Social Studies Worksheet · Grades 4–6
Productive Resources Worksheet
A free printable social studies worksheet for grades 4-6 on productive resources: natural resources (from nature), human resources (workers), and capital resources (tools and machines) used to make goods. Students classify eight examples, then answer six short questions. A complete answer key is included.
Subject
Social Studies
Grades
Grades 4–6
Skill Focus
Productive Resources, economics
Lesson Length
20 minutes
Lesson Overview
About this worksheet
To make goods and services, people use three kinds of productive resources. Natural resources come from nature (water, soil, trees); human resources are the people whose work and skills make things (a farmer, a baker); and capital resources are the tools, machines, and buildings used to produce (a tractor, an oven, a factory). This worksheet teaches students to tell the three apart.
Section A lists eight examples (a river used to water crops, a carpenter, a hammer, iron ore) and asks students to label each natural, human, or capital. The reference box defines the three types with a baker-oven-wheat example but names none of the eight Section A items.
Section B is short-answer. Students list the three types, contrast natural and capital resources, give a human-resource example, break down the resources a baker uses, and reason about a computer used at a job. Page 3 is a complete answer key. The skill is a core economics idea that builds toward how goods are produced.
How to Use This Lesson
Read the reference box aloud and sort a few classroom items into the three resource types.
Complete Section A independently – have students ask ‘from nature, a person, or a made tool?’
Work Section B item 12 together: break a bakery into its human, capital, and natural resources.
Use the answer key on page 3 for self-check or teacher review.
Pair with the Goods and Services Worksheet or the Producers and Consumers Worksheet for an economics mini-unit.
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Productive Resources Worksheet
A free printable social studies worksheet for grades 4-6 on productive resources: natural resources (from nature), human resources (workers), and capital resources (tools and machines) used to make goods. Students classify eight examples, then answer six short questions. A complete answer key is included.
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