Lower Themes - Needs, Changes, Moving and Places: Needs by Teacher Superstore

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Foreword Needs is one of a series of four books designed specifically for lower primary students. Needs utilises the personal experiences of students to investigate needs and wants and the people, products and services used to satisfy them. The widely-varied activities in this book cross many major learning areas but in particular connect to units in the key learning areas of Human Society and its Environment (HSIE), Science and Technology, Personal development/Health/Physical Education (PDHPE), Creative Arts (Visual Arts, Music, Drama, Dance) and English.

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Titles in this series: • Places • Needs • Changes • Moving

Teachers notes .............................................................................iv – v Connected Outcomes Groups overview.......................................... vi – vii

Who’s who at your house? .................................2–3

Money buys needs and wants ........................42–43

What are needs? ............................................4–5

Where does the money come from? ................44–45

Families meet our needs.....................................6–7

Things from the bank .....................................46–47

What are wants? .............................................8–9

Pocket money interview .................................48–49

Jobs for everyone .........................................10–11

Our wants and needs—art projects..................50–51

What’s the difference?...................................12–13

Bread: from the farm to your table–1 ................52–53

Considering others at school...........................14–15

Bread: from the farm to your table–2 ................54–55

Classroom wants and needs ...........................16–17

Investigating bread dough ..............................56–57

Things in our classroom .................................18–19

Goods and services ......................................58–59

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Care in the classroom role-plays ......................20–21

Buy – buy! ..................................................60–61

Classroom monitors.......................................22–23

Friendly food ...............................................62–63

Classroom rules............................................24–25

We’re going on a picnic! ..............................64–65

Feelings bingo .............................................26–27

More fun than food! ......................................66–67

Friends at school ..........................................28–29

Why do I need a home? ...............................68–69

I’m special! Who am I? .................................30–31

Homes here and there ...................................70–71

Picture sort ..................................................32–33

Why should I exercise? .................................72–73

What is my name? .......................................34–35

Everybody needs a friend! .............................74–75

In my school ................................................36–37

Same needs—Different ways ..........................76–77

A thank you gift ............................................38–39

Plant interview .............................................78–79

People who help us ......................................40–41

Animal needs ..............................................80–81

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Teachers notes The pages in this book follow a similar format. A teachers page on the left-hand side accompanies a student page on the right-hand side.

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Outcome links are given for the particular learning area relating to the topic. These learning areas are predominantly English, Human Society and Its Environment, Science and Technology, Personal Development/Health/ Physical Development and Creative Arts. However, other learning areas have been included.

The information provided on the teachers pages gives complete details about using the worksheets during a lesson. This includes what the teacher could do before, during and after the lesson. Any additional materials or equipment needed other than lead pencils are mentioned. iv

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Who’s who at your house? Indicator • Identiﬁes family members and their roles.

Worksheet information • Read a story about different types of families, such as Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells or Let’s eat by Julie Vivas.

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• Ask the students to indicate the number of people in their family by raising their hands. Differentiate also the number of grown-ups and children. Discuss extended families such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins etc. (or as culturally appropriate).

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• Students complete the worksheet after reading the information and instruction with the teacher. Some students may need assistance to write words. • For students with large families, extra house shapes may be drawn on the back of the worksheet or students may be given another copy of the worksheet.

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• Talk about the jobs (roles) that people have at home and how everyone helps.

© R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons • View paintings of different types of families by different artists; for example, ‘Habitant family’ by •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• Krieghoff, ‘The feast of St Nicholas’ by Jan Steen or ‘Portrat der famillie Lomellini’ by Anthonis van Dyck. • Ask students to paint a family portrait containing lots of details about each person.

Discuss the people in the families, their clothing and the colours, shapes, textures and techniques used in each painting.

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• Ask students to design and make a set of Babushka dolls representing their own families, using readily available materials. Ensure that students think about the heights/sizes of each family member.

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Who’s who at your house? We all have families but they are all different.

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Write the names of all the people who live at your house and what they do.

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What are needs? Indicators • Identiﬁes basic needs. • Matches basic needs to correct pictures.

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• Discuss basic needs and write student suggestions on the board. Use numbers to ﬁnd the three or ﬁve most important ones. Discuss how families satisfy these needs.

• Look at and discuss each picture and read and discuss the words. • Students draw a line to match the words to the pictures. • Check answers as a class and allow the students to colour the pictures.

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• Read the sentence at the top of the page with the students and the instruction.

• Students use role-play to show people eating and drinking, washing, hanging clothes on the line, ironing clothes, opening door and entering house, pulling on clothes to dress, putting clothes away etc.

© R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• • Students draw a simple plan of a house with the only the basic necessities in it—beds, cupboards, fridge, • Cut out pictures from magazines of different types of food and sort them into basic foods and ‘extras or treats’.

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What are needs? We have basic needs which we must have to survive. Match the need to the correct picture.

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Families meet our needs Indicators • Reads a poem with the teacher. • Identiﬁes words from a poem relating to basic needs. • Identiﬁes people in the family who help to satisfy needs.

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• Revise the information about what needs are.

• Read the poem with the students, assisting them with any unfamiliar words.

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• Read the instructions for Question 3 and, if necessary, write names on the board for students to copy. • When the worksheet is completed, students may colour the picture. • To complete the lesson, discuss ways that people other than adults help at home and how these jobs are important too.

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• Discuss the instruction for Question 2 and complete Question 2 (a) as a class then allow students to complete (b) to (d) independently.

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• ‘What would happen if ... ?’ Discuss scenarios such as ‘What would happen if the person who normally cooks dinner couldn’t do it?’ or ‘If the person who pays the bills forgot to do it?’ etc. • Sing songs such as ‘This is the way we wash the dishes’ etc.

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• Use common household items such as sponges, kitchen utensils etc. and brightly coloured paint to print artworks then write captions to accompany them. For example, ‘Mum uses the potato masher to make my favourite dish’.

