UNIT 5: What do I need? What do I want?
This unit introduces students to simple concepts of Economics — wants and
needs. Students will learn about money and how families make decisions on
buying what they want and need.
Materials:
Hello World! TE, flipchart and resources
Chart paper, markers, colored dots
Illustrations of things students want (bikes, video games,
etc.)
Weekly Reader
Making Meaning and Shared Reading titles:
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
I Was So Mad
Charlie Needs a Cloak
Cookie’s Week
Corduroy
A New Coat for Anna
How the Second Grade got $8,205.50 To Visit The Statue of
Liberty
The Monster Money Book
Sam and The Lucky Money
The Lucky Star
Guided Reading Titles
*Your bookroom may have additional titles
TITLE Guided Reading
Level*
A Class Bake Sale (available in three reading levels) B, C, F
All About Money G
Unit Objective A
Identify choices as needs and wants.
Identify the importance of making good choices. Describe things people need
such as food and shelter. Describe how needs are met
by families, the school and the community.
Activity
EQ: What do you need?
Hello World TE pp. 74-75
Review Flipchart pg. 38, Use chart paper and markers to complete Round Robin Brainstorming activity to identify different needs.
Create sentences with each term (Ex: We need food to be healthy, We need houses to keep warm, etc.)
Complete student Practice and Activity Workbook pg. 37
Discuss how needs are met in families, schools and the community. Assessment Formative Teacher observation Summative Practice and Activity assignment Alignment GLE 4B 6A Pr Std 3.8 1.10 DOK 2 MIG 4a, 6a CCR 1-4 CCW 2, 8 Research Based Strategies Identify similarities and differences Summarizing and note taking Reinforcing Effort and providing recognition Homework and practice x Nonlinguistic representations Cooperative Learning x Setting objectives and providing feedback Generating and testing hypotheses Questions, cues and advance organizers x
Notes and Resources
Unit Objective B
Identify choices as needs and wants.
Identify the importance of making good choices. Describe things people want
such as toys, games, etc. Understand families make
choices between wants and needs.
Predict choices parents might make.
Gather data and compare against prediction.
Activity
EQ: What are things we would like to have?
Hello World TE pp. 76-77
Review Flipchart pg. 39
Class sing What We Want pg. 77 Brainstorm list of wants.
Use a Venn diagram to categorize items from previous lesson and this lesson into categories for Needs and Wants.
Student practice and activity workbook pg. 38. Wishing for Wants. Illustrate 4 wants.
Three Step Interview: Discuss with peers what they think their mom and dad would wish for. What would their teacher wish for?
Write their ideas/pictures on the back of the activity sheet.
Homework. Check with parents to see what they would wish for and report back to class.
Assessment pg. 14 Needs/Wants Assessment Formative Practice and Activity pg. 38 Summative Needs/Wants Assessment pg. 14 Alignment GLE 4B 6A Pr Std 3.8 1.10 DOK 2 MIG 4a, 6a CCR 1-4, 9 CCW 2, 5, 8 Research Based Strategies Identify similarities and differences x Summarizing and note taking Reinforcing Effort and providing recognition Homework and practice x Nonlinguistic representations x Cooperative Learning x Setting objectives and providing feedback Generating and testing hypotheses x Questions, cues and advance organizers x
Notes and Resources
Unit Objective C
Recognize that people need money to buy the things they want.
Identify forms of money. Describe ways in which
people get money.
Describe choices students make to spend money. Identify places where
families spend money. Compare student choices. Summarize how students
make choices.
Activity
EQ: What can you buy with money?
Teacher read Sam and the Lucky Money to class Discuss how children might receive money (allowance, birthday gift, chores, etc.) and how they would spend the money.
Review flipchart pg. 40. Question students on what the mother is buying. Share with class places they have gone with parents to use money (grocery store, bank, restaurant, etc.)
Hello World TE pp. 78-79
Pose situation to class (TE p. 84) and review flipchart pg. 43.
Create a class decision making consensogram by distributing one colored dot to each student. Place illustrations for four items (Ex: bike, video game, skateboard, etc.) on chart paper and instruct students to place their dot under the item they would most like to have. Compare results. Invite students to share why they made the choice they did. Assessment Formative Teacher observation Summative Teacher observation Alignment GLE 4B Pr Std 3.8 DOK 2 MIG 4a CCR 1-4, 7 CCW Research Based Strategies Identify similarities and differences x Summarizing and note taking Reinforcing Effort and providing recognition Homework and practice Nonlinguistic representations x Cooperative Learning x Setting objectives and providing feedback Generating and testing hypotheses x Questions, cues and advance organizers x
Notes and Resources
Unit Objective D
Apply reading and writing strategies and skills; learn how students can help people in need.
Retell events from a story. Sequence events in a story. Describe ways students can
help people in need.
Relate events in the story to local and current events. Sequence events in a story.
Activity
EQ: How can students help people in need?
Pre-reading: brainstorm ways in which people help others.
Introduce the idea of a bake sale. Discuss how groups use bake sales to raise money.
Read A Class Bake Sale (available in three levels B, C, F).
Complete retell graphic organizer
Hello World TE pp. 71E-F.
Create individual pictures which sequence events in the story. Mix up pictures and have students place in proper sequence.
Assessment Formative Teacher Observation Summative Graphic organizer Alignment GLE 6A Pr Std 1.10 DOK 2 MIG 6a CCR 1-3, 7, 10 CCW 3 Research Based Strategies Identify similarities and differences Summarizing and note taking
x Reinforcing Effort and providing recognition Homework and practice Nonlinguistic representations x Cooperative Learning x Setting objectives and providing feedback Generating and testing hypotheses Questions, cues and advance organizers x
Notes and Resources
Unit Objective E
Explore and relate current events to wants and needs. Identify wants and needs as
reported in current events. Explain the significance of
wants and needs to their lives.
Activity
Use topics in Weekly Reader to periodically reinforce the concepts of needs and wants
throughout the school year. Possible connections include:
Local food drives
Holidays where gifts and candy and given Natural disasters such as the Joplin tornado, ice
storm, earthquake in Japan, Hurricane Katrina, etc. Assessment Formative Teacher Observation Summative
Will vary with topic Alignment GLE 4B 6A Pr Std 3.8 1.10 DOK 2 MIG 4a, 6a CCR 1, 2, 10 CCW 2, 8 Research Based Strategies Identify similarities and differences x Summarizing and note taking
x Reinforcing Effort and providing recognition Homework and practice x Nonlinguistic representations Cooperative Learning Setting objectives and providing feedback Generating and testing hypotheses Questions, cues and advance organizers x
Notes and Resources
