Title: Needs and Resources
Grade: 1
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to bring about an awareness of what a resource is and how resources are important in meeting our everyday, basic needs.
Objectives:
The learner will gain an awareness of what a resource is by activating prior knowledge and applying that to a discussion and used in conjunction with the Needs and Resources lesson.
The learner will begin to understand what we make and get from different resources by activating prior knowledge, discussing what basic needs are, and sharing the lesson information.
The learner will apply this information to their own lives to begin to understand that these basic resources directly affect the students on an individual level.
The learner will complete a chart depicting three (personal) basic needs, and what resources is used to fill that need.
Procedure:
1) Revisit types of land and water from the previous lesson.
2) Read definition and information section in large book regarding what a resource is. Tie these two ideas together.
3) Describe each resource (reading from book and discussing what comes from each part: forest, soil, water)
4) Which of these do we use? How?
5) Review resource types, this time writing them on the board.
6) Explain activity. Students are to fill in the first box under "What I Need." Then decide which resource it comes from and put it at the end of the arrow in that box. Repeat this process for all three problems.
7) Check for questions.
Closure: Students work independently. If time allows, students share their work.
How this fits into the curriculum: This specific lesson is part of the first grade curriculum. It fall as the third lesson in a Land and Water Unit. This is the third part of the unit. The unit begins with the various types of land and water. Lesson two introduces different types of land and water maps. Following this lesson are lessons on factories and recycling.
Higher Order Thinking Skills: This activity is challenging for first grade. These are not only complex concepts for students to understand, but then to have them take these concepts and apply them directly (and independently) to their own lives, takes a level of understanding and application that is somewhat challenging and new for first grade.
The following student is expressing his needs for seafood, fun, and to drink. He wrote that these all come from bodies of water. This student did a great job of applying the big ideas we learned about in class.