2-Social-Studies-January

Main Concept
Needs & Wants: Challenge of meeting needs and wants

Guiding Questions

 * What's the difference between needs and wants?
 * What are the basic needs one needs to survive? (food, water, shelter, clothing)
 * What's the difference between goods and services?
 * Who provides goods and services to the community?
 * What's the difference between producing and consuming?
 * How are people both producers and consumers?

Theme/Content Skills

 * Communities provide facilities and services to help meet the needs and wants of the people who live there.
 * People in rural, urban, and suburban communities are producers and consumers of goods and services.

Key Terms
needs, wants, goods, services, producer, consumer, barter, income, transportation, factory

Holidays

 * Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
 * New Year's Day

Student Outcomes

 * Students will recognize that all people have the same basic needs.
 * Students will recognize that people cannot always have everything they want.
 * Students will identify people that provide goods and services in a community.
 * Students will identify ways in which people are both producers and consumers.

Assessment/Project

 * "Product Promotion" Students create an advertisement poster for their favorite product.
 * Brainstorm different stores (department store, grocery store, bakery, bookstore etc). Students choose one store and make a collage of goods/services found in this store. Use magazine pictures, drawings. Compile the stores to make a community goods and services book.
 * Students invent a product.

Resources for Students
Harcourt Brace Activity Book p.10, 65, 66

Resources for Teachers
Graphic Organizers: -outdoor jobs vs. indoor jobs -goods vs. services -producer vs. consumer

[|www.harcourtschool.com/tours]: a virtual tour of a factory

Field Trip Suggestions
-Visit a factory -Farmer's Market -Supermarket -Bodega/Corner Deli