Materials

• List of resources developed in the previous session

Instructional Activities

1. Display the list of natural, human, and capital resources developed in the previous session. Ask students to consider again if any item should be moved to another column.
   
   
2. Display the following list of natural, human, and capital resources and make final corrections or additions to the class list. Provide examples, pictures, photographs, or slides of resources as they are discussed:
   • Natural resources:
      - Soil, water, forests — renewable
      - Fossil fuels (oil, coal, natural gas) and metals (gold, iron, copper, bauxite) — nonrenewable
   • Human resources:
      - Level of education
      - Skilled and unskilled laborers
      - Entrepreneurial and managerial abilities
   • Capital resources:
      - Availability of money for investment
      - Level of infrastructure
      - Availability and use of tools, machines, and technologies
      - Ensure students understand the difference between renewable and nonrenewable, skilled and unskilled, and the definition of entrepreneurial and infrastructure.
   
   
3. Instruct students to use their textbooks to identify pictures of the various types of resources. Discuss the pictures they identify.
   
   
4. Assign a teacher-selected reading, worksheet, or other reinforcement activity, using available teacher resources.