Natural Resources/ Wants and Needs/Goods and Services
Students will identify different natural resources from around the world. They will discuss why needs and wants are different.
Lesson Created By: ClancyStinson
Essential Question
How do economic choices impact families?
Grade(s):
- Kindergarten
- 1
- 2
Subject(s):
Recommended Technology:
iPads
SeeSaw
Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
Lesson Progression
After reading the following books students will choose one to respond to in a station. Students must identify the book and the natural resource. Students will work with a partner to create a video and post the video into SeeSaw.
The Pot that Juan Built
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Water Princess
Wangari's Trees of Peace
Students will discuss why different counties wants and needs are different depending on their natural resources.
Natural Resources around the world
View ResourceWangari's Trees of Peace
This is an audio reading of the book Wangari's Trees of Peace for a Human Rights & Peace Education Guest Reader Project.
Wangari's Trees of Peace
Link to book Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa.
View ResourceStandards
- K.3 Utilize the college and career skills of an economist to understand how economic decisions affect one’s personal community.
- 1.E.2 Explain how goods and services change over time.
- 1.E.4 Identify an economic want or need at the local or state level and create a solution in the form of a good or a service.
- 2.E.2 Explain how budgets change as wants and needs or the availability of goods and services change.
Assessments
Can the student correctly identify natural resources and explain why needs and wants are different for different countries?