Books
Earth's Resources By Sue Barroclaugh
Earth's Resources By Sue Barroclaugh. (2008). Heinmenn-Raintree Publishing Company. 32p. (978-1432914103). Gr. K-3.
This book not only teaches kids about natural resources, but it also formats the lesson into a bunch of scientific questions, where they are able to hypothesize and predict different answers before they turn the page to discover the answer.
Earth's Resources By Sue Barroclaugh. (2008). Heinmenn-Raintree Publishing Company. 32p. (978-1432914103). Gr. K-3.
This book not only teaches kids about natural resources, but it also formats the lesson into a bunch of scientific questions, where they are able to hypothesize and predict different answers before they turn the page to discover the answer.
Dirt: the scoop on soil By Natalie Roskinsky
Dirt: the scoop on soil. By Natalie Roskinsky. Illustrated by Sheree Boyd. (2002). Picture Window Books. 24p. (978-1404803312). Gr.K-3.
This book uses a hands-on approach by starting the story off with an experiment that young readers can feel like they are actually helping with. The book is written by an award-winning author and offers a great way to simplify soil for students.
Natural Resources Investigate By Louise Spilsbury
Natural Resources Investigate. By Louise Spilsbury. (2009). Heinemenn-Raintree Publishing Company. (978-1432934781). Gr.1-4.
This book answers the question of what natural resources humans need to live by. It offers great pictures and a fun way to explore how natural resources impact of our everyday lives.
Websites
Find Earth Materials
This website offers a great game for students to learn about natural resources. It even offers a word bank that the child is able to scroll over to see the definition of each vocabulary word.
Keeping our Waters Clean Game
This website is very appealing to children and even has a colorful fox directing the viewer as soon as they click on the site. Students are able to watch items that are about to drop into a lake and decide whether they need to throw the item out, if it could potentially harm the clean water, or let it enter the water.
Meet the Greens
This website offers kid-friendly videos and ideas for reducing the waste of natural resources. It is a site made for children and has great visuals.
This website offers a great game for students to learn about natural resources. It even offers a word bank that the child is able to scroll over to see the definition of each vocabulary word.
Keeping our Waters Clean Game
This website is very appealing to children and even has a colorful fox directing the viewer as soon as they click on the site. Students are able to watch items that are about to drop into a lake and decide whether they need to throw the item out, if it could potentially harm the clean water, or let it enter the water.
Meet the Greens
This website offers kid-friendly videos and ideas for reducing the waste of natural resources. It is a site made for children and has great visuals.
Lesson Plans & Activities
What are natural resources? Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is a great way to introduce what natural resources are to young students. It includes vocabulary, a great activity, as well as a a worksheet to further assess the students' understanding of the materials.
Smart Tech Natural Resources Lesson Plans
This link will guide you to a number of different lesson plans on natural resources that can be connected to a smart board, to allow students to really interact in the lesson. Each lesson offers great visuals and fun ways to uncover natural resources.
Recycle and Reuse Lesson Plan
This lesson plan would be great to use after the students understand what natural resources are. It's a great way to teach children why recycling is so important and various ways that you can recycle and reuse things.
This lesson plan is a great way to introduce what natural resources are to young students. It includes vocabulary, a great activity, as well as a a worksheet to further assess the students' understanding of the materials.
Smart Tech Natural Resources Lesson Plans
This link will guide you to a number of different lesson plans on natural resources that can be connected to a smart board, to allow students to really interact in the lesson. Each lesson offers great visuals and fun ways to uncover natural resources.
Recycle and Reuse Lesson Plan
This lesson plan would be great to use after the students understand what natural resources are. It's a great way to teach children why recycling is so important and various ways that you can recycle and reuse things.
Assessments
Preserving natural resources Worksheet
This worksheet is a great way to assess whether the students understand what activities in our daily lives affect our natural resources.
Coloring Worksheet
This worksheet has students identify the natural resource and then discuss some of the different ways that that particular resource is used.
Collage art project: natural resources
This is a great project to give students after they have learned about natural resources, to see if they can identify them. It is a great hands-on activity.
This worksheet is a great way to assess whether the students understand what activities in our daily lives affect our natural resources.
Coloring Worksheet
This worksheet has students identify the natural resource and then discuss some of the different ways that that particular resource is used.
Collage art project: natural resources
This is a great project to give students after they have learned about natural resources, to see if they can identify them. It is a great hands-on activity.