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LESSON: HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE PIE AND SEE
THE WORLD
Lesson
Summary
Making an apple pie is usually easy for the
young baker except when the market is closed and no ingredients can be
bought. The reader is taken on a journey around the world to find the
finest ingredients to make a delicious apple pie.
Concept: Productive Resources
Definition: Productive resources are the
natural, human, and capital resources that are used to produce goods and
services.
Comprehension Questions
Describe the problem at the beginning
of the story.
The ingredients for the apple pie could not be bought
because the market was closed.
List
all the natural resources and ingredients that were gathered from
each country to use in making the pie.
- Italy -
semolina wheat
- France
- chicken for eggs
- Sri
Lanka - bark from the kurundu tree for cinnamon
- England - cow for milk, ocean - seawater
for salt
- Jamaica
- sugar cane for sugar
- Vermont
- apples
After
all the natural resources and ingredients were gathered, it was time
to make the pie. Identify the capital and human resources needed
to produce the pie.
Human resources - girl
Capital
resources - grinder, bowl, stove, pot, churn stove, pan
Explain
why the pie in this book probably tasted better than if the market
had been open.
The little girl gathered only the finest
ingredients for the pie.
When
you go to the store, are the goods you buy there sometimes made in other
countries?
Yes! Goods produced in many countries are found in
our stores.
Do producers in our country sell
goods to other countries?
Yes! Our goods are sold to people
all over the world.
Extra Credit: What do we call
goods that we buy from other countries?
Imports
What do we call goods that we sell
to other countries?
Exports
Other Concepts: Natural
Resources, Human
Resources, Capital Resources,
Interdependence,
Specialization,
Trade and
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