Lesson 4: What choices do we need to make when fulfilling needs and wants?
NOTE: If time allows, a lesson before this one could discuss how not all goods and services are created equally and that quality and price of goods and services help consumer make their choices.
Lesson Focus: What choices do we need to make when fulfilling needs and wants?
Time Suggested: Will vary, depending on travel time to/from Farmer's Market, how busy the Farmer's Market is, etc.
Materials needed
Standards: NYS Social Studies for Kindergarten
– People helping one another to meet needs and wants
Objectives
Opening Activities
Main Learning Activities
Closure
The class will return to school and use the purchased ingredients to prepare their snack. They will then enjoy their snack.
After snack, the students will reference their notes and talk about the choices they made that day. What did you decide to do with the extra money? What did you buy? Could you buy everything you liked? What goods and services did you see at the Farmer's Market today?
Assessment & Record Keeping
Post-Lesson Follow-ups
Lesson Focus: What choices do we need to make when fulfilling needs and wants?
Time Suggested: Will vary, depending on travel time to/from Farmer's Market, how busy the Farmer's Market is, etc.
Materials needed
- Group budget allowance ($15-20 per group of 4 students- budget can very depending on school/classroom budget allowance)
- Transportation to/from the local Farmer's Market
- Chaperones (at least 1 per group of 4 students)
- Group shopping lists
- Notebooks and pencils for students to use at the Farmer's Market
Standards: NYS Social Studies for Kindergarten
- Concepts/Themes – Interdependence
- Content Understandings – People rely on each other for goods and services in families, schools, and the neighborhood
– People helping one another to meet needs and wants
Objectives
- Students will understand that money is used to acquire needs and wants.
- Students will know some of the goods and services offered in their community.
- Students will be able to make choices between needs and wants and different goods and services.
Opening Activities
- Before the groups go off on their separate ways, they will be given a list of things that they need to buy in order for the class to create their snack when they get back to school (Ingredients should be healthy and as allergy-free as possible - refer to students' medical info and school policies before determining what the snack will be). Each group will be responsible for one or two ingredients. Groups can decide whether to use whatever money is left over for their own purchases at the Farmer's Market.
- Students will also have a small notebook and a pencil to carry around to identify the goods and services that they see in the Farmer's Market, particularly those that they visit. Each student is asked to write down 4 examples.
Main Learning Activities
- Student groups, with chaperones, will find their needed ingredients in the Farmer's Market.
- Student groups, with chaperones, will identify some of the goods/services present in the Farmer's Market. Information they will include are the name of the goods provider/service, 1 example of what is provided, and if they think it would be a need or a want.
- Student groups, with some help from chaperone, will make a decision of how to use the money they have left over (go in together to buy something, divide it so everyone can buy something small, etc.).
Closure
The class will return to school and use the purchased ingredients to prepare their snack. They will then enjoy their snack.
After snack, the students will reference their notes and talk about the choices they made that day. What did you decide to do with the extra money? What did you buy? Could you buy everything you liked? What goods and services did you see at the Farmer's Market today?
Assessment & Record Keeping
- Students will be assessed by the notes they take in their notebooks and their participation in the class post-field trip debriefing.
Post-Lesson Follow-ups
- What went well? How do I know?
- What needs more work in the next class/ lesson?
- What activities should I do differently next time?