Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™ |
Needs and Wants |
NDNAEU 1 “Sacred Relatives”, NDNAEU 3 “Sharing & Generosity”, NDNAEU 7 “Native Identity” |
Compelling Question | What are the essential needs in our lives? |
Standards and Practices | ND Health Standard 4: Students demonstrate the ability to use communication skills to enhance health. 4.2.1 Identify healthy ways to express needs, wants, feelings, and emotions (e.g., discuss how you are a special person, listen, take turns, happy laugh, happy-cry, sad-cry). ND Social Studies Standards E.K_2.3 Identify consumer decisions and the difference between needs and wants. E.3_5.8 Describe how economics have changed over time. |
Staging the Question | If you were lost in a forest, what would be important to have with you? |
Supporting Question 1 | Supporting Question 2 | Supporting Question 3 |
What is a want? What is a need? | What were the traditional wants and needs of the Indigenous People of North Dakota? | How have wants and needs changed throughout time? |
Formative Performance Task | Formative Performance Task | Formative Performance Task |
Given examples of wants and needs, students will sort items by correct category. | Compare your wants and needs with the traditional wants and needs of the Indigenous People of North Dakota. | Create a Past/Present T chart. Discuss differences between traditional and contemporary wants and needs. |
Featured Sources | Featured Sources | Featured Sources |
Arthur’s TV by Marc Brown https://www.amazon.com/Arthurs-Trouble-Adventure-Hardcover-September/dp/B010EWDQSG/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336805&sr=1-9&keywords=arthur%27s+tv+books Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco https://www.amazon.com/Chicken-Sunday-Patricia-Polacco/dp/0698116151/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336859&sr=1- Nothing by Jon Agee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxl2HuAVRw0&t=20s | Needs and Wants Sorting Activity https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Wants-and-Needs-Freebie-1641427 Needs and Wants (Used on Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Needs-Wants-Pebble-BooksGillia/dp/1429617071/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470326208&sr=1-1&keywords=needs+and+wants+pebble+books The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Tree-Shel-Silverstein/dp/0060256656/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470336981&sr=1-1&keywords=the+giving+tree+by+shel+silverstein | https://www.wolakotaproject.org/lakota-stories/ How People Learn to Fish Iktomi’s Blanket |
SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK: Supported Claim (written/spoken) or Demonstration of Process (project-based) | During a class discussion, have students explain how one item can be both a need and a want. |
SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK: Extension | After creating a list of wants and needs, justify your answers through discussion |
Taking Informed Action / Real World Application | Class research or discussion on how we keep our essential needs accessible to us (land, air, food and water). |