6.1.3.A: Define scarcity and identify examples of resources, wants, and needs. 6.1.3.B: Identify needs and wants of people.Identify examples of natural, human, and capital resources.
NCSS Themes:
Civic Ideals and Practices
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to determine the difference between needs and wants given the definition of each.
Students will identify needs and wants as a group given a class Venn diagram, and will individually identify needs and wants given a matching worksheet.
Materials:
Definitions of needs and wants, large Venn diagram, pictures of items that are needs and wants, matching worksheet
Hands-On Activity Description:
The teacher will ask for student definitions of needs and wants.
The teacher will define a need and a want.
The teacher will explain the Venn diagram and how it will show needs and wants.
The teacher ask the students to identify either a need or a want and then the teacher will place it on the Venn diagram
This a place where the teacher can explain how sometimes needs and wants overlap.
Once the class organizer is complete the teacher will hand out the individual worksheets.
The teacher will explain what the students should be doing.
The teacher will collect the worksheets when the students are finished.
Assessment: Informal: The class completing the Venn diagram. Formal: The students’ completion of the worksheet.
Lesson Topic: Identify Needs and Wants
Grade Level: 3rd
Time: 10 min
PA Standards:
6.1.3.A: Define scarcity and identify examples of resources, wants, and needs.
6.1.3.B: Identify needs and wants of people.Identify examples of natural, human, and capital resources.
NCSS Themes:
Civic Ideals and Practices
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to determine the difference between needs and wants given the definition of each.
Students will identify needs and wants as a group given a class Venn diagram, and will individually identify needs and wants given a matching worksheet.
Materials:
Definitions of needs and wants, large Venn diagram, pictures of items that are needs and wants, matching worksheet
Hands-On Activity Description:
The teacher will ask for student definitions of needs and wants.
The teacher will define a need and a want.
The teacher will explain the Venn diagram and how it will show needs and wants.
The teacher ask the students to identify either a need or a want and then the teacher will place it on the Venn diagram
This a place where the teacher can explain how sometimes needs and wants overlap.
Once the class organizer is complete the teacher will hand out the individual worksheets.
The teacher will explain what the students should be doing.
The teacher will collect the worksheets when the students are finished.
Assessment:
Informal: The class completing the Venn diagram.
Formal: The students’ completion of the worksheet.
Attachments: