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Needs And Wants
Students make cards illustrating things they think they need and want to be healthy and happy. Groups then sort these cards into "wants" and "needs." The whole class discusses what it means when people's basic needs are not met and the...
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Students explore the 5 themes of geography. In this cross curriculum literacy and geography lesson, students listen to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett, and make a list of the needs of the people in Chewandswallow....
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Investigations in Aid: Identifying the Need
Young scholars investigate the needs in emerging nations. In this emerging nations lesson plan, students research the conditions for needs in the given countries. Young scholars are assigned to the country groups of Honduras, Nigeria,...
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Rainforest Wildlife
Pupils investigate how living things depend on one another for food, shelter, and other needs. They create artwork depicting a variety of living things thriving in an interdependent rainforest environment. Students blend primary colors,...
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Human Beings / Human Rights
Students brainstorm and discuss what it means to be "human." They relate human rights to human needs and discuss what a universal right is and read about Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Learning to Live Responsibly Within One's Personal Resources
Students explore survival techniques in the light of their own values and personal situations. The differences between needs and wants and how consumerism effects the environment forms the main focus of this three lessons unit.