September 28, 2015
By Sanayya Sohail

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Natural Resources

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Students will be able to define a natural resource. Students will be able to identify the main natural resources present in the Earth.

(5 minutes)
  • To begin the lesson, ask your students to tell you the first thing they think of when they hear each of these words: plant, water, soil.
  • Ask your class is anyone knows what a natural resource is. Encourage your students to make educated guesses.
  • Once the class has come up with a few answers, explain that a Natural resourceIs a substance found in the Earth naturally.
(15 minutes)
  • Write the words plants, soil, and water on the board. Explain that these are the three main types of natural resources.
  • Start a class discussion about the importance of plants. Great questions include: Why are plants important? Could we live without plants? How do plants help us stay alive? How do plants help animals?
  • Explain that plants provide us with food, oxygen to help us breathe, and protection through homes and fire. Plants make and protect soil, feed animals, shelter animals, and are used to make clothes and many medicines.
  • Ask your students about the importance of soil. Great discussion questions include: What is soil? Why is it important? What would our lives be like without soil? Could we live without it? Why or why not?
  • Share that soil contains important nutrients that plants and humans need to stay alive. Soil also helps plants retain the moisture they need to grow and thrive.
  • Finally, ask your students about the importance of water. Suggested questions include: Could we live without water? What about plants and animals? How long could someone survive without water?
  • Explain that water is the most essential natural resource that the Earth gives us, and that plants, animals, and people would die without it.
(30 minutes)
  • Pair off students a partner, or ask them to find someone to work with.
  • Assign each pair the Water Resources, Plant Resources, and Soil Resources worksheets to complete together.
(20 minutes)
  • Ask your students to complete the Natural Resources Word Find.
  • Enrichment:Ask your students to pick a topic out of plants, water, and soil to research. Send these students to the library to choose a book about their topic, or assist them with getting online. Each student should write five benefits about their topic that they learned from the book.
  • Support:Ask your students to draw two columns on a sheet of paper. Ask them to label the first column KnowAnd the second column Learned. Ask your students to write information they know about plants, soil, and water in the know column. Together, review the information that they know, and discuss some things they may not know. Afterward, instruct them to fill the LearnedColumn with the new information that they learned.
(10 minutes)
  • Ask your students to write one benefit of plants, one benefit of water, and one benefit of soil in their notebooks or on sheets of lined paper.
(15 minutes)
  • Ask your students to present one of their worksheets from the guided practise to the class.
  • Encourage your class to find three objects at home that were made, directly or indirectly, using plants, water, and soil.

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