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This video is a cartoon that talks all about entrepreneurship and what it means. It gives students an idea of the fourth productive resource. It is explains the definition, gives examples, and relates it to students

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Productive resources SMARTboard activity. 

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Productive resources SMARTboard activity. 

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This is an interactive SMARTboard powerpoint about productive resources. This would be done in a whole group setting in order for students to have a chance to manipulate the SMARTboard. The presentation uses different types of food as example to teach students about the productive resources that goes into selling to goods.

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Natural, Capital, Human Resources Lessons

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Do you need to introduce Economic Resources in an exciting, interactive way? This free resource contains two lesson ideas and resources to do just that! Included: **Interactive Smartboard lesson (you can download interactive viewer for free at smarttech.com) **Hamburger Resources Printable **T...

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Carnival themed productive resources unit

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Carnival themed productive resources unit

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This blog shows a great way to have fun, engage the students, and learn all about productive resources. The students worked in groups to create a carnival booth. The students will learn about using natural, human, and capital resources to finish his/her booth and run it.

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Hello darlings! Amy here from That Teaching Spark! How do you make social studies come alive in your classroom? It can be boring and stuffy, especially if you have to teach it using a terrible text book. Thankfully Economics is one of those concepts that you can spice up! There are so many real world applications! Checkout Cassandra Hathaway's Lemonade Stand for example!

In my school, my entire grade level teaches Economics using a Carnival Theme. At the end of our unit, students work in groups to create a real carnival booth in which they provide a good or service. My students absolutely LOVE it and it is something that they talk about when they come visit me.

Check out some booths below!

Teaching the Economics concepts to get students to this point is half the fun! I'm including two free lesson ideas for teaching Natural, Capital, and Human Resources!

To teach this concept, we talk about ice cream and all the food, tools, and work needed to create it. My kiddos love using the Interactive Smartboard Lesson because they get to manipulate the screen to find the answer!

Don't have smartnotebook? No problem! You can still use it on your projector with a mouse if you download the free Interactive Viewer Software from Smart Interactive Viewer !

Next students use their knowledge to determine the Natural, Capital, and Human Resources needed to make a Hamburger!

If you would like to try the ECON CARNIVAL or just need some awesome lessons to teach your economics unit, go grab the unit below!

Have fun teaching social studies!

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Natural, Capital, and Human Resources Freebie

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Hello darlings! Amy here from That Teaching Spark! How do you make social studies come alive in your classroom? It can be boring and stuffy, especially if you have to teach it using a terrible text book. Thankfully Economics is one of those concepts that you can spice up!

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This a sing along to the tune of I've Been Working on the Railroad. The song is about making ice cream and the different resources you use to do it. The website gives a great idea to add more verses to the song using other production activities.

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I used some natural resources, Some human, and capital, too. I've been busy making ice cream, And I made it just for you!

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This online game is very popular with students in this time. It is so popular that has created different lessons on it's website for all age ranges about different educational topics. This lesson plan is all about teaching students productive resources through building a house in MineCraft. This would be an activity guided by the teacher that way she can scaffold each step of the process.

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Learning Objectives

Define productive resources.

Give examples of natural, human and capital resources.

Apply the use of productive resources as they build a house in Minecraft.

Demonstrate understanding of how uses of productive resources can enhance or diminish end products.

Guiding Ideas

SUBMITTED BY: The Council for Economic Education (CEE). For more free K-12 economic and personal finance lesson plans and resources, visit CEE's teacher site, EconEdlink.
CONCEPTS
Productive Resources, Capital Resources, Human Resources, Natural Resources

CONTENT STANDARD S

Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics: Standard 1 - Scarcity. Productive resources are limited. Therefore, people cannot have all the goods and services they want; as a result, they must choose some things and give up others.

C3 Framework: D2.Eco.3.3-5 Identify examples of the variety of resources (human, capital, physical capital, and natural resources) that are used to produce goods and services.

Common Core State Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2- Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
INTRODUCTION
Understanding productive resources, the resources required to produce goods and services that people want, is important to understanding the economic world around us. There are three kinds of productive resources: human, natural, and capital.

Human resources are the strength, education, and skills of people. Natural resources are the gifts of nature that are used to produce goods and services. Water, land, and minerals are examples of natural resources. Capital resources are the goods needed to produce or provide access to other goods and to supply services. Examples include buildings, equipment, tools, machinery, ports and other manufactured and constructed things.

In this lesson, students will learn the definitions of resources and analyze their use in building a home within Minecraft. The Minecraft activity will take up the bulk of the lesson time.
RESOURCES

Minecraft Education, available for purchase at https://education.minecraft.net/how-it-works/tech-specs/

Computers

Handout 1 - Background Information for Teachers

Handout 2 - Instructions for Building a Home in Minecraft

Visual 1 - Human Resources in Minecraft

Visual 2 - Natural Resources in Minecraft

Visual 3 - Capital Resources in Minecraft

Student Activities

PROCESS

1. Ask students what things are necessary to produce or build a house. [Answers will vary but should include such things as lumber, nails, saws, carpenters, drywall, roofers, and land.] Tell students that productive resources are the things used to produce a good or service. Point out that productive resources can be placed into three groups: human resources, natural resources or capital resources.

