Kindergarten IB Unit Notification
How We Organize Ourselves
Name of Unit: “Wants and Needs”
Date of Unit: March 2012
Central Idea: Money is a currency that helps people to satisfy some wants
and some needs.
Inquiry Into:
• Wants versus needs
• The need for money
• How we get goods and services
Ways to Help Support the Unit at Home:
Please send in coins for the Make A Wish Coin Drive beginning March
26.
Discuss how a family benefits from individual chores
Possible ways to earn money
Allow your child to make small purchases
Practice counting back change with your child
Discuss what items we pay for and what items are free
Do you have foreign currency from your travels? We would love for you
to bring paper and coin currency from other countries. Items will be returned
upon request!
Summative Assessment (to be completed in class):
• Students will illustrate and write a sentence about an economic need
and want. Students will also illustrate and write a sentence about a personal
need and want.