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Compelling question
What are needs and wants?
Standards & practices
K.E.1.1 Describe the difference between wants and needs.
OSEU 7.3 – Students will identify ways that the Oceti Sakowin values provide
resiliency in keeping the Oceti Sakowin way of life.
Staging the question
If you are camping, what are some things you might need vs. some you might
want?
Supporting inquiries
Supporting question 1
What is a need?
Formative performance task
Identify a want and a need from
when your grandparents grew up.
Featured sources
Book “I Really Absolutely Must
Have Glasses”
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=w8Z6B9Redlc
Supporting question 2
What is a want?
Formative performance task
Identify current wants and needs.
Featured sources
Brain Pop Jr. Needs and Wants
https://jr.brainpop.com/socialstu
dies/economics/needsandwants/p
review.
Class discussion: Can something be a need AND a want?
Extension
Justify want vs. need.
Taking informed action
Discuss needs and how we can protect them.
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Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
“Needs & Wants” | OSEU 7: Way of Life & Development
Compelling Question
What are needs and wants?
Standards and Practices
K.E.1.1 Describe the difference between wants and needs.
OSEU 7.3 – Students will identify ways that the Oceti Sakowin values provide
resiliency in keeping the Oceti Sakowin way of life.
Staging the Question
If you are camping, what are some things you might need vs. some you might
want?
Supporting Question 1
Supporting Question 2
Supporting Question 3
What is a need?
What is a want?
What is the difference between a
need and a want?
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Identify a want and a need from
when your grandparents grew up.
Identify current wants and needs.
Create a poster of needs and wants.
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
Book “I Really Absolutely Must
Have Glasses”
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=w8Z6B9Redlc
Brain Pop Jr. Needs and Wants
https://jr.brainpop.com/socialstu
dies/economics/needsandwants/p
review.
Story: Iktomi’s Blanket
http://www.firstpeople.us/FPHtmlLe
gends/Iktomis
Blanket-Lakota.html
Summative
Performance Task
Argument
Class discussion: Can something be a need AND a want?
Extension
Justify want vs. need.
Taking Informed Action
Discuss needs and how we can protect them.