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Teacher Packet #2 - Everything We Have Comes
From Natural Resources
"Your materials are excellent. They are teacher friendly and students become motivated by using them. Thanks."
Vernon Garbe - Marshall, Minnesota - Science - 5th grade

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Everything We Have and Everything We Use Comes from Our Natural Resources
(pdf, 1.3Mb) 26 pages
in Adobe Acrobat Format (.PDF)

Teacher Packet #2
is no longer available in printed form.
It is still available for free download.

26 pages to help explain
"Where Do Things Come From?"
"Is It Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?"
"How Much Does It Cost To Light Your Classroom?"
"Natural Resources and your Christmas Tree"
"Make Your Own Paper Model of a Volcano", with activity pages and maps.
Plus seven pages on plants and what they need to grow.

Show Me A Sample...

for Primary Grades (pdf)
("Is It Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?" )
for Elementary Grades (pdf)
("How Much Does It Cost To Light Your Classroom?" )

Poster Packet 2 is great to help you teach these lessons.
(about $2 each poster)

Rock Odyssey

In our opinion, this is the greatest rocks & minerals video available for grades 2 to 4 or 5. An excellent presentation of the three types of rocks. This is the video your students will ask to see again at the end of the school year.

Click on Poster image below to see a larger graphic of the poster.	Recommended posters that go with Teacher Packet #2 See All Posters
	Switched On Mining (23 X 34) A youthful and entertaining description of the minerals and metals that must be mined to produce common, every day products that we all have and use.
	Mining At Play (23 X 34) A youthful and entertaining description of the minerals and metals that must be mined to produce common, every day products that we all have and use.
	Everything We Use Comes From Our Natural Resources (16 x 23) Every day, minerals are at work in products we all use. Minerals are in paper and pencils, in toothpaste and baby powder, in televisions and airplanes. A great wall poster to emphasize that everything comes from our natural resources.
	Rock Odyssey (16 x 23) Helps students learn about the three major types of rocks (sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic) and how rocks are formed. More about Rock Odyssey

5 Different Teacher Helper Packets

A Study of the Earth

Everything We Have Comes from Natural Resources

Everyday Uses of Minerals

Creating A Universe

Natural Resources We Use

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