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🗺️ 4th Grade · Social StudiesD2.Eco.2.3-5Unit 4: Resources & the economy

Three kinds of resources

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🎯 Objective: Students classify natural, human and capital resources.

Lesson outline

  1. Sort.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: one of each.

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📐 Standard

D2.Eco.2.3-5

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe natural, human and capital resources
  • Explain trade between regions

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Resources & the economy”

  1. Three kinds of resources
  2. Trade between regions
  3. Budgets

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