Natural Resources Lesson Plan 4th Grade. Fourth grade science teacher alicia barrows provides a real life experience by having students simulate an oil spill. Read a chart to determine how long cer tain mineral resources are likely to last.
Explain that these are the three main types of natural resources. She begins the lesson with a children s book called prince william and follows with another book about cleaning up oil spills. Sugaring maple tree sap natural resources maple syrup.
Rubrics and national education standards are also included.
Student sheets include booklets that students complete and assemble about natural environment seeds on our earth and plants. A powerpoint presentation and other resources on this topic can be purchased separately. Students identify the resources in historic photographs as natural unnatural renewable or non renewable. Doc 32 kb in this lesson plan students study a variety of nature s raw materials resources nearby far removed selected technology machines tools processes and a variety of consumer goods.