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Families meet our needs 1. Read the poem with your teacher. When I am snuggled up in my soft, warm bed With my tummy full and a roof over my head, I wriggle in my pyjamas and wrestle and chuckle,

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What are wants? Indicators • Reads information about wants. • Identiﬁes wants and needs.

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• Read the sentences at the top of the page with the students and discuss to ensure understanding. Ask students to give examples of wants.

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• Students put a cross on the wants and circle the needs to complete the worksheet. Check the answers as a class and allow the students to colour the pictures. • Ask questions such as: ‘Bob’s dad works from home on a computer. Does he need one? Why?’

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• Discuss different types of food which may be considered wants (such as treats and takeaway food). Consider also how some people want big, luxurious homes and many clothes but they don’t need them to survive.

• Provide a collection of magazines and scissors and ask the students to cut out pictures of things they consider to be wants. Have the students glue them onto an enlarged printout of the word ‘wants.’ The students may need to cut off parts of the pictures which go outside the shape of the word. • Make a list of computer games which the students want to have at home.

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• The students draw a design for a magical machine which provides all the things they want.

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• As a personal development task, discuss why it may not be good for people to get everything they want and questions such as ‘What are people like who get everything they want? Do you think they are happy? Are they nice people? Are they selﬁsh or do they share with others?’

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What are wants? Wants are things we do not need to survive. Wants make life more interesting or comfortable.

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Put a cross on the wants and circle the needs.

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Jobs for everyone Indicators • Writes the name of the person at home who regularly does each chore. • Indicates whether he or she helps with any of the chores and writes ideas for increasing his or her contribution.

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• Discuss domestic chores and who does them. How much does each student help in the home? Are there some jobs they cannot do for safety reasons; e.g. clearing the gutters, mowing the lawn? Make a list of jobs they could help with; e.g. tidying their belongings, watering plants, clearing the table after meals, collecting newspapers for recycling. • Make a collection of magazine pictures of people doing different domestic chores. Label each picture and display.

• Discuss why it is important for all family members to pull together to run the home and why this makes the difference between a house and a home. By helping in the home, each person is showing respect for the family unit and not expecting one or two people to do all the work. Having designated jobs to do can also provide a sense of worth; the knowledge that each person’s role is important.

• Discuss ways in which chores can be incorporated into routines which encourage family members to spend time together and even have fun while they are working. Explain that spending time with people is the important thing whether it’s time raking the leaves from the lawn or ﬁshing together.

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• On individual sheets of paper, write jobs in the home that can be done safely by each student. Each week, each student draws out a job and promises to do/help with that job for the whole week. At the end of the week, students report on their success and the response from their families. • Write an advertisement for a person to join the family. Write the skills he or she must possess and the chores he or she would be expected to do.

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• Draw and colour a number of pictures of each person in the house doing his or her regular chores. For each person, arrange the pictures in a frame and present it as a sign of appreciation.

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Jobs for everyone Everyone in the house can help to make running the home an easy task. 1. (a) Under each picture, write the name of the person who does this job most of the time.

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(b) For each job, draw a happy face if you help or a sad face if you don’t help.

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2. How good are you at helping in the home?

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What’s the difference? Indicator • Compares aspects of life and records differences between home and school.

Worksheet information • Before the students complete the activity, discuss each aspect, asking questions to help them determine the differences between home and school. Write each question word on the board and encourage students to use them as they complete the task.

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• What? When? Where? Who? Why? How? Not all questions will be relevant for each aspect and some will be relevant for only school or only home. Encourage students to consider why the differences occur and give as much information as possible

• Explain that although there are many practical differences between home and school, there are many similarities; e.g. It is important to be considerate of others at all times and to this end there are rules at home and at school.

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• Create a labelled display of home/school images; e.g. Clothes—students in casual clothes/students in school uniform; Working—students performing domestic chores/students working in the classroom.

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What’s the difference? Fill in the table to show the differences between home and school. At home

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Considering others at school Indicators • Writes possible consequences of the removal of some school rules. • Writes two rules which he or she believes to be important, giving reasons for the choice.

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• Discuss the importance of rules: rules at home, in school and in the wider community. Why do they exist? Who creates them? Are they really necessary? For what reasons are they made?

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• Discuss the rules in your classroom. Do the students appreciate them? Do they obey them? Which rules do they agree/disagree with? What are their reasons? • Discuss what would happen without these rules. Do they think the possible consequences are worth risking? • Which rules do the students think are the most/least important? Arrange them in merit order. • Record keywords from the discussion on the board.

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• Write a disaster story about a chain of events that occurred as a result of the absence of any school rules. • Use the computer to write a list of classroom rules.

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Considering others at school School and classroom rules are made to make sure that everyone in school is safe and has a fair go at all things. 1. Read the school rules and write what could happen without each rule.

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Return all resources to their correct places.

Report any damaged equipment.

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Classroom wants and needs Indicators • Labels items as ‘needs’ or ‘wants’. • Gives reasons for categorising items as ‘needs’.

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• Explain that determining needs and wants is not always clear-cut as it can be difﬁcult for younger students to understand that they are not the same.

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• In most classrooms in Australia, students are fortunate in that they have all the basic requirements for learning and a lot more besides. If possible, display pictures of classrooms in areas of the world where they have only the basic requirements. How is their classroom different?

• Take a selection of classroom equipment such as scissors, a ruler, and examples of maths and science equipment. Ask students if they are essential for learning, giving their reasons. Could anything else be used in their place? • What ‘needs and wants’ do the students and teacher have for the classroom? Make lists and justify the requests.

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• Make contact with a school in a third world country and, with the help of the local community, raise funds or send parcels to the school. Maintain contact with the school through a penpal system.

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• Choose a ‘need or want’ item for the classroom and write a story about life in the classroom before and after this item.

