Needs Vs. Wants

Needs Vs. WantsTina Thompson, Heather Wain,

Shannon Wain

Agenda:Essential Question: How do needs differ between cultures and between individuals?Standards: SS2E1 The student will explain that because of scarcity, people must make choices and incur opportunity costs.

1. Traveling and Camping with needs and wants

2. “The Rag Coat”

3. Vocabulary Review

4. Choices, Choices, Choices

5. Quilting Bee

Let’s Think Together…

• What are a few things that humans need to survive?

• What is a need?• What is a want?

• Do you think different people who live in different places around the world need different things?• If so, what are some things they

might need that you do not need? • What are some things you need

that they may not need?

• Do you think different people who live in different places around the world want different things?

• If so, what are some things they might want that you do not want?

• What are some things you want that they may not want?