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WS02 - Needs versus wants

Humanities and Social Sciences, HASS F–6, Year 5

By the end of Year 5, students explain the causes of the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800. They explain the roles of significant individuals or groups in the development of an Australian colony and the impact of those developments. They explain the influence of people on the characteristics of places and in the management of spaces. Students explain the key values and features of Australia’s democracy and how people achieve civic goals. They explain the nature of resources, and how they meet needs and wants.

 

Students develop questions and locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources. They evaluate sources to determine origin and perspectives. Students evaluate information and data to identify and describe patterns or trends. They suggest conclusions based on evidence. Students consider criteria in proposing actions or responses. Students select ideas and findings from sources and use relevant terms and conventions, to present descriptions and explanations.

Knowledge and understanding | Economics and Business

AC9HS5K08

types of resources, including natural, human and capital, and how they satisfy needs and wants

Skills | Questioning and researching

AC9HS5S02

locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources in a range of formats

Skills | Interpreting, analysing and evaluating

AC9HS5S03

evaluate information and data in a range of formats to identify and describe patterns and trends, or to infer relationships

Skills | Concluding and decision-making

AC9HS5S05

develop evidence-based conclusions

Skills | Concluding and decision-making

AC9HS5S06

propose actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects

Skills | Communicating

AC9HS5S07

present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions

Annotations

 

1. Collects, organises and evaluates information on resources to categorise those that are wants.

 

2. Collects, organises and evaluates information on resources to categorise those that are needs.

 

3. Describes how products that provide entertainment are wants as they are not needed for our survival.

 

4. Describes how products that keep people healthy and clean are needs as they are needed for survival.

Annotations

 

1. Locates and evaluates information to identify the importance of natural resources in meeting human needs.

 

2. Locates and evaluates information to explain how people can be a human resource to meet some of their own food needs.

Annotations

 

1. Locates and evaluates information to identify that there is a relationship between increasing natural resources and decreasing capital resources.

 

2. Locates and evaluates information to explain that processed foods involve the use of more capital resources, such as machines, in their production.

 

3. Locates and evaluates information to explain, using relevant terms such as “supply”, that people can meet some of their food needs by using themselves as the human resource, and minimising capital resources such as pesticides.