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Classroom wants and needs ‘Needs’ are necessary for survival. ‘Wants’ are things that make life more comfortable and fun but we would still survive without them. In the classroom, we have needs to survive in the learning environment.

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Things in our classroom Indicators • Identifies the source of classroom resources. • Identifies the approximate cost of classroom resources. • Identifies who provides each resource.

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• Ask students to point to or hold up an item they need to use in the classroom. Discuss a couple of the items, talking about where each may have been purchased, what it is made from, how and where it was made and who provided it; e.g. school, government, parent.

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• Discuss the objects pictured on the worksheet. Students can draw or write what each is made from and circle the more realistic price of each item. • A blank space has been left for students to ﬁll in one of their own choice.

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• Compile and display ﬂow charts of how a speciﬁc item needed in the classroom gets there; e.g tree to paper.

• Make labels to attach prices of items needed in the classroom. Look in catalogues, magazines, newsagents etc. to ﬁnd realistic prices.

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Care in the classroom role-plays Indicators • Identiﬁes and role-plays appropriate and inappropriate ways of using classroom resources. • Identiﬁes safety, hygiene and organisational issues involved in using classroom resources.

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– Read the role-play pairs to the class. After listening to each of the pair, discuss the appropriate and inappropriate behaviour and the consequences for each; e.g. ingesting the lead in a pencil is bad for your health, sharpening into the student’s tray means the dirty sharpenings will also dirty books, papers etc

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– As above, but only show the inappropriate role-play. Guide a discussion on what should happen, then ask the other student to perform the appropriate role-play.

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• Students can help create merit certiﬁcates to distribute to students who demonstrate appropriate behaviours with classroom resources.

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D. Person 2 places his/her lead pencil on the desk while thinking.

E. Person 1 is using marker pens and doesn’t put the lid back on when changing colours.

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Classroom monitors Indicator • Identiﬁes the roles and responsibilities of classroom monitors.

Worksheet information • Explain the term ‘monitors’ if your class is familiar with the term ‘helpers’.

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• Students then complete the worksheet, writing (or having scribed) a brief sentence about the job and illustrating it. Share in a small group or with the whole class.

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• Students help design and create a new monitor chart if the present one needs replacing. Explain how they are often laminated so names can be written on, wiped off and replaced or name tags are put into slots or attached with velcro™.

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Classroom rules Indicators • Understands the reasons class rules are made. • Identiﬁes his or her classroom’s rules.

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• Read the introductory text on the worksheet about what Grace and Jack say about classroom rules. Discuss. Ask: ‘Why do we have classroom rules?’ ‘What would happen if we didn’t have certain rules?’ ‘What happens when someone doesn’t obey a classroom rule?’

• Students then complete the worksheet, writing (or having scribed) a brief sentence about two rules and illustrating each. Share in a small group or with the whole class.

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• Communicate with another class in the same year, or a year lower or higher in the school. Compare rules and see which are the same and which are different.

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Classroom rules Hi! Our names are Grace and Jack. We have a list of classroom rules to follow. They make our classroom a happy, healthy and safe place to be. One of our rules is remembering to say ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’.

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Feelings bingo Indicator • Plays a bingo game using words and illustrations showing different feelings.

Worksheet information Introduction

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• Discuss some of the ways we know how other people are feeling; e.g. what they say, what they do and how they look.

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• Demonstrate this by asking students to identify the eight different feelings shown on the cards from your facial expressions; supported, if necessary, by some appropriate actions.

• Photocopy page 27 onto A3 or A4 paper or light card. One page will be needed for each group of up to ﬁve students; that is, a card for each player and a set of eight cards for the group leader to read out. • Each set of cards should be cut out and distributed to a group. (Note: If laminated, they will be more durable.) • The four players in each group will each need six counters.

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• Feelings cards are placed in a bag and individual students take turns to select a card and describe when, why or how they had this feeling or what could happen in the future to make them feel like this. • Students draw faces on paper plates showing a particular feeling. Invite other students to identify the feeling then use the plates to make a class ‘feelings’ collage.

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Friends at school Indicator • Completes a ‘My schoolfriends’ poster providing visual and written information about friendships.

Worksheet information Introduction

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• Read a book about friendship, such as The very best of friends by Julie Vivas or Rose and the midnight cat by John Brown. Discuss why the characters are friends, the things they do together and what they think of each other.

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• Students should draw one, two or three of their schoolfriends and identify them by printing their name near each drawing. They can then ﬁnish the worksheet by completing the sentences and drawing a picture of one of the activities from the list of those they share with their friends.

• The students’ My schoolfriends’ pages could then be compiled in a class ‘Book of friends’ or displayed on a board.

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Note: Positive characteristics for the posters could be discussed, brainstormed and listed on the board for student reference prior to this activity. • Write an class acrostic using the letters in the word ‘friends’.

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I’m special! Who am I? Indicator • Solves riddles to identify adults who are special.

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• Explain that there are adults who are special in our lives. These people care about us and try to help look after us. They are people we can trust and if we had a problem or were in some sort of trouble we know that we could ask them for help. Encourage students to nominate and categorise some adults who are special to them and make a list on the board. Ensure these include ‘teacher’, ‘neighbour’, ‘brother’, ‘grandfather’, ‘mother’ as they are the answers to the riddles. Students may also include personal names for these people such as ‘Grandpa’ or ‘Mum’. Activity

• A discussion about the relationship between family members and some practice in working them out will assist students to solve the riddles. For example: Grandfather is Mum or Dad’s father and Mum is Grandfather’s daughter. After solving the riddle and copying (or having scribed), students should draw a picture of each person in the space provided.

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Picture sort Indicators • Identifies products and services that help to meet our needs. • Identifies the source of a variety of products and how each is made. • Identifies where a product can be bought or where a service can be found.

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• The pictures on the worksheet show a variety of products and services that help to meet our needs. Discuss how each does this.

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– Which picture(s) show(s) something that has been made in a factory (manufactured)?

