Needs vs. Wants cooking lesson

We didn't really cook per say, but our cooking lesson revolved around determining whether certain foods were needs or wants.  The students did an awesome job with placing the food in the correct spot.  This activity really seemed to click with them. 

I placed 2 paper towels in each students spot and labeled them "needs" and "wants".

I would show the students one food item at a time.  After giving each child a piece of the food, they determined which napkin "needs" or "wants" the food needed to go on.  After we went through all of the snacks, they ate!  Every single one of my students went for the gigantic marshmallows first!

~Jessica

Needs vs. Wants workstation task

Here is a workstation task that I created to go along with our Needs vs. Wants lessons which is part of the April Unit in Unique Learning System. 

This was a very simple workstation task that I created for the students.  The pictures I used came from my Boardmaker software.  Students sort the pictures onto the file folder according to whether it is a need or want.

~Jessica