Oklahoma Social Studies 2.C.4.2
The Standard
- 2.C.4
- Understand basic economic concepts of a free market.
Explain how goods are produced by using natural resources (e.g., water, soil, wood, coal), human resources (e.g., people at work), and capital resources (e.g., machines, tools, computers, buildings).
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 2.C.4
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how people make goods using materials from nature, workers, and tools or machines. They identify each kind of resource used to make a familiar item.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student identifies wood from a tree, a carpenter, and a saw as resources used to make a chair. They explain that the carpenter uses the saw to cut the wood.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call a finished chair a natural resource because it contains wood. They may think capital means money rather than tools and machines. Some name the saw but forget the worker using it.
How to Assess It
- Show a picture of a carpenter making a wooden chair. Ask students to label the material from nature, the worker, and a tool, then explain how they work together.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a twig, a toy saw, and a carpenter picture; have them act out how a wooden chair gets made.
Ask, "Could a carpenter make a chair with wood but no tools? What would be harder?"
Deal wood, carpenter, saw, wheat, baker, and oven cards; have partners sort them into materials from nature, workers, and tools.
Hold up a wooden pencil; ask students to name a material from nature, a worker, and a machine used to make it.
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- 1.C.3.6
Identify natural resources (e.g., water, soil, vegetation, minerals) and describe how people use natural resources to meet their needs and wants.
- 1.C.4.3
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- 3.C.4.2.A
Explain how labor (human effort), land (natural resources), and capital (tools, machinery, technology) are used to produce goods and services.
- E.C.1.3
Explain how productive resources (natural, human, capital) are necessary to produce goods and services.
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