– Which picture(s) show(s) something that we can buy in a supermarket/butcher/ﬂorist/department store/bakery? –

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What is my name? Indicator • Identiﬁes and matches the name of the person who helps provide a product or service.

Worksheet information • This activity can be used as a follow-up activity to the one on pages 32–33. If the previous activity has not been completed, students will need more discussion about what a product and a service is, the source of a variety of products, where a variety of services can be found and how they help to meet our needs.

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• Discuss each of the people on the worksheet who help provide a product or service. Assist with reading the sentences. Ask students to suggest the name of the person who provides the product or service. Students colour the pictures, cut out the labels at the bottom and place them on the correct picture. Initial letters etc. will assist them in recognising each name.

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• Discuss how more than just the person named on the worksheet helps to provide each product or service; for example, a car dealer has to buy cars from a factory where they are manufactured by other people and equipment. The various components of a car come from metals mined from under the ground.

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What is my name? Cut out the labels below and place them on the correct picture. I look after sick people.

I sell bread and cakes.

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In my school Indicators • Identiﬁes a variety of people who work in a school and their role. • Identiﬁes a variety of facilities found in a school and their use.

Worksheet information

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• Compile a list of school helpers on a large chart or whiteboard. Write notes about where they can be found, who they help, how they help and if their work is voluntary or if they are paid.

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A thank you gift Indicators • Identiﬁes a person who helps him or her. • Designs and makes a thank you gift for that person. • Evaluates the success of the gift.

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• With the students, discuss why gifts are given; e.g. for birthdays, Christmas, when babies are born, weddings, engagements, house warmings, as a thank you gesture of appreciation. Ask them for examples of the types of gifts they like to receive (they want or need that item).

• Identify someone who has helped them and think of a simple gift they could make that person. Ask them to think about what the person likes or likes to do, so the gift will be suitable. Brainstorm some ideas. • Students can discuss with others how they will make the gift, the materials they will need and draw pictures of their design plans on scrap paper. Other students can suggest changes.

• Students make their gift and draw a picture of the completed gift on the worksheet. After they have given the person their gift, students write about (or have scribed) what happened when they gave the person their gift. They can share responses with the class and talk about any changes they would make (if any), or consider any class member’s suggestions, if they made it again.

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• Conduct a survey to tally the gift each student would like to receive for their next birthday and graph the ‘top ten’.

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People who help us Indicator • Identiﬁes how a variety of workers in the community help to meet his or her needs.

Worksheet information • Discuss the type of work students’ parents do and make a list. Include any voluntary work; e.g. a parent might help with reading in the classroom or be on roster in the school canteen. Ask students to identify which work is paid and which is unpaid (voluntary).

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• Organise parents or members of the community to visit the class and explain what they do. Students could help to write focus questions to ask each person. They could take turns in asking the visitor a question. Include questions about why he or she chose that job, how long he or she has had that job, why he or she still does it and so on.

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People who help us There are many people in the community who help to meet our needs.

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Write a sentence to explain how each of these people helps us.

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Money buys needs and wants Indicators • Reads information about how needs and wants are obtained. • Identiﬁes needs and wants which require money to obtain. • Identiﬁes the people who provide money to buy needs and wants.

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• Revise the meaning of ‘needs’ and ‘wants’.

• Read and discuss the information at the top of the student page.

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Money buys needs and wants Our parents use money to get many of the things that we need or want. To get some things, like love, friendship and physical activity, we do not usually need money.

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1. Write ‘M’ next to all the needs and wants which need money to get them.

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Where does the money come from? Indicator • Completes information about own family’s income.

Worksheet information • Some discussion should take place before completing the worksheet.

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• Students may also need to gather some information from home to complete the worksheet. Students should be told not to divulge any personal ﬁnancial information which parents may not want others to know. For example, students may need to write down words such as ‘credit union’ or ‘building society’ but not speciﬁc information about which company. If desired, the worksheet can be completed as a homework activity.

© R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons • View and discuss the artwork on banknotes: Who may have drawn them and why? What details are shown on • eachf different Discuss design forp each to create hisl or her• own orbanknotes? r evi e wap ur ostudent ses on y banknotes. What would he or she put on it? Using a speciﬁc medium, students draw a design for one or

• Role-play using play money to buy goods at the class shop. Give the students a speciﬁc amount of money and ask them to buy ‘needs’ ﬁrst and then ‘wants’ with any remaining money.

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• Read books about money, including A bargain for Frances by Russell Hoban; A quarter from the tooth fairy by Caren Holtzman; Alexander, who used to be rich last Sunday by Judith Viorst; or The Berenstain Bears’ trouble with money by Jan and Stan Berenstain.

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Where does the money come from? Money that goes into a bank for a family to use to buy needs and wants is called income. Income may come from earning wages or a salary, a pension or benefits from the government, running a business, or other sources.

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(a) The people who live with me who earn money are ...

(b) They get the money to buy needs and wants from ... (Copy words from above or write one or more of your own.)

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Things from the bank Indicator • Identiﬁes and discusses things involved in getting or using money from a ﬁnancial institution.

Worksheet information • Read the instructions and then look at the pictures.

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• Discuss each picture, deciding what it is and how it relates to the subjects of money and ﬁnancial institutions. Students should indicate whether they have ever seen people using each item to work with money. Items such as the computer for Internet banking and the telephone for telephone banking may need to be explained. As students may have seen some, but not all, of the items shown, a discussion of who would use what (and why) should occur; for example, the money bag may be used by a small shopkeeper to deposit money in a night safe etc.

• Discuss how often people actually go into a ﬁnancial institution to complete transactions and how often banking is done by ATM, Internet, telephone etc.

• Count the number of students who have seen people use each item, then tally and graph results.

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Pocket money interview Indicator • Completes an interview sheet about a classmate who receives pocket money.

