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Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Human Resources and Capital Resources: It's a Match!
Students will define and identify human resources and capital resources workers use in their jobs.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Goods and Services [Pdf]
A unit that teaches the difference between goods and services, the difference between producers and consumers, the difference between human, natural, and capital resources, and the difference between bartering/trading and buying/selling....
The World Bank
World Bank: Data Catalog
This resource provides statistical data on numerous categories for nearly every country in the world. A great tool for a comparative analysis. Human, natural, and capital resources are all included.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Civil War: A War of Resources
The North won the Civil War in large part due to its superior resources. In this lesson middle schoolers will learn the difference between capital resources, human capital, and natural resources. They will investigate and compare the...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Henry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 2)
Henry Ford's use of mass production strategies to manufacture the Model T revolutionized industrial manufacturing. This 3-part learning unit provides learners with the story of Henry Ford and the Model T from an economics perspective....
University of Nebraska Omaha
An Economics and Literature Lesson: The Goat in the Rug
This is a lesson plan geared toward first through third grades, cross-curricular, dealing with economics and literature. "Learn about economics: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods; and Language Arts:...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Shoemaker's Tools
This lesson incorporates the folk tale of The Shoemaker and the Elves to teach your students about the concept of capital resources. Lesson contains a link to an animated retelling of this beloved classic. Use it to have students...
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Scarcity Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Scarcity and includes a quiz. The total resources of society, including natural resources, human resources, capital goods and entrepreneurship, are limited, causing scarcity to exist. [1:13]
Other
Technology Resources: Resources Are Things We Need to Get a Job Done [Pdf]
Resources are things we need to get a job done. Every technological system makes use of seven types of resources: people, information, materials, tools and machines, energy, capital, and time.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Tortilla Factory [Pdf]
This lesson plan accompanies a story by Gary Paulsen called Tortilla Factory, and teaches students to identify the different types of resources (human, capital, natural, etc.) that go into creating corn tortillas and other products.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 6: Economic Growth: Key Terms
This is a list of key terms and definitions for terms used in Chapter 6: Economic Growth of the online Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics text.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Economics of the Family Farm
Learn about the status of farming as a career, investigate the management of a family farm, and examine one recent farm crisis in this lesson.