Needs or Wants?: Needs and Wants Worksheet Download
Free social studies worksheets on needs and wants. Students read everyday examples and decide whether each one is something people need to live or something nice to have.
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Needs and Wants
Each worksheet has 15 sentences to sort as a need or a want, drawn from a bank of 70 everyday examples.
About this worksheet
Each worksheet has 15 sentences to sort as a need or a want, drawn from a bank of 70 everyday examples.
Student objectives
- Explain that needs are things people must have to live and stay healthy
- Explain that wants are things that are nice to have but people can live without
- Sort everyday examples into needs and wants
Everyday practice
- Look at a grocery list and mark which items are needs and which are wants
- Talk about what your family needs before buying something it wants
- Think about a toy you want and how you could live without it