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• Ensure that the students have plenty of time to write answers and have a ﬁrm book or sheet of cardboard to lean on when ﬁlling out the interview sheet. • When the interview sheets have been completed, some students may share responses if the interviewee is happy to allow it.

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• Read and discuss the information at the top of the page. Ask the students to indicate if they receive pocket money by raising their hands. The number of hands raised will determine the form of the interview. If a limited number of students raise their hands, a small group of students may interview one student rather than doing it in pairs. Care must be taken when discussing this topic that no students feel embarrassed, due to strained family ﬁnancial circumstances, if they do not receive pocket money.

• Discuss what people do with pocket money. Have the students indicate whether they save or spend their pocket money. Discuss the concept of saving for an item which costs a lot.

• Some children do not receive pocket money. Ask students to offer reasons for this.

• List other ways to earn money. For example, some students may receive money as a reward for doing well in a spelling or maths test or piano exam or eisteddfod, while some may receive money from the tooth fairy when a tooth falls out. • Discuss ways to keep money safe.

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• Role-play purchasing goods from a supermarket, including collecting bags, wallet/purse, checking money, shopping for goods, counting out money to pay the sales assistant, collecting the sales receipt and carrying the goods home and putting them where they belong.

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• Using drawing, painting or sketching skills and techniques and their memory, students create an artwork of their parent’s ﬁnancial institution or their most frequently-used local ATM.

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Pocket money interview Some children earn a regular amount of pocket money by doing jobs for their family at home. Find a classmate who gets pocket money. Interview him or her and write the answers on the sheet.

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Our wants and needs—art projects

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Indicators • Creates artwork using mixed media to represent people’s needs and wants. • Writes an artist’s statement describing the artwork. Worksheet information • Prior to this lesson, collect the materials listed on the worksheet and organise them into separate trays for each project. Arrange the classroom into four work stations. Set up a project at each station. Depending on the time and materials available, students rotate through more than one station. • Ask the class what the difference is between a ‘need’ and a ‘want’. Divide the board in half. Students offer examples of each. Record their ideas, helping them to see that some things they may believe to be needs are actually wants. A ‘need’ is something we use to survive (e.g. water, food, clothing, air, shelter, love). A want is something we would like to have but is not essential for our survival (e.g. a new toy, TV). • Read each of the project procedures with the class. Clarify each to ensure understanding. • Divide the class into four groups, allocating each group a project. Decide if the students will work individually, in pairs or small groups. Students complete the projects. • Note for Project 1: Wants – Aluminium foil art Students use aluminium foil and shape it to create models of the different objects people want. Cardboard can be used to strengthen the objects and to make straight edges. • Note: Project 3: Needs - Lettering art If students are familiar with using word processing programs and illustrating programs, have computers available to them to type words and change their look with the use of artistic fonts. • Once the projects are completed, explain the meaning of an ‘artist’s statement’. An artist’s statement includes: name of the artist; how and when the artwork was created; the materials it is made from; and why the artwork was created (its purpose). • Students write drafts and once they have been checked by a teacher, publish their statements. The statements are displayed next to their artwork. Additional activities • Combine all of the ‘needs and wants’ art projects to compile a whole-class artwork. Students give the combined art piece a title and, as a class, write an artists’ statement about the piece. Invite other classes to come and view the work. • Take photographs of the individual art pieces and use them to create a Powerpoint™ presentation about needs and wants. • Discuss the ‘wants’ shown in the artwork. Consider and discuss people who live in Third World countries. Would their ‘wants’ be different to the ones shown in the artwork? Make a class list of the possible ‘wants’ of people from Third World countries. How do they differ from our own? Curriculum links

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Our wants and needs–art projects 1. Follow the procedures to create one or more of the art projects. 2. Write statements about your art to display with your work.

Project 1:

Wants – Aluminium foil art

Needs – Modelling clay art

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What to do: • Work and shape aluminium foil to make models of a variety of different items that people want; for example: jewellery, cars, TV, toys, boats.

Materials: • modelling clay

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Materials: • aluminium foil • clear tape • cardboard • markers

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shape modelling clay to make models of a variety of different items that people need; for example: shelter (homes), healthy food, water, clothing and shoes.

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What to do: 1. Look through magazines for pictures of items that people want; for example: toys, sweets, electrical goods, jewellery, cars, holidays etc. 2. Cut out the pictures and glue them onto coloured card (making sure there are no gaps) to make a ‘wants’ collage. Lower themes – Needs

Bread: from the farm to your table – 1 Indicators • Learns about the process of growing and grinding wheat to make bread. • Matches text to accompanying pictures and creates a ﬂow chart.

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• Discuss with the class that certain foods have a number of steps to go through before they reach the supermarket shelves; for example, bread begins as a small grain of wheat, which is obtained from a ﬁeld where it is grown. • Read the text with the class. Clarify meaning to ensure understanding.

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– Who is having a sandwich for lunch?

• Students work individually or in pairs to decide which picture matches each text box. The matching number is written in the box in the picture.

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• Students colour their ﬂow charts.

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• Draw, label and colour a wheat grain, showing its main parts. Include which part of the grain is used to make white ﬂour and wholemeal ﬂour. • Read and discuss the story ‘The little red hen’. Ask the class questions such as: What did the wheat need to germinate?; What had to be done so the wheat could be eaten as bread? etc.

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Bread: from the farm to your table – 1 Follow your teacher’s instructions to create a ‘Bread: from the farm to your table’ flow chart, on a separate A3 sheet of paper. 1. A farmer uses a tractor to pull a machine which plants the wheat seeds (the grain).

2. Rain and sunshine help the seeds to grow into tall stalks of wheat.

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7. The baker mixes the flour with other ingredients and then bakes it into loaves of bread.

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8. The loaf of bread is sold to consumers (you and me) and eaten.

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Bread: from the farm to your table – 2 Indicator • Considers the ramiﬁcations if one step of the bread making process is altered.

