This is a lesson on different types of resources: natural, human, and capital.

1. Dr. Joseph
RED 6546
Mary Anne Ellis

2.  Disciplinary
Vocabulary:
 Capital Resources
 Natural Resources
 Human Resources
 Goods
 services
 Related Vocabulary:
 Barter
 Trade
 sell

3.  CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9 Analyze how
two or more texts address similar topics
 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.6 Acquire and use
accurately a range of general academic and
domain-specific words and phrases sufficient
for reading, writing, speaking, and listening
 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate
understanding of a text, referring explicitly to
the text as the basis for the answers.

4. STANDARD SS.3.E.1.1 Standard 1: Beginning
Economics
Give examples of how scarcity results in trade.
STANDARD SS.3.E.1.3 Standard 1: Beginning
Economics
Recognize that buyers and sellers interact to
exchange goods and services through the use
of trade or money.

5.  http://www.kidseconposters.com/posters/the-
basics/natural-resources/
 Prior to introducing this text, create a poster or
bulletin board with pictures of natural
resources, human resources, and capital resources.
(compare and contrast the types of resources)

6.  Resource is a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can
be readily drawn upon when needed. (www.dictionary.reference.com)
 What are different kinds of Resources?
 (Natural resources, human resources, capital resources)
 Natural resources are used to produce goods and services. Natural
resources are necessary for production.
 Human resources are the people who work to produce those goods
and services.
 Capital resources are the tools used by the people to make the
goods and services.
 Create a graphic organizer with 3 columns and discuss the different
types of resources.

7. Read to the class
A New Coat for Anna
 Author: Harriet Ziefert
 Illustrator: Anita Lobel
 Published: 1988
 Reading Level: .5
 Grade Level: PreK - 3
 Lexile Measure: 690L
 Publisher: Knopf

8.  Comprehension Questions:
 Explain how Anna could get a new coat for the
winter without any money.
Her mother traded a gold watch and other nice
things for wool and the services of the craft people to
make the coat.
Explain why Anna and her mother had no money.
It was wartime and no one had any money.

9.  List all the trades Anna's mother made in order to get
the new coat.
Gold watch to the farmer for wool; a lamp to the old
woman to spin wool into yarn; garnet necklace to the
weaver to weave yarn into cloth; teapot to the tailor for
sewing cloth into a coat.
What natural resources were needed to produce the
coat?
Wool from the sheep, lingonberries.
 List all the steps for producing Anna's new coat.
Shear the sheep, spin the wool into yarn, dye the
yarn, weave yarn into cloth, sew the cloth into coat.

10. • After reading A New Coat for Anna, discuss and list the
different types of resources found within the story.
 ELL Accommodations: Provide pictures of each resource listed on the
chart.
Natural Resources Human Resources Capital Resources
Sheep
berries
farmer
old woman
girl and mother
weaver
tailor
shearing scissors
spinning wheel
basket (for berries)
loom
measuring tape, sewing
machine, scissors, pins

11.  Video on Natural Resources
 Go to www.youtube.com and paste in the
following link.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wiKrZ
Y5GVw
 KidsClassroom Grade 3- Science-Natural
Resources

12.  Wind, plants, animals, air, soil, and sunlight are forms
of _______ resources.
 _____ gives us a place for farming.
 Living things need ______ to breathe.
 _____ is necessary for all living things to survive.
 _____ gives the Earth warmth and energy.
 (Natural, Soil (or land), Air, Water, Sunlight)

13. • Model for students how to make a Diamante poem using two
different ideas/concepts.
 (Consider modeling, using different concept such as night/day
or summer/winter, so not to have students copy the sample)
 Discuss adjectives, nouns, and -ing ending words.
 Have students choose two of the types of resources
and create a poem using the interactive application
below.
 http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-
resources/student-interactives/diamante-poems-
30053.html