segments from United Streaming. Stop in between to talk about them. Then come back and have another discussion. United Streaming Clips: A. Clothes: Play and Discover with Digger and Slat: What We Wear Segments: What are Clothes Made From? Segment: Sheep and Their Wooly Coats. Segment: The Reason For Rubber Boots. B. Food: From Cow to Cup: How Milk Gets to the Table Bread Baking C. Shelter: The Three Little Pigs Possible Station / Extension Activity 1. Using magazines, advertisements, or flyers cut out pictures of items humans need to live. 2. Using magazines, advertisements, or flyers cut out pictures of items humans want, but do not need to live. 3. Students will demonstrate their understanding of wants and needs, by sorting and gluing pictures to the appropriate places on the Wants and Needs Formative Assessment Activity page. Connections: English Language Arts Writing a wish list of wants Mathematics Instructional Resources: Equipment/Manipulative Magazines, Flyers, Advertisements Glue and Scissors Sorting Activity Sheet Chart Paper Student Resources Teacher Resources Suggested Resources What Do We Need by Trisha Callella 20 Manipulative Mini-Books Neighborhood and Community Scholastic From Sheep To Sweater By Robin Nelson 2
Kindergarten Wants and Needs Unit Wilbooks.com (Leveled book on wants and needs) Pictures of Wants and Needs / Cut and laminate if you can / Day One and Three Ass 3
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Kindergarten Wants and Needs Formative Assessment Activity Name Wants Needs
Lesson 2 Title: Trade Kindergarten Wants and Needs Unit Grade Level: Kindergarten Unit of Study: Wants and Needs Estimated Pace: 3-5 Days Abstract: Students will recognize situations in which people trade. GLCE: E1.0.3 Recognize situation in which people trade. Key Concepts: Trade (barter) Essential Question to Ask: Without money, how would we get what we need? Sequence of Activities: Day One: 1. Start by giving students an object of choice. (ex: A colored pencil, crayon, sucker, Jolly Rancher, sticker or anything else you may think of.) Ask the students if they are happy with the color, flavor, picture of what they have. If someone says no, ask them what they could do if they were not happy with object. We are looking for the answer, We could trade! Once this is brought up have the kids stand up and trade their object with someone else if they wish. 2. Talk to the students about what it means to trade things. Give other examples of where we trade things in the world. EX: Trading a library book in the library Book Swap with a peer or school-wide Five pennies for a nickel People trading one item for another using their available resources (goods, services, and money). 3. Finally ask the students if we took a watch or a bracelet into a grocery store could be trade it for food? When students say no, ask them what you need to trade in a store to get food. Money should come up. Talk about how we use money to buy goods and that is a form of trading too. 4. Show Clip From United Streaming: Understanding Economics: Segment: Barter vs Money 5. See suggested resources for more stories to tie in. Connections: English Language Arts Mathematics Calhoun ISD Social Studies Curriculum Design Project
Instructional Resources: Equipment/Manipulative Student Resources Teacher Resources United Streaming Video Kindergarten Wants and Needs Unit How to Study Cultures: How Economic Activities Define a Culture Suggested Segment: Barter, Segment 14 Suggested Resources Ox Cart Man by Donald Hall Alexander Who Use to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst Poor Old Polly by June Melser and Joy Cowley A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert The Scarecrow s Hat by Ken Brown Junk Day on Juniper Street Calhoun ISD Social Studies Curriculum Design Project
Lesson 3 Title: Goods and Services Kindergarten Wants and Needs Unit Grade Level: Kindergarten Unit of Study: Wants and Needs Estimated Pace: 3-5 Days Abstract: Students will distinguish between goods and services. GLCE: Key Concepts: Goods-Objects that are grown, sold, or made to satisfy people s wants and needs. Services-Jobs that people do to help others satisfy their wants and needs. Essential Questions to Ask: What people in our school and community help us? What do they do for us? Sequence of Activities: Day One: 1. Talk about what a good is. A good is anything you can hold or touch. Make a list of goods on chart paper. 2. Show United Streaming Video: Production Workers and The Goods They Make. 3. Have the students draw or make a good with play dough, other materials. Share with table or whole group. Day Two: 1. Talk about what a Service is. Services are jobs that people do. Make a list of Services on chart paper. 2. Show United Streaming Video: Service Workers and The Services They Provide. 3. Have students share one service with a group, or you can show them pictures of a doctor, teacher, etc. and ask them what service they provide. Use Services Clipart sheet. Day Three: 1. Take a look at your two lists from days one and two. Compare what goods and services are. 2. Show students PowerPoint: Goods and Services (PK-2) http://business.pppst.com/econmics.html 3. Talk about PowerPoint and then have them complete the Goods and Services Formative Assessment Activity Sheet. 1
Kindergarten Wants and Needs Unit Connections: English Language Arts Mathematics Instructional Resources: Equipment/Manipulative Goods and Services Summative Assessment Activity Sheet Scissors, Crayons, Glue Student Resources Teacher Resources United Streaming Video How to Study Cultures: How Economic Activities Define a Culture Suggested Segment: Barter, Segment 14 Suggested Resources 20 Manipulative Mini-Books Neighborhood and Community Scholastic Wilbooks.com (Leveled Book on Goods and Services) 2
Goods and Services Formative Assessment Activity Sheet Name Cut, sort, and glue pictures in the appropriate box. Goods Services