Lesson plan · North Dakota · NDNAEU 1 · NDNAEU 2
Themes: Land & stewardship, Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Culture & continuity, Food & plants
Resource text
Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
Needs & Wants
NDNAEU 1 “Sacred Relatives”, NDNAEU 2 “Learning & Storytelling”
Compelling Question
What are the essential needs in our lives?
Standards and Practices
ND Health Standard 4 Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance
health and avoid or reduce health risks
4.2.1 Demonstrate healthy
ways to express needs,
wants, feelings, and
emotions.
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/ArthursTrouble-Adventure-HardcoverSeptember/dp/B010EWDQSG/ref=sr_
1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336
805&sr=1-
9&keywords=arthur%27s+tv+books
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco:
https://www.amazon.com/ChickenSunday-PatriciaPolacco/dp/0698116151/ref=sr_1_1?
s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336859&
sr=1-
1&keywords=chicken+sunday+books
Max’s Dragon Shirt by Rosemary
Wells:
https://www.amazon.com/MaxsDragon-Shirt-RosemaryWells/dp/0140567275/ref=sr_1_1?s=
books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336902&sr
=1-
1&keywords=Max%E2%80%99s+Drag
on+Shirt++books
Nothing by Jon Agee:
https://www.amazon.com/NothingJonAgee/dp/0786836946/ref=sr_1_1?s=b
ooks&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336951&sr=
1-1&keywords=nothing++Jon+Agee
Need and Wants sorting activity:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.co
m/Product/Wants-and-NeedsFreebie-1641427
Pebble Books on Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/NeedsWants-PebbleBooksGillia/dp/1429617071/ref=sr_1
_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=14703262
08&sr=1-
1&keywords=needs+and+wants+pebble+books
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein:
https://www.amazon.com/GivingTree-ShelSilverstein/dp/0060256656/ref=sr_1_
1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=147033698
1&sr=1-
1&keywords=the+giving+tree+by+she
l+silverstein
How People Learned 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. Have the students who are confused talk though their process to see if they understand the needs vs. the wants.
Taking Informed Action / Real World Application
Class research or discuss how do we keep our essential needs accessible to us (land, air, food and water). How can they start helping these essential needs?
Source materials
- Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
- https://www.amazon.com/ArthursTrouble-Adventure-HardcoverSeptember/dp/B010EWDQSG/ref=sr_ 1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336 805&sr=1- 9&keywords=arthur%27s+tv+books
- https://www.amazon.com/ChickenSunday-PatriciaPolacco/dp/0698116151/ref=sr_1_1? s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336859& sr=1- 1&keywords=chicken+sunday+books
- https://www.amazon.com/MaxsDragon-Shirt-RosemaryWells/dp/0140567275/ref=sr_1_1?s= books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336902&sr =1- 1&keywords=Max%E2%80%99s+Drag on+Shirt++books
- https://www.amazon.com/NothingJonAgee/dp/0786836946/ref=sr_1_1?s=b ooks&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336951&sr= 1-1&keywords=nothing++Jon+Agee
- https://www.teacherspayteachers.co m/Product/Wants-and-NeedsFreebie-1641427
- https://www.amazon.com/NeedsWants-PebbleBooksGillia/dp/1429617071/ref=sr_1 _1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=14703262 08&sr=1- 1&keywords=needs+and+wants+pebble+books
- https://www.amazon.com/GivingTree-ShelSilverstein/dp/0060256656/ref=sr_1_ 1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=147033698 1&sr=1- 1&keywords=the+giving+tree+by+she l+silverstein
- How People Learned to Fish
- Iktomi’s Blanket