Resources at Work gives 3rd graders four linked tasks on natural, human, and capital resources. They match five terms to definitions and six examples, such as fresh river water and a carpenter building a desk, to their resource type. Then they join four bread resources to pictures. A last question asks what it takes to make a wooden chair. The 4-page resource meets C3 Framework D2.Eco.3.3-5, and the answer key covers each match and the chair answer.
D2.Eco.3.3-5
“Identify examples of the variety of resources (human capital, physical capital, and natural resources) that are used to produce goods and services.”
All four tasks, most directly the bread pictures, where wheat, the baker, and the oven show the three resource types behind one product.
Five terms, including goods and services, each get a letter. The first, C for natural resource, is filled in.
Six examples, from a tractor on a farm to a doctor helping a patient, match to descriptions such as "A capital resource used to bake bread."
Students join wheat, a baker, an oven, and a flour mill to pictures of a wheat stalk, a baker in a chef hat, a bakery oven, and a stone mill.
Students name one natural, one human, and one capital resource needed to make a wooden chair.
Mini lesson
The flour mill surprises students who expect capital resources to be small tools. Mention before the bread match that buildings count too.
Common mix-up
In Examples Matching, the carpenter and the doctor are both human resources. Students who stop reading at "human resource" swap B and D, so point them to the furniture and the health service at the end of each line.
Exit task
Use the wooden chair question alone as an exit slip. An answer with wood, a carpenter, and a saw shows all three types at once.
Get started today
