COMPREHENSIVE LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Student Name: Madison Rohm Date Submitted:

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Grade Level: 2nd grade gifted
LESSON BASICS
Meaningful Topic/Big Idea: Length of Lesson:
Wants vs needs. 45-60 min
Standards (at least 1 LA and 1 NCSS Dimension): Depth of Knowledge
D2.Geo.8.K-2. Compare how people in different types of ☐1. Remember and/or
communities use local and distant environments to meet their daily Understand
needs. ☒2. Apply and/or Analyze
2.5.3 Explain how scarcity of resources and opportunity cost require ☐3. Evaluate and/or Create
people to make choices to satisfy wants and needs
Essential Question (turn your objective into a question and add a little detail):
What is a want versus a need and what must we give up to get them?
Objective(s):
Students will be able to write the needs of people living in two different environments with 100%
accuracy.
Assessment plan (must connect directly to essential question and objective- How will you
know students learned the objective?)
Students can correctly identify 3 needs specific to living in the desert , 3 needs to living in a snowy
climate, and 2 needs for both in a venn diagram that compares either desert or snow living to living
in Louisiana
Required Materials/Equipment/Technology/Community Resources:
-Computer and projector to show two videos
-venn diagram worksheets

Prior Knowledge/ Connections: Required Vocabulary:

Wants and needs of everyday life. Wants
What is a want versus what is a need. Needs
Needs help us survive, wants make us happy Requirements
but we could live without them

Literature Connection (Book Information, Cover, brief detail about book):

Jeremy, a young boy is wanting a new pair of shoes just like all of his friends however he cannot afford the thing
he wants most. The book follows the young boy into discovering the things he wants are not necessarly the thing
he needs and appreciates most

Scripted questions- Pre-planned questions that will stimulate higher-order thinking:

a. What is something you need that may be different than the person next to you (glasses,
medicine, etc (class connection)
b. Do you and your parents have different wants and needs ? (community connection)
c. Do people on the other side of the world have different wants or needs? (global connection)
 ACTIVITY PLAN
1. Warm-up/Review/Connections – This must include a visual:
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2. Introduction to Content/Explanation:
Reviewing previous knowledge of wants and needs. Asking students if they all want and need the
same things. Can you want and need something? Example of students always wanting water after
they had recess.

3. Presentation/Model the Learning Process (Teacher models):

Explanation of a Venn diagram using personal wants and needs.

4. Scaffolded/Guided Concrete Practice (Teacher and students work together):

Teacher will set an example of a Venn diagram on the white board and have students list how the
wants of an adult are different than the needs of a kid.

5. Communicative/Collaborative Concrete Practice and Grouping Strategies (Students work

together):
Students will discuss with the person next to them the needs they think their animals they did a
project on earlier that year has versus the other persons. Are they similar or different ? Why?

6. Independent Concrete Practice/Application (Student works individually):

Students will be given a Venn diagram to compare Louisiana and desert or snow life with .

7. Differentiation: Provide modifications for higher and lower performing students:

Word bank or suggestions can be posted on the board to help students think of specific areas
such as how are food needs different or clothing needs.
8. Assessment (Restate and elaborate on previous assessment explanation):
One of two different Venn diagrams will be given to each student. Students will have to label three
needs people living in Louisiana need versus Alaska or Arizona and 2 needs that are the same for
both.

9. Wrap-up/Concluding Activity:
Have each student share what they think they would need or want to whilst living in either a desert
or cold climate

Technology Use:
Two videos will be shown to the class so that students can experience life in a desert and life in a
snow ridden climate. They will use the knowledge they gain in this video to use on their venn
diagram assessment

Idea for service learning (How could this topic be brought outside of the classroom and
positively affect the world?)
Have students identify things they need and want versus what their parents may need or want and
why? This allows students to see the sacrifices parents make to give their kids what they want
Ideas for class speaker/guest or field trip:
A class speaker who has lived in a completely different environment than the children such as a
native Alaskan or desert dweller.
Instructor Reflection (This will only be completed after teaching lesson in field experience
classroom) Be thoughtful and include many details:
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