LITERATURE CONNECTION: NATURAL RESOURCES

HALF-PINT ECONOMICS FOR KIDS

Growing Vegetable Soup
Author: Lois Ehlert

Publisher: Harcourt

Edition: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0152325751
ISBN-13:
9780152325756
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Edition: Board Book
ISBN: 0152325751
ISBN-13:
9780152050559
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Publisher: Voyager Books

Edition: Paper
ISBN: 0152325808
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9780152325800
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Edition: Paper
ISBN-10:
9780152325817
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Published: 1987
Pages: 32
Size: 9 in x 9 in
Ages 3-7
Lexile Level: 140L

Story Synopsis: “A fresh presentation of the gardening cycle with a joyful conclusion, and the added attraction of an easy and tasty recipe for vegetable soup on the flyleaf.”--School Library Journal

LESSON: GROWING VEGETABLE SOUP

Lesson Summary

A child and her father plant, water, weed, and pick vegetables to make soup.


Concept: Natural Resources

Definition: Natural resources are gifts of nature that are used in the production of goods and services.

Comprehension Questions:

Identify the natural resources used to make the vegetable soup.
Fertile soil, water, seeds

What ingredients were produced to make the soup?
Vegetables - which came from natural resources such as soil, water, and sunshine

What capital resources were used?
Shovel, rake, hoe, trowel, watering can, spading fork, pail, soup pot, soup ladle, knife, stove.

Explain what could be done to help renew the natural resources after the vegetables are grown?
Adding compost to the soil; crop rotation; spring plow to help avoid erosion; collecting seeds from the new vegetables, etc.

Other Concepts:  Productive Resources, Human Resources, Capital Resources

  Natural Resources 

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