Worksheet information Note: Pages 52–53 and 54–55 are to be used in conjunction with each other.

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Read each problem and write your ideas in the table. Problem

What could happen?

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(e) Bakeries and supermarkets raise the price of a loaf of bread.

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Investigating bread dough Indicators • Conducts an investigation to discover which conditions cause bread dough to rise the fastest. • Investigates by observing, predicting, testing, collecting and recording data. Worksheet information • Have all ingredients measured and in small containers ready to use. Alternatively, if time permits, have measuring cups and spoons available so students can measure the ingredients themselves.

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• Baked goods rely on carbon dioxide bubbles created by mixing yeast, sugar and warm water for them to rise. Yeast is a fungus which converts sugar to carbon dioxide gas. The carbon dioxide expands and create bubbles that cause the bread to rise. This process takes time, so bakers use yeast in the dough which they then leave for several hours.

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• The students are testing to see which conditions cause the yeast to produce carbon dioxide the fastest, making the bread rise (double in size) faster.

Safety note: If the dough mixtures are to be baked and eaten, strict hygiene must be adhered to at all times. Remind students to wash their hands at all stages. All working spaces and equipment must be washed with hot, soapy water and dried thoroughly before the experiment begins. • To bake 12 rolls: Extra ingredients—milk for glazing; margarine for greasing. Extra equipment—pastry brush for glazing; greased oven trays. Procedure (continued from worksheet):

8. Punch down dough mixture (with one ﬁrm punch with ﬁst) and knead for one minute. 9. Divide each lump of dough into four and roll into a ball and shape as you wish.

10. Arrange on lightly greased tray. Cover with a clean tea towel for 20 minutes to rise. 11. Brush with milk and bake for 15–20 minutes. Makes 12 rolls.

• While tasting, students can compare the quality of the rolls from the three different dough mixtures.

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Investigating bread dough Follow the procedure to make bread dough. Ingredients

Equipment

• 1 tsp dried yeast

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Goods and services Indicator • Differentiates between goods and services.

Worksheet information • To start this lesson, read the students a book such as ‘Let’s get a pup!’ said Kate by Bob Graham. After reading the story, ask the students what kind of things the family might need for their new pet. Write their suggestions on the board, on either side of a vertical line; goods to one side (such as pet brush, bowl, toys, collar, lead, food) and services on another (such as vet, grooming and clipping).

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• Give each student a copy of the worksheet. Students ﬁll in the missing words to complete the sentences, then label the pictures as either ‘goods’ or ‘services’. To complete the worksheet the students write as many other goods and services as they can think of in the table under the appropriate headings.

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Buy-buy! Indicators • Understands advertising affects they way people spend money. • Creates a newspaper advertisement for a fictitious cereal aimed at a specific market.

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• Take a newspaper (with colour ads) to the classroom. Flick through the pages and stop on the colour advertisements. Talk about what the ads are for—when people make goods, they want as many people to buy them, so they make advertisements to encourage people to buy those goods. Talk about what pictures and colours are used, the wording that is used and the information that is presented in the ad: Why are the colours bright? Why are there few words? Why is the writing large? If there are people in the ad, how do they look? Who do you think the advertisers want to buy the product?

• Give each student a copy of the worksheet. Explain to them that they are going to be advertisers, making a newspaper or magazine ad for a new product called ‘Crispy Crunchies’. They need to think carefully about who they think will most likely buy this cereal: young children, teenagers or adults. Then they can decide what images they will use (cartoons, young or older people, healthy fruits, bikes or surfboards, etc.), the colours, the text and the size of that text.

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• Students could plan a television or interactive Internet advertisement for a product of their choice.

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‘Crispy Crunchies’ is a new breakfast cereal. Your job is to make an advertisement for Crispy Crunchies to put in a newspaper or magazine. Think about: • who you think will eat the cereal • what colours and pictures you will put in the ad • what words will be in the ad, and how big the words will be. Draw a plan for your ad in the box below. When you have finished, paint your ad on a separate sheet of paper.

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Friendly food Indicators • Understands the need to eat healthy food. • Identiﬁes healthy foods and snacks.

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• Remind the students that one of our needs is food. Explain that there are different types of food, some of which we need to eat every day and others we don’t. Display the poster and ask the students what they can see. Ask the students what groups of food are shown and why there are more of some foods and less of others. Explain that the poster shows us what sort of foods, and how much of these foods, we should eat. Discuss the need to eat from all the food groups to stay healthy, ensuring they understand different foods contain different vitamins and minerals that we need to maintain good health (our bodies cannot make these vitamins and minerals).

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Friendly food Food contains vitamins and minerals our bodies need to stay healthy. Some foods are full of good things our bodies need, and these are the foods we need to eat most of. Other foods, like some fatty and sugary foods, we don’t need to eat because they have few vitamins or minerals.

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We’re going on a picnic! Indicators • Plans for a class picnic. • Incorporates knowledge of healthy foods into food selection.

Worksheet information • As an introduction to this worksheet, read a picture book to the students about a picnic, such as This is the bear and the picnic lunch by Sarah Hayes, The most perfect spot by Diane Goode, The Bears’ picnic by Stan and Jan Berenstain or We’re going on a picnic by Pat Hutchins.

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• Tell the students that they are going to have a class picnic. Ask the students what decisions they will need to make—when and where the picnic will be, who will come to the picnic, what food should be taken and what activities there will be to make it a fun occasion. Refresh the students’ knowledge of healthy foods. Write these decisions and suggestions on the board (be aware of any food allergies among the students).

• Give each student a copy of the worksheet to complete. Once they have ﬁnished, compile the ideas on the board and with the students reach a consensus as to when and where the picnic should be held, what food and equipment will be necessary, and what games will be played. Together with the students, work out what food and drink you will purchase from the shop and who will prepare the foods.

