The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
by Eugene Trivizas and Helen Oxenbury
Margaret K. McElderry Books
32 pages
ISBN 0-689-50569-8

Summary: The three little wolves build several houses out of different materials, but the big bad pig uses different tools to destroy each one. Finally, the house they build out of flowers appeals to the pig, and they all live happily ever after.


Concept: Capital Resources

Definition: Capital resources are goods produced and used to make other goods or services.

Comprehension Questions:

Identify the capital resources used to build each house. (answers may vary: brick house - bricks, wheelbarrow, shovel, pail; concrete house - concrete mixer, buckets, ladder, pulley, shovels; armored house - barbed wire, iron bars, armor plates, metal padlocks, plexiglas, reinforced steel chains; flower house - flowers, wheelbarrow, ladder)

Explain how the tools and machinery improved the productivity. (The tools and machinery enabled the wolves to build stronger houses faster.)

Identify other productive resources used to build each house. (human resources for all of the houses- really "wolf" resources; natural resources - flowers for the house built of flowers)

What capital resources did the pig use to destroy each house? (brick house - sledgehammer; concrete house - pneumatic drill; armored house - dynamite)

Other Concepts: Natural Resources



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