Natural or Human-Made?

3rd Grade Social StudiesNatural Resources3 pages

About this worksheet

Fourteen small pictures start this 3rd grade natural resources sheet. Tree, river, rock, sunlight, cotton plant, sheep and crude oil are natural, while a wooden chair, glass bottle, cotton T-shirt, wool sweater, plastic toy, brick house and paper are human-made. Students write each name in a two-column chart. Part 2 gives five products and a box of resources, and students write where each one comes from, such as sand for the glass bottle and oil for the plastic toy. Page 3 is the answer key.

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Natural or Human-Made?: Natural Resources - page 1

Natural or Human-Made?: Natural Resources - page 2

Natural or Human-Made?: Natural Resources - page 3

Curriculum objectives covered

“Tell natural resources from human-made products.”

Part 1 asks for all fourteen pictures to be sorted, including the harder ones such as sunlight, sheep and crude oil.

“Trace a product back to the natural resource it is made from.”

Part 2 pairs the wooden chair with trees, the glass bottle with sand, the T-shirt with cotton, the sweater with sheep's wool and the plastic toy with oil.

What's inside this worksheet

Sort the Pictures

Fourteen labeled photos sit above a chart with seven lines under NATURAL and seven under HUMAN-MADE. Students write each name in the right column.

Match the Product to Its Natural Resource

Five products (wooden chair, glass bottle, T-shirt, wool sweater, plastic toy) and a box listing cotton, oil, sand, sheep's wool and trees. Students write the resource on the line for each product.

Answer key

Both chart columns filled in, and the five product and resource pairs.

How teachers use it

Argue the edge cases

Paper and a brick house are in the human-made column, but both start as something natural. Ask students what was done to trees or clay to make them, and let the chart stand once they can say it.

Follow one chain

Pick the wool sweater and draw the chain on the board: sheep, wool, yarn, sweater. Then students choose a second product from Part 2 and write its chain in their notebooks.

Exit ticket

Part 2 is short enough to use on its own at the end of a lesson. Five answers in two minutes show who can link a product to its source.

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