Natural Resources to Finished Products

1. Natural Resources to Finished Products Grade 3 Social Studies Online

2. Blueprint: Economics • Distinguish the difference between a natural resource and finished product.  books to chair & desk tree

3. Natural Resources • Natural resources are substances we obtain from the land, water, and air around us. • People use many of the Earth's natural resources. All of the products we use have a natural resource base. Minerals, forest products, water, and soil are just a few of the natural resources humans use to produce energy and make things people use.

4. Renewable Resources • Some natural resources can be reproduced within a few years or decades. These are called renewable resources. Trees, water, plants, and air are examples of renewable resources.

5. Non-renewable Resources • Underground minerals must be mined or dug upfrom the earth. • Some of these minerals are gold,silver, salt, iron, diamonds, petroleum and coal. • Oil, minerals, and soil take hundreds, thousands and even millions of years to be made. These are called non-renewable resources.

6. EXAMPLES TO apple pie apple tree

7. Classroom Activities • Label objects from as many natural resources possible that are found in your classroom. • Then sort the list into the different catagories.

8. Resources • http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/world/nres.html • http://www.mii.org/pdfs/classroom.pdf