Curated and Reviewed by
Lesson Planet
This I Want It! I Need It! lesson plan also includes:
- Activity
- Game
- Join to access all included materials
Discuss wants and needs with your elementary ecologists and get them to consider what would happen to our natural resources if we all got everything that we want. Learners play a card sorting game and take an ecological footprint quiz on the Internet.
357 Views
285 Downloads
Concepts
Additional Tags
Pros
- Cute and colorful cards make the game memorable
- A pertinent lesson in considering our own impact on the environment
- Excellent extension suggestions provided
- Helps meet Next Generation Science Standards for fourth grade
Cons
- The link to the ecological footprint quiz in the lesson plan does not work, but you can easily find others online on sites such as http://www.myfootprint.org/