Kindergarten Wants and Needs Inquiry

Why Cant We Ever Get Everything We Want and Need?

Supporting Question 3
Supporting
Question
Social Studies
Practices

What happens when there isnt enough for everyone?

Economics and Economic Systems

Civic Participation

Inquiry Process and Skills

Acquire background knowledge

Connect

Connects ideas to own interests.

[
ESIFC K.1]
[
ESIFC K.1
/2
]

Ask questions. [SS Practices A.1]

With prompting and support, ask

and answer questions about key
details in a text. [Lit for Hist RI.K.1]

Develop questions

Wonder

Understands the basic organizational

structure of books. [
ESIFC K.2
]

Ask questions. [SS Practices A.1]

With prompting and support, ask and

answer questions about key details in a
text. [Lit for Hist RI.K.1]

Analyze and
summarize evidence to answer the research questions

Investigate

Distinguishes between fiction and

nonfiction resources. [
ESIFC K.3
]

Identify examples of scarcity and

choices made due to scarcity. [SS
Practice E.1]

With prompting and support, identify

the main topic and retell key details of
a text. [Lit for Hist RI.K.2]

Identify examples of scarcity and

choices made due to scarcity. [SS
Practices E.1]

With guidance and support from adults,

recall information from experiences or
gather information from provided
sources to answer a question. [Lit for
Hist W.K.8]

Formative Performance Task:

Participate in a discussion of
options people have when faced
with scarcity.

Use a combination of drawing,

dictating, and writing to compose
informative/explanatory texts in which
they name what they are writing about
and supply some information about the
topic. [Lit for Hist W.K.2]

Interpret information

Construct

Demonstrates simple organizational

skills such as sorting and categorizing.
[
ESIFC K.4
]

Present answers and conclusions

Express

Presents facts and simple answers to

questions. [
ESIFC K.5
]

Reflect on own learning

Reflect

Identifies own strengths and sets

goals for improvement. [
ESIFC K.6
]