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LESSON: APPLES
Lesson Summary
Learn all
about apples and how they are grown - from seed to final product. The
book describes many different types of apples and shows how they are
turned into apple cider and apple pie. Many interesting "apple facts"
are also provided.
Concept: Productive Resources
Definition: Productive resources are the
natural, human, and capital resources that are used to produce goods and
services.
Comprehension Questions
What
are the three basic kinds of productive resources?
Natural, Human,
and Capital
What
natural resources are necessary to produce apples?
Apple
trees, water, soil, sunshine, bees to pollinate, etc.
What is
a capital resource?
A good used to produce other goods and
services.
What
capital resources are pictured in the book?
Ladder, truck,
baskets, wooden roadside stand, wagon, cider press, pruning shears,
shovel, watering can, fertilizer, etc.
What
human resources are pictured in the book?
Workers who plant and
pick apples; truck driver; people who sell apples at roadside stands;
workers who water, prune, and fertilize the apple trees; person to operate
the apple press.
Why do
you think the workers pick the apples by hand?
Perhaps using
capital resources to pick the apples would bruise them, or perhaps there
isn't a machine that is good for picking apples off trees!
Where
does an apple farmer get the productive resources to grow
apples?
Obviously, the farmer uses his own labor and management
ability, and he may already own a farm, which may be inherited. But the
farmer must raise money - called financial capital - to purchase many
other productive resources. This money usually comes from personal savings
or from loans, which the farmer must pay back from apple sales.
Other Concepts: Producers, Capital
Resources, Human
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