1. Natural Resources
The students should be able to identify natural resources, such as plants and animals, water, air, land, minerals, forests, and soil.
Introduction

2. Plants
How Do You Use Plants?

3. Animals
How Are Animals Resources?

4. Air
How Do We Use Air?

5. Water
How Do YOU Use Water?

6. Land and Soil
How Do YOU use Land and Soil?

7. Minerals
Minerals are naturally occurring substances that originally came from rock, such as phosphorous, bauxite, iron, salt, gold, silver, copper, and potassium. Many minerals are essential for the healthy growth of plants and animals.

8. Forests
Forests have moderate climate, help cleanse the air and water, and house wildlife. They also provide thousands of wood products and related jobs.

9. Natural Resources Chart
Object Made by People, Using This Resource
Animals
Land and Soil
Minerals
Water
Plants
Forests
Air

10. We are running out of these natural resources! What can we do to help??
Reuse-
Reduce-Don’t use so much
Recycle-Use trash bins to recycle plastic, paper and cans.

11. Resource
Can you
Identify the
Things that
Come from
Trees or
Wood?

12. Reuse
Can you think of ways YOU could reuse these items?

13. Reuse
What other items in your house could you reuse?

14. Activity Using your resource worksheet.
List/draw as many items as you can that come from trees.
List as many items as you can that come from METAL minerals found in the Earth
Draw three ways a box can be REUSED.