A Visit to Trader Joe’s Grocery Store Meeting Basic Human Needs Created by: Karese L. Raibon.

A Visit to Trader Joe’s Grocery Store

Meeting Basic Human NeedsCreated by: Karese L. Raibon

Content ObjectiveSocial Studies: K.6A & K.6C

Today, we will identify basic human needs of food, clothing, and shelter. In addition, we will explain how basic human needs can be met, such as through self-producing, purchasing, and trading.

First, we will define “basic human needs”

Next, we will discuss how to met one of the basic human needs - food

Then, we will take a virtual field trip to Trader Joe’s Grocery Store

Lastly, we will discuss how Trader Joe’s helps met one of our basic human need - food

Language Objective:ELPS 2E & K.16B

The class will participate in a virtual field trip to Trader Joe’s Grocery Store by using visual, contextual and linguistic support to understand more complex spoken language with support. In addition, as a class we will discuss what we saw during the virtual field trip speaking in complete sentences to communicate.

Content Vocabulary – basic human needs, shelter, virtual field trip, virtual tour, purchase, grocery store, isles, check-out options, dwell, market

Use complete sentences to describe what you saw

What are basic human needs?

Basic human needs are important things you need in order to live. Basic human needs include:

Food

Shelter (Housing – A place where you stay or dwell)

Clothing

Basic human needs keep us healthy and safe. Today, we will focus on one of the basis human needs listed above – Food.

Where do we find food?

Food can be found: Outside in a personal garden – self producing Visiting a grocery store – purchasing Exchanging at a market – trading

Let’s explore how we purchase food in a grocery store! Today, we are taking a virtual field trip to Trader Joe’s Grocery Store. Before we start the adventure, draw a picture of two food

items you might find at Trader Joe’s Grocery Store. Label your pictures. (Complete the Before the Trip Assessment)

During the tour, try to find the food items you drew as well as food items you would purchase at Trader Joe’s that meets basic human needs.

Off to Trader Joe’s ………

Bread

Apples

Chips

Fish

What types of food did you see at Trader Joe’s?

Use the below sentence frames and identify the food you saw during our Trader Joe’s grocery tour:

I saw _______.

________ is a food item.

Food is a basic human need.

How does Trader Joe’s Grocery Store help met our basic human needs?

Trader Joe’s is a grocery store.

We can purchase food at Trader Joe’s.

Food is a basic human need.

Food keeps us healthy.

We need food in order to live.

Please complete the After the Trip Assessment about basic human needs.

We are back at school!

Hope you enjoyed the trip.

We can now identify basic human needs – shelter, clothing and food.

We can explain how to met one of our basic human needs – food.

We can explain how to purchase food from a grocery store.

See you later!

Reference

SMRfilms30000. (2012). Retrieved from youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-9zrsixBWU