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• Cover paper plates with a square of red and white checked tablecloth (paper or plastic) onto which students glue pictures cut from magazines of healthy picnic foods. • Look for famous artworks of picnics. Students can analyse the styles of painting (such as the impressionistic works of Monet and Cézanne) and paint their own picnic scenes.

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More fun than food! Indicators • Identiﬁes fun social activities other than eating. • Creates a short play about initiating and participating in social activites other than eating.

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• Discuss how eating is something we tend to do with others, such as family and friends; it is a social activity.

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• Discuss other social activities that students could do which might be more fun than eating food! Ask for suggestions as to other activities that people do together, such as going for walks, going for bike rides, going to the beach, ball games, treasure hunts, playing marbles, cards and dancing.

• Give each student a copy if the worksheet. Read the poem with the students. They then write (or draw if necessary) four social activities that they could do as an alternative to eating. Once they have completed Activity 1, they then go around the class and try to ﬁnd, through questioning other students, someone else in the class who enjoys doing each activity.

• With one of these people they create a short play, starting with the suggested (or a similar) introductory line, to demonstrate how they could suggest an activity different to eating next time they are invited to do something by a friend.

• Chart the different activities enjoyed by the class. Work out which activities are the most popular.

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NSW

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PHS1.12, COS1.1, PHS1.12

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Why do I need a home? Indicator • Identiﬁes different features of homes and how these features help us survive.

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• Give each student a copy of the worksheet. Read the text with them and explain that they are required to label each feature of the home, then write how that feature fulﬁls a need/needs. Students then write any other features they can think of that a home has that fulﬁls a need, such as cupboards to store clothes, electricity, heating and cooling, and a place to be with family.

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• Students could paint an imaginary house with as many special features to keep them safe and secure as they can incorporate.

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Why do I need a home? Our homes keep us safe and protected. Different parts of our homes do different things to help us survive.

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Homes here and there Indicators • Understands that people adapt their homes to suit the environment. • Draws homes with features suitable for different environments.

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• Explain that homes are different from place to place. A major reason homes differ is because of the environment. People build their homes differently in order to survive in different environments. Things such as temperature, rainfall, winds, landforms and available building materials in the area affect the way homes are built. Give the students the example that, in many parts of Australia, the weather can be quite hot, so many houses have verandahs, pitched roofs and air-conditioning. Importantly, mention that in places where heavy rains or ﬂooding occurs, houses are built on stilts so the people and their belongings can stay dry. In countries with heavy snow, the roofs are often sharply pitched to help the snow to fall off them.

procedure. Students then draw a house that they think would suit each child, to meet his or her needs in that particular environment.

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NSW

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village in Malaysia. It rains a lot here and sometimes it floods. There is lots of wood and bamboo near our village. It is hot, too, but we dont have airconditioning to cool us down.

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Why should I exercise? Indicators • Describes the physical and emotional beneﬁts of exercise. • Identiﬁes and draws three enjoyable ways to exercise.

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• Ask the students to reﬂect on our needs, one of which is exercise.

• Ask the students why they think exercise is a need. What might happen if we don’t exercise? What does exercise do to us to help us stay alive?

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– improving psychological well-being

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• Ask for some suggestions as to ways we can be active and exercise. Write the suggestions on the board.

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• Students could design and make posters encouraging other students in their school to exercise.

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NSW

RES1.5, RES1.6, WES1.9, WSES1.11

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Why should I exercise? Exercising helps our bones, lungs and muscles to be strong, stops us becoming overweight, helps stop us getting some diseases and can make us happier and more confident. Exercise doesn’t have to be hard work ... it can be great fun! Jumping on the trampoline, bushwalking, swinging, kicking a football with friends or going for a swim are all great ways to exercise. 1.

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Everybody needs a friend! Indicators • Understands that people join or form groups to satisfy the need for friendship and a sense of belonging. • Identiﬁes a variety of groups children could belong to.

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• Discuss the statement ‘Everybody needs a friend’. Ask students how they would feel if they had to be on their own all the time. Talk about the groups they form at school to play games or ‘hang out’ with during break times.

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• Students write about a group they belong to in the speech bubble and draw themselves discussing the group. The group may not be an organised club. For example, it could be a friendship group the student has at school. Students share what they wrote with a small group.

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• Read and discuss the groups the children on the worksheet belong to and what they enjoy most about being part of that group. Students can relate more information about the groups if any of them are in a similar group or club.

• Create a class display of photographs, uniforms, equipment, trophies, badges and so on from groups students belong to. group.

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• Brainstorm to list groups in the community available to only children, adults and children and only adults.

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• Sort the groups above into categories such as sporting, religious, artisitic, cultural or leisure.

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SSS1.7

TS1.1, TS1.2, R1.5, RS1.6, WES1.9, WS1.11

1.10, 1.11

2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.9, 2.12

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SRP 1.1, SRP 2.2

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SOSE0202, SOSE0203

ICP 2, R 2.1, R 2.2, NSS 2.3

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Refer to curriculum documents on <http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au> ENSL0201, ENSL0202, ENSL0204, ENRE0201, ENRE0202, ENRE0204, ENWR0201, ENWR0204

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Everybody needs a friend! Everybody needs a friend! Of course, there are times when we do things on our own. But we all have the need for friendship and to belong to a group. One way to do this is to join a group or club. Read about the groups these children belong to.

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Hi! I’m Anil. I belong to the South Park Football Club. Our coach teaches us skills such as how to dribble and pass the ball. We play a proper game on Sunday mornings. It’s great fun!

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Hi! I’m Riley. I belong to Cub Scouts. We have great fun learning new things each week. Last week we made model racing cars from recycled materials. This week we’re racing them against each other!

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My name is Jorja. I’m a nipper at Beachton Surf Lifesaving Club. We learn how to be safe in the surf and get fit at the same time. My favourite activity is beach sprinting.

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Write about a group you belong to in the speech bubble and draw yourself speaking.

