• What is the difference between our Needs and Wants in life?
• What is necessary for our survival, compared to a desire or want that we have? Do our needs in life change based on communities, cultures and age, or are they similar? Do our needs change based on where we live in the world, i.e., warmer or colder climates?
• How does our community meet and support our needs?
• How do we get our needs met?
• Are eye glasses, wheelchairs, asthma inhalers and epipens examples of needs in one’s life? Why or why not?

Above are some of the big questions that Division 7 explored together as a class. Ask your young citizen some of these big thinking questions and continue to have a family discussion.