This document provides resources for teaching 1st grade students the difference between wants and needs. It includes a video, websites, a graphic organizer, and quiz to help students understand that needs are things required for survival, while wants are desirable but not essential items. Links are provided to the Social Studies for Kids and BrainPOP Jr websites containing information on wants versus needs through written content and videos. A Google Drawings graphic organizer and Kahoot quiz are also included as interactive activities for students to classify items and test their knowledge. The document reflects on how tools like Google Slides and Classroom can enhance collaboration, provide individualized learning, and promote curiosity.

1. Tech Module #3
Social Studies: Economics
By: Alyssa O’Connor

2. Wants Versus Needs
Grade 1
Objective:
- Students will be able to identify and distinguish the differences between wants and needs
by classifying items into their respective groups

3. Video: Wants and Needs
Everyone has basic needs, which are the things we need to survive.
Everyone has wants, which are the things we would like to have,
but do not need to survive.
We have to make choices on how to spend money on the things we
want and need.
You must buy needs, like food, clothes, water, and shelter before
you can buy things you want like toys and games.

4. Website: Social Studies for Kids
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/economics/wantsandneeds1.htm
This link will lead students to the Social Studies for Kids website. This specific link brings students to a
page full of written information on the basic economic principles of want and need. Here, students can
learn how these concepts are similar and how they differ, as well as take a short quiz to test their
knowledge.
Students can use this site to further their knowledge of wants and needs, as well as apply it.

5. Additional Website: BrainPOP Jr
https://jr.brainpop.com
This link will lead students to the BrainPOP website. There, students can navigate the website to find
information on various contents, and further refine their search by clicking on “social studies”,
“economics”, and then on “needs and wants.”
Students can use this site to watch videos, take quizzes, play games, do activities, and much more, with
regards to the “wants versus needs” topic.
This is another great resource for students and teachers that includes more than just written content

6. Google App Graphic Organizer
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1G9xLI2TVVmTsWPC9zReFTcN1mKz6rkXOqm-BYRBlZDs/edit?u
sp=sharing
A visual representation of “Wants versus Needs” made with Google Drawings

7. Smart Notebook Lesson: Shout It Out!
Link: classlab.com
Class ID: 4455 8729
- Students will have the ability to add pictures of their choice to the activity, categorizing the images
as “wants” or “needs”

8. Kahoot! 3 Question Quiz
https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=581a1cce-3580-4eb9-aa10-df45dcd8d8dc

9. Mini Reflection
How can Google Slides help you share new digital resources and tools for learning?
- Google Slides adds and enhances the concept of collaboration to assignments and lessons, as well as offers the opportunity for
individualized viewing and sharing. Google Slides allows students to work together on assignments and allows teachers to give
individualized feedback directly on those assignments. Teachers can also share a link to the class slides with the students, and
they have the ability to take notes directly on them.
How can Google Classroom help you promote curiosity and critical examination?
- As google classroom is accessible from almost anywhere, on almost any device, students will have the chance to ask any and all
questions they have. As their materials would be located in this one, paperless, place, students will probably be more likely to go
searching for answers to their questions with the scroll of their thumb, as opposed to flipping through hundreds of pages in a
book. Having all class materials in one central location, and in a place where students can communicate and collaborate, may
help them to analyze and compare content material, as well as discuss, critique, and question the point of view of themselves and
their peers.

10. Mini Reflection Continued
What are the benefits and/or challenges of using presentation platforms like Google Slides?
- Google Tools, like Google Slides, easily accessible, promote communication and collaboration, help to provide effective
feedback, and can be used by, realistically, almost anyone. A big challenge to using Google Slides is how impersonal it is. It takes
away from the face to face interaction, and relationship that a student would build with their peers and teachers if they had to be
together to complete a group assignment. And although obtaining effective feedback may be possible through Google Slides, the
feedback may not be quick as there is no “direct messaging” feature on google slides.