What are Natural Resources and where do We Find Them?
Look around you. Where did all of the stuff you use every day come from? Are you sitting on a plastic chair? Do you have rock countertops in your kitchen and bathrooms? Do you use pencils to write with? Almost everything we use comes from our natural resources, and many of those natural resources come from under the surface of the earth. Rocks, minerals, water, oil and gas are all geological resources that we depend on every day and geologists are often responsible for locating and developing plans for extracting these resources.
Resources
All ages
- CoreKids: Do rocks have holes? (poster)
- CoreKids: How can we tell whether rocks are porous and/or permeable? (poster)
- CoreKids: Example of stratigraphic column from a CO2 storage test site in Michigan (poster)
- Mineral Information Institute: Everything is made of something (booklet)
Grades 2-4
- CoreKids: Geology and Natural Resources slideshow and slideshow walkthrough
- CoreKids: Porosity and permeability activities
- CoreKids: What’s under Michigan? (worksheet)
Grades 5-8
- CoreKids: Geology and Natural Resources slideshow and slideshow walkthrough
- CoreKids: Porosity and permeability activities