Questions about the Wants and Needs poster

What’s on the Wants and Needs poster?

NEEDS against WANTS, side by side. NEEDS: Food and clean water; NEEDS: Somewhere to live; NEEDS: Clothes to keep warm; NEEDS: Someone to look after you; NEEDS: Being safe and well; WANTS: Sweets and fizzy drinks; WANTS: Toys and games; WANTS: A television; WANTS: Trainers with the right logo; WANTS: A day out; You cannot live without a need. You can live perfectly well without a want — you just…. Wants are not bad. Knowing which is which is what makes choosing possible.

Who is the Wants and Needs poster for?

Wants and Needs is filed under 1st Grade (ages 6–7), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting social studies, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.

When should you use the Wants and Needs poster?

Sort a shopping list into the two columns. Some items will start an argument, which is the point. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Wants and Needs belongs on the wall where that social studies work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Wants and Needs?

3D Shapes, Adding zero and Adding one sit alongside Wants and Needs in the 1st Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.3D ShapesAdding zeroAdding one

Is the Wants and Needs poster free to download and print?

Yes. Wants and Needs downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 1st Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Wants and Needs poster print at?

Wants and Needs is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Wants and Needs loses nothing.Printing guide