Lesson number: Five (45 minutes) EXPLAIN

Inspiration taken from the Primary Connections unit planner

Lesson title: Needs versus wants: Understanding the difference between needs and wants.
To support students to develop explanations for experiences and make representations of developing conceptual understanding. To introduce current scientific views.

Assessment Formative Selected Learning Outcomes (AC) Science ACSSU211 ACSIS029 English ACELY1656 ACELY1788 ACELY1663 Learning Experiences Resources Teaching Strategies and Group Structure (whole class, small groups or individual) Literacy Focuses
Look for evidence of students use of appropriate ways to represent what they know and understand and give them feedback about how they can improve their representations.

Students will: 1. Be introduced to the terms needs and wants. 2. Use hula hoops as Venn diagrams to organise items into needs and wants. 3. Identify what animals need. 4. Discuss what plants need. 5. Use a picture of themselves to make a poster titled My Needs and My Wants. 6. List their needs and wants on their poster and share with the class.

Hula hoops.

1. As a class, discuss the two terms needs and Oral Language: wants. Needs are things that you cannot live without, Students will: Range of items: bottle of water, wants are other things that might make life more fun Contribute to a class discussion of picture of a house, basketball, or comfortable. (Whole class) what animals need. apples (or any other food Explain their understanding of source), lollies, toys, textas and 2. Lay out two hula hoops on the ground in the what is a need and what is a want. any other miscellaneous objects pattern of a Venn diagram. Label one needs, the Discuss their ideas in a whole found around the classroom. other wants and the middle both. Ask children to group situation. take turns sorting a range of items into the two hoops Answer questions and pose Drawing paper. and deciding what we need versus what we want. questions about various animals (Whole class) and their needs. Pens and pencils. 3. Add the terms needs and wants to the Word Vocabulary: Digital camera. Wall. Students will: Contribute to a class Word Wall on Needs and wants word list for 4. As a class, create a mindmap on things that animals the topic of biological sciences. differentiation. need. (Independent suggestions). Explain that animals Learn and practice using science and humans need four basic needs to survive: air, terminology, specifically needs See Resources Appendix 3 water, food and shelter. and wants. 5. Ask the children What do plants need? These answers will influence how the investigation is planned. 6. Take a photo of each child. Divide a piece of A4 paper in half and have the children write My Needs and My Wants on either side. Glue a picture of them on the poster. The children are to list some of their needs and wants from the activity and classroom discussion on their poster. These can then be displayed around the classroom. Differentiation: Children can be assigned objects to classify as a need or a want. For example, weaker children can be given water or lollies, as these are both extreme examples of needs and wants. Children can be supported in creating their needs and wants poster by using a word bank instead of coming up with their own words. Writing: Students will: Write a list of things that they need and things that they want on a poster.

Photographs: Digital photographs will be taken of each Posters: Each childs poster will be assessed based on the extent to which they can discriminate between wants and needs. See Assessment Appendix 3 for assessment checklist.