Oklahoma Social Studies E.C.1.3

Social StudiesGrades 9–12Content Standards

The Standard

Explain how productive resources (natural, human, capital) are necessary to produce goods and services.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · E.C.1

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify the natural materials, workers, and equipment used to make a good or provide a service. They explain what each resource contributes.
What Mastery Looks Like: For a bakery, a student identifies wheat as a natural resource, bakers as human resources, and ovens as capital resources. They explain how those inputs produce bread. They can also identify the resources used to provide a haircut.
Common Misconceptions: Students may call money a capital resource instead of naming the equipment it buys. They may call processed flour a natural resource or mistake the customer for the worker providing a service.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: A bakery uses wheat, bakers, and ovens to make bread. Label each resource, name the output, and explain what would happen without the ovens.

Lesson moves

Give groups clay and a plastic knife to shape a cup, then have them label the clay, their labor, and the knife.
Show a photo of a barber shop and ask: What resources does the barber use, and what changes if the scissors are missing?
Have teams sort cards marked wheat, baker, oven, water, plumber, and wrench, then match each set to a good or service.
Use a local car wash to identify the water, workers, and spray equipment used to provide its service.

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