Lesson plan · North Dakota · NDNAEU 1 · NDNAEU 3 · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Land & stewardship, Kinship & family, Identity & belonging, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Values & generosity, Culture & continuity, Food & plants, Economy & livelihoods, Listening & observation
Resource text
Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
Needs and Wants
NDNAEU 1 “Sacred Relatives”, NDNAEU 3 “Sharing & Generosity”, NDNAEU 7 “Native Identity”
Compelling Question
What are the essential needs in our lives?
Standards and Practices
ND Health Standard 4: Students demonstrate the ability to use communication skills to enhance health.
4.2.1 Identify healthy ways to express needs, wants, feelings, and emotions (e.g., discuss how you are a special person, listen, take turns, happy laugh, happy-cry, sad-cry).
ND Social Studies Standards
E.K_2.3 Identify consumer decisions and the difference between needs and wants.
E.3_5.8 Describe how economics have changed over time.
Staging the Question
If you were lost in a forest, what would be important to have with you?
Supporting Question 1
Supporting Question 2
Supporting Question 3
What is a want? What is a need?
What were the traditional wants and needs of the Indigenous People of North Dakota?
How have wants and needs changed throughout time?
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Given examples of wants and needs, students will sort items by correct category.
Compare your wants and needs with the traditional wants and needs of the Indigenous People of North Dakota.
Create a Past/Present T chart.
Discuss differences between traditional and contemporary wants and needs.
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
Arthur’s TV by Marc Brown
https://www.amazon.com/Arthurs-Trouble-Adventure-Hardcover-September/dp/B010EWDQSG/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336805&sr=1-9&keywords=arthur%27s+tv+books
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
https://www.amazon.com/Chicken-Sunday-Patricia-Polacco/dp/0698116151/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336859&sr=1-
Nothing by Jon Agee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxl2HuAVRw0&t=20s
Needs and Wants Sorting Activity
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Wants-and-Needs-Freebie-1641427
Needs and Wants (Used on Amazon)
https://www.amazon.com/Needs-Wants-Pebble-BooksGillia/dp/1429617071/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470326208&sr=1-1&keywords=needs+and+wants+pebble+books
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Tree-Shel-Silverstein/dp/0060256656/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336981&sr=1-1&keywords=the+giving+tree+by+shel+silverstein
https://www.wolakotaproject.org/lakota-stories/
How People Learn to Fish
Iktomi’s Blanket
SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK:
Supported Claim
(written/spoken)
or Demonstration of Process
(project-based)
During a class discussion, have students explain how one item can be both a need and a want.
SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK:
Extension
After creating a list of wants and needs, justify your answers through discussion
Taking Informed Action / Real World Application
Class research or discussion on how we keep our essential needs accessible to us (land, air, food and water).
Source materials
- Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
- https://www.amazon.com/Arthurs-Trouble-Adventure-Hardcover-September/dp/B010EWDQSG/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336805&sr=1-9&keywords=arthur%27s+tv+books
- https://www.amazon.com/Chicken-Sunday-Patricia-Polacco/dp/0698116151/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336859&sr=1-
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxl2HuAVRw0&t=20s
- https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Wants-and-Needs-Freebie-1641427
- https://www.amazon.com/Needs-Wants-Pebble-BooksGillia/dp/1429617071/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470326208&sr=1-1&keywords=needs+and+wants+pebble+books
- https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Tree-Shel-Silverstein/dp/0060256656/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336981&sr=1-1&keywords=the+giving+tree+by+shel+silverstein
- https://www.wolakotaproject.org/lakota-stories/