T A B L E 4 . 3
Learning Cycle
Productive Resources
Grade Level: Primary and Intermediate
NCSS Standards: Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Exploratory Introduction
Objectives
Procedures
Assessments
Students review
previous knowledge by
identifying examples of
natural, human, and
capital resources.
The teacher asks: “Do you like brownies?” The
teacher says: “Let’s make some. What do we
need to make brownies?” List items on the board.
Affirm all items are necessary to make brownies.
Record, on a checklist,
students who
participate by
offering appropriate
suggestions.
Lesson Development
Materials: A set of three pictures of natural, human, and capital resources each, for each group
Objectives
Procedures
Students define
productive resources as
the natural, human,
and capital resources
used to make a
product or perform
a service.
The teacher divides students into groups.
Each group is given a set of pictures of natural
resources. The teacher asks students to discuss
the set in their groups.
Assessments
The teacher writes Productive Resources on the
board and identifies some of the pictures in the set
as natural resources. Then the teacher writes
natural resources on the board under the heading
Productive Resources. Students are asked to
identify other pictures in the set as natural
resources and explain which characteristics in the
picture they used to make the identification.
The process is repeated with the other two sets of
pictures. The teacher has students consider the
following questions: What (natural) resources do
you see in this picture? Are these people examples
of human resources? Why? Why not?
Correct classification
of items on the list is
recorded on a checklist.
The teacher returns to the list for brownies.
Students classify each item on the list. The teacher
asks: “What can we say a productive resource is?”
Closure: Write the class definition of a productive
resource on the board. Have students decide
whether it needs revision. Have students write
the final definition they develop in notebooks.
Class states an
appropriate definition.
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