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Same needs–Different ways Indicators • Understands that people from different cultures and places can satisfy their needs in different ways. • Compares the way a culture or country satisﬁes its needs with his or her own.

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• Revise the basic needs as described on the worksheet. If possible, show pictures from magazines, prepared charts etc. of foods, houses, clothing and physical activities from other countries and cultures. Discuss how the majority of cultures do not wear their traditional clothes every day of the year, only on special occasions or by certain sections of their culture. Also discuss how things such as weather, climate and geography are factors that determine the type of clothing worn and houses built.

• Provide students with books to look through about other countries to find information about other cultures. Students could work in pairs or small groups to find examples and report it back to the class. Findings could be collated on the whiteboard for students to choose a country or culture, which they then copy onto their worksheet. They then write notes to explain how their own family satisfies similar needs.

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SSS1.7, CUS1.3, CUS1.4

TS1.1, TS1.2, R1.5, RS1.6, WES1.9, WS1.11

1.4, 1.7, 2.7, 1.10, 2.10, 1.11

2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.9, 2.12

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PS 2.1, CI 2.1, CI 2.3, CI 2.3, SRP 1.1

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SOSE0202, SOSE0203

ICP 2, PS 2.2, R 2.1, R 2.2, NSS 2.3

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• Look into why houses can be built in speciﬁc ways. For example, in snowy places, houses are usually built with steep, pointed roofs so the snow will slide off; in swampy places with lots of rain, houses are often built on stilts.

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Refer to curriculum documents on <http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au> ENSL0201, ENSL0202, ENSL0204, ENRE0201, ENRE0202, ENRE0204, ENWR0201, ENWR0204

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Same needs–Different ways Everybody around the world has the same basic needs of food, shelter, clothes, physical activity, love and friendship. Different cultures satisfy these in different ways; for example, many people in India wear the traditional ‘sari’, while people in places like America wear ‘Western’ clothing.

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Choose a country or culture of your choice and find out how it provides the basic needs listed below. Compare it with your own.

Food

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Plant interview Indicators • Identifies the basic needs of plants required in order for them to grow. • Identifies that different plants require those needs in different proportions. • Identifies that plants have adapted to provide those needs according to their environment.

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• To complete this activity, students will need to choose a plant they know about or would like to know more about. They will need to locate and read information about the plant. This could be done individually, in pairs, in groups or as a whole class.

• Before they do this, discuss what plants need in order to grow: air, water, soil and sunlight. Ask why they need these things. Also discuss that different plants need different amounts of each need. Plants have made adaptations according to their environment. For example, plants such as cacti that live in a dry, hot environment have ﬂeshy leaves that hold water; plants that live in a dark environment do not need direct sunlight for photosynthesis to take place (the process of turning sunlight into food and energy). The amount of water needed, which also contains minerals and nutrients, varies among plants. Plants also grow in different soil. They get nutrients from the soil and grow different root systems according to the type of soil. Note: This is a complex issue, but the main idea is for students to identify plants’ basic needs and how they have adapted to suit an environment that is lacking or has an overabundance of a need.

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answers. Students swap roles. They then draw a picture of their plant. The interview can be repeated to the class (this time, without recording answers). Interview sheets can be displayed for others to read and view.

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• Create charts of pictures from magazines, photographs or those students draw of plants with different adaptations. Include appropriate labels and explanations.

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• Grow fast-growing seeds such beans or wheat and vary the amounts of light, water and food given to each. Observe what happens and record and compare results. • Observe plants in the school grounds to see if any aren’t growing properly and why their needs are not being provided for.

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LTS1.3, ESS1.6, INVS1.7

TS1.1, TS1.2, R1.5, RS1.6, WES1.9, WS1.11

1.5, 2.5

2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.9, 2.12

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LL 2.1, LL 2.2, LL 2.3, DLL 2.5

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Plant interview What kind of plant are you?

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How much water do you need to grow?

How do you get water?

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What kind of environment do you live in?

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Animal needs Indicators • Identiﬁes the basic needs of animals. • Compares the basic needs of animals with those of people’s. • Compares how different animals obtain their needs.

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• To complete this activity, students will need to choose two animals that are quite different from each other; i.e. have different coverings and habitat. They may have some prior knowledge but will need to ﬁnd extra information about each animal to answer the questions in the table. This could be done individually, in pairs, in groups or as a whole class.

• Before they do this, discuss what animals need—food, water, shelter. Ask why they need these things. Compare with people’s needs. Discuss how these needs are the same but animals obtain them differently; for example: they don’t buy, grow or cook their food—they catch it or forage for it. Also discuss how pet animals, such as dogs, have other needs—love, grooming and physical exercise.

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• Sort animals into categories according to how they get their needs; e.g. shelter: burrow, nest, tree hollow, cave; food: hunt in packs, graze on grass, sting/poison; water: absorb through skin, drink. • Construct models of animal shelters. Label appropriate parts and display.

• Make a list of different types of pets and what people have to do to provide for their needs.

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English

NSW

LTES1.3, LTS1.3, ESS1.6, INVS1.7

TS1.1, TS1.2, R1.5, RS1.6, WS1.9, WS1.11

1.5, 2.5

2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.9, 2.12

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LL 2.1, LL 2.2, LL 2.3, DLL 2.5

Vic.

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I 2.1, I 2.3, LL 2

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Refer to curriculum documents on <http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au> ENSL0201, ENSL0202, ENSL0204, ENRE0201, ENRE0202, ENRE0204, ENWR0201, ENWR0204 LS 2.1, LS 2.4, V 2.1, R 2.1, R 2.2, W 2.4

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Animal needs Like us, animals are living things and have needs, too. They need food, water and shelter. Some need to live in a group or pairs to help provide these needs. Others can provide for themselves.

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Choose two animals that are quite different from each other and answer the questions in the table below.

How does it get its food?

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What kind of shelter does it need to find or build?

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What kind of covering does it need?

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