Lesson 4
(Pedagogy: Guest Speakers, Discussion, Current Events)
Standards
K.E.1.2 Explain how jobs help people meet their needs and wants.
Essential Questions
How do families meet their needs and wants?
Guiding Questions
What are some jobs of people in our community?
Why do they have these jobs?
How do their jobs meet their wants and needs for their families?
How do their jobs contribute to the community's goods and services?
How have community helpers helped in our community recently?
Objectives
I can explain the difference between needs and wants.
I can explain how people meet their needs and wants.
I can give examples of jobs in my community.
I can relate the purpose of jobs and needs and wants.
Lesson Development
Needs
Wants
Jobs
Community Helpers
Materials
Assessment
Students will be assessed during the initial questioning of the lesson and during questioning through our guest speakers.
Standards
K.E.1.2 Explain how jobs help people meet their needs and wants.
Essential Questions
How do families meet their needs and wants?
Guiding Questions
What are some jobs of people in our community?
Why do they have these jobs?
How do their jobs meet their wants and needs for their families?
How do their jobs contribute to the community's goods and services?
How have community helpers helped in our community recently?
Objectives
I can explain the difference between needs and wants.
I can explain how people meet their needs and wants.
I can give examples of jobs in my community.
I can relate the purpose of jobs and needs and wants.
Lesson Development
- Explain that we have talked a lot about wants and needs.
- Ask the students if any of other or their families went shopping on Thanksgiving or Black Friday.
- Give the students the scenario: "So what happens when your families need groceries or clothes or want to go Black Friday shopping? How does your family get their needs and wants?"
- Guide students to the idea that people have jobs to help meet their needs, wants, and provide goods and services to the community.
- Share the current event: http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/payroll-boss-vacation-black-friday-checks-late-27240765. Explain that a business in Pennsylvania did not pay their workers in time for Black Friday so they were not able to go shopping. Explain that their wants and needs could not be met because their job did not pay them in time. Have parent or other volunteers in the school or community talk about their job briefly and how it helps them meet their family's needs, wants, and contribute to the community's goods and services.
Needs
Wants
Jobs
Community Helpers
Materials
- Parents or volunteers in the community willing to explain their jobs and the relationship to wants/needs/economics
Assessment
Students will be assessed during the initial questioning of the lesson and during questioning through our guest speakers.