Communities Meet Their
Needs and Wants
Mrs. Martin
Grade 3
Learning Goals
 People in communities have needs and wants.
 They work at different types of jobs to make
money in order to meet their needs and wants.
 Sometimes people have to make choices about
their needs and wants
 There are different types of jobs people have;
manufacturing, service, and agricultural.
Vocabulary
 Needs
 Wants
 Goods
 Services
 Manufacturing
 producer
 agriculture
Renewable resource
Non renewable
resource
Scarcity
Interdependence
Trade
Transportation
communication
Needs
 What a person must have to survive
 Food,
water,
air
Wants
 Things we would like to have but do not need
in order to survive.
We need healthy food, we want chocolate
cake.
Goods
 Things people make or grow and then sell
 Corn, books, video games
Services
 Jobs that one person does for another
person. Jobs that help someone do
something.
teacher
dentist
bus driver
Service jobs
 Nurses, doctors, teachers, waiter/waitress,
postal worker, police officer and more!
manufacturing
 To make a finished product from raw
materials
producer
 A person who makes a product
agriculture
 Growing crops and raising animals for a job
or business
Renewable resource
 A resource (something we use) that can be
replaced in a short time.
 For example trees/wood
Non-renewable resource
 A non-renewable resource cannot be
replaced or it takes a very long time to be
replaced.
 For example:
 coal, oil
scarcity
 Not enough of something that people want or
need
 Water and trees are scarce in the desert.
interdependence
 Depending on each other to meet needs and
wants
 We must depend on people from Maine to get
lobster. People from Florida depend on us
for our apples. People from Maine depend
on Florida for oranges.
interdependence
New York
Maine
Florida
trade
 To buy or sell goods and services
transportation
 To move goods and people from one place to
another
communication
 Sharing of information or news.
Timeline
 A chart used to show events over a period of
time