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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
(From KidsEcon Posters©: www.kidseconposters.com)
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