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Necessities and Luxuries
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Necessities and Luxuries
Review
Necessities and Luxuries:
WHAT DO I NEED?!
Luxuries
Necessities
What are the 2 steps of the materials economy that we have already talked about and describe them?
Luxury: a material good or service that is NOT essential to a person's life; an extravagance.
- Good morning! Today you will find a sticky note on your desk.
- Read what's on your sticky note and think about whether it's a NECESSITY or a LUXURY...or both!
- It's okay if you're not sure what this means yet! Just guess for now
- Necessity: a material good or service that is essential to a person's life; something that is required
- What does it mean to be "essential"?
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Reflections
Cow Fertilizer ~ Farmworkers ~ Bad working conditions ~ Wheat ~ Cattle feed
Grain ~ Water ~ Grazing land ~ Water ~ Grain slaughterhouse
Which items that you bought are luxuries?
Which are necessities?
What do these items say about your family?
The Consumption Combo Activity!
Priority Simulation
What about things that are both luxuries AND necessities? Is that possible?!
Why would someone need these things?
SHOES: Luxury or necessity?
Each group will be assigned a family and given $150.
What should your family spend that $150 on? You get to decide!
Group Activity Intro: Priorities
Independent Questions
- We just learned that your "necessities" depend on a LOT of things.
Necessities and luxuries are located on a continuum.
WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THAT MEAN?!
Did you agree with the purchases that your family made? Why or why not?
What did you learn about priorities in this activity?
Priority: Something that is considered more important than something else
Exit Ticket:
Exit Ticket
Draw a necessity--> luxury continuum. Place two things you have on the continuum where you think they belong.
What is one item that you or your family have bought once, and then bought a new version of?