2. Define the types of resources as follows:-

1. Human resources are people who work to produce a good or service. Examples of human resources are a truck driver, plumber, teacher and nurse. Ask the students for other examples of human resources. Write the students' responses on the board. Then show them Visual 1 - Human Resources in Minecraft.-

2. Natural resources are things that occur naturally in the world and can be used to produce a good or service. These resources are gifts of nature and are present without human intervention. Examples of natural resources are natural gas, granite, deer and minerals. Ask the students for other examples of natural resources. Write the students' responses on the board. Then show them Visual 2 - Natural Resources in Minecraft.-

3. Capital resources are goods produced and used to make other goods and services. Examples of capital resources are an office building, computer, oven, and wrench. Ask the students for other examples of capital resources. Write the students' responses on the board. Then show them Visual 3 - Capital Resources in Minecraft.Recap by saying that productive resources are used to make goods and services that people buy every day. Ask students what things are necessary to cut hair.

4. [Answers will vary but should include things such as a comb, razor, clippers, electricity, scissors, hair stylist and so on.]Ask students to classify the productive resources used to produce a haircut as natural, human or capital resources. Record their answers on the [Answers will vary but should include the following: Capital - comb, razor, clipper; natural - water; human - hair stylist. If students name the person whose hair is cut or the hair, explain that the consumer is not considered a resource.]

MINECRAFT ACTIVITY

1. Divide students into teams of 4.

2. Tell them they will be working together to build a home in Minecraft using natural, human, and capital resources. The game should be set to multi-player mode so each student can build simultaneously.

3. Tell them when they finish their houses they will compare them to those of the other teams in terms of

Living space (Number of bedrooms? Living room? Kitchen?)

Design and amenities (Flow? Decoration? Functionality?)

Valuable additions (Farm or garden next to the house? Mining tunnel under the house?)

Property selection (Near a waterfall? Near a beach? Does the nearby landscape add or subtract from the home value?)

Which type of resource was most valuable for making the house special?

Tell students they will have 25 minutes to gather resources. They will then have 30 minutes

Performance Expectations

SUBMITTED BY: The Council for Economic Education (CEE). For more free K-12 economic and personal finance lesson plans and resources, visit CEE's teacher site, EconEdlink.
CONCLUSION
When time is up for building, each team should give a tour of their homes and the class should decide which home they liked best based on the elements in Instruction #2.
ASSESSMENT
Each student should write a reflection on the uses of productive resources in their team project:

1. Reflect on the capital resources they selected. Were they the right ones for their house? How did they affect the outcome of their home? [Answers will vary: tools, i.e. pickaxes, hoes, shovels, and axes; picked a hoe and ended up not building a farm, thus not making full use of their tools; picked two pickaxes but needed a hoe for their farm.]

2. Reflect on how they allocated their human resources during the material-gathering process: did they spend enough time and have the right number of people on the tasks?

3. Reflect on which natural resources they prioritized and how those resources contributed to their home value. How did their gathering process affect the physical appearance of the house? Were materials well allocated or does the house look unremarkable?

4. Which resources did they find most valuable in the construction and gathering processes? Can any connections be drawn between how they valued their in-game resources and how resources are valued in the real world?

Skills

Critical Thinking

Collaboration

Citizenship

Supporting Files

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LEARNING ECONOMICS: PRODUCTIVE RESOURCES | Minecraft: Education Edition

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Define productive resources. Give examples of natural, human and capital resources. Apply the use of productive resources as they build a house in Minecraft. Demonstrate understanding of how uses of productive resources can enhance or diminish end products. SUBMITTED BY: The Council for Economic Education (CEE).

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Natural,Human, and Capital resources activity pack

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Natural,Human, and Capital resources activity pack

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This activity packet can be turned into a separate productive resources journal while teaching this unit. The activity pack includes written passages and illustrations about each resource, two different resource sorts, and resource problem scenario cards.

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Natural, Human & Capital Resources Learning & Activity Pack

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Explain the difference and importance of natural, human and capital resources as well as differentiate between goods and services. Product includes reading passages with illustrations, two sorting activities and resource problem scenario cards for collaboration.

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Sortify: Natural Resources BrainPop game

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Sortify: Natural Resources BrainPop game

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This fun online game is a way for students to separate natural resources into different categories. This game will help students gain a deeper understanding of natural resources and the differences between all the resources we use as humans to make goods.

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Sortify: Natural Resources - GameUp - BrainPOP.

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In this free science game, students sort Earths’ resources into categories, including renewable, nonrenewable, and recyclable, and origins, such as forest, ocean, agriculture.

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This is a move around the room activity. There are 20 different cards that vary with examples of productive resources. They ask the student to identify which type of productive resource is being displayed or asked about in the question. This activity is a fun way to get students engaged and moving. It also allows you to do small group work on productive resources while other students participate in the independent scoot task.

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Task cards cover types of resources, capital goods, entrepreneurs, and more. There are 28 cards that specifically cover what the Georgia standards for third grade economics suggests however, the questions are general enough for various grade levels and other states. *******************************...

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This worksheet has students separate examples of capital, human, and natural resources. This is a good way to test your students knowledge of the differences between the three resources.

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Human, Natural and Capital Resources Cut and Glue Sort--Economics

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A great way for students to practice identifying resources as human, natural or capital. They have to read the words and sort them accordingly. Resources can be a tricky concept for economics, so use this tool to help the kids understand the difference.

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This is a short, cute, and informative cartoon put together using PowToon. This video gives a small overview of each different productive resource and a few examples of each. This would be a great hook/ way to introduce the standard to your students.