Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday is an excellent "hook" book to use if you are teaching the two Kindergarten NGSSS Economic Standards that deal with Needs and Wants. Interestingly, Economists do not generally distinguish between needs and wants; everything is a "want" in the discipline of economics. However, this concept is difficult to teach to young children. Therefore, you can consider "fun wants" as "wants" and "health wants" as needs, as illustrated in this EconEdLink Health Wants vs. Fun Wants interactive graphic organizer. Before conducting this lesson, you can discuss Wants and Needs through the use of the EconEdLink Health Wants vs. Fun Wants interactive graphic organizer, the Needs and Wants Brain Pop, you can use some of the ideas in Standard SS.K.E.1.4 Identify the difference between basic needs and wants.
Task: After conducting a teacher read-aloud of PBS Needs vs. Wants use the EconEdLink Health Wants vs. Fun Wants interactive graphic organizer to help students practice finding the difference between health wants (needs) vs. fun wants. Then students use a Venn Diagram to sort wants and needs from the two texts. After they use the information from the texts, they add three new ideas.
Standard SS.K.E.1.3 Recognize that people work to earn money to buy things they need or want. Task: After viewing the Jobs and Earning Money text, create a little picture book that describes how people work to earn money to buy things. Use information from the text in your response.
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