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Needs, Wants and Resources

Kindergartners decide why needs come before wants when money or time is limited, discover the natural resources that everyday things come from (trees, animals, water, soil), and learn that because resources are limited, people make choices and take care not to waste them.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 40 minutes
  • Needs, wants and resources: 5 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, match pairs, sort into groups and true or false
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What learners will discover

  • Sort needs and wants and explain why needs come first when we cannot have everything.
  • Identify natural resources and match them to things people make from them.
  • Explain that resources are limited, so people must choose and should not waste them.

Lessons

  1. Needs come first 4 steps2 practiceabout 13 min
  2. Gifts from nature 4 steps2 practiceabout 13 min
  3. Not enough for everything 4 steps2 practiceabout 14 min
  4. Needs, wants and resources 5 questions at the end

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