Our Natural Resources Worksheet

Help students connect natural-resource vocabulary with its meaning, then consider how climate change could affect those resources. Includes a matching task and space for a written response.
Grades
Grades 3–5
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Updated Aug 08, 2021

Subject
Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Topic
Natural resources, Renewable resources
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This Using Our Natural Resources Worksheet is a great way for students to learn about conservation. They will match vocab about resources and write about them in order to learn more about this important topic.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Connect natural-resource terms with their meanings

  • Differentiate among types of natural resources

  • Explain a possible climate-related impact on resources

Teaching tips

  • Complete the vocabulary matching before beginning the broader reflection.

  • Encourage learners to name a specific resource and a plausible change when explaining an impact.

Skills covered

  • Resource vocabulary — categories are connected with definitions.

  • Environmental application — climate change is considered in relation to resources.

  • Written reasoning — learners develop an open explanatory response.

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What follows the matching task?

An open writing prompt asks students to consider how climate change may affect natural resources.

Is the activity mainly calculation or vocabulary work?

It focuses on resource vocabulary and written explanation.

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Core concepts

  • Natural resources

  • Climate change impacts

  • Environmental vocabulary

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