Teach your class some fairly complex terms—factors of production, human resources, capital resources, natural resources, and intermediate goods—with a storybook (Messy Bessey's Holidays), plenty of visuals and handouts, and related questions and activities. 

Concepts

factors of production, natural resources, human resources, capital resources, story mapping, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Use this during a unit that focuses on resources
• Invite pupils to come up with their own stories that involve resources; they can draw a picture and label the items accordingly

Classroom Considerations

• You will need to either purchase or borrow a copy of Messy Bessey's Holidays by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
• In the included materials, you'll find two presentations for interactive whiteboards; these are not essential to the lesson if you don't have access to an interactive whiteboard

Pros

• Comes with activities, printables, a worksheet, an assessment, and an answer key for the assessment
• Answers to the discussion and reading questions are provided alongside the questions
• While the terms are complex for such young pupils, the lesson does include scaffolding and reinforcement to support learners
• Cross-curricular lesson combines language arts and social studies

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.K.1 RL.K.2 RL.K.3 RL.K.6 RL.K.7 RL.1.1 RL.1.2 RL.1.3 RL.1.4 RL.1.7 RL.2.1 RL.2.3 RL.2.5 RL.2.7 W.1.3 W.2.3