Four Kinds of Natural Resources

Four Kinds of Natural Resources Worksheet (Grade 6 Science, TEKS 6.11A)

Help students organize everything they know about natural resources into four groups: energy, biological, water, and mineral. This one-page sheet explains whether each group is renewable, nonrenewable, or depends on how people use it, then asks students to sort eight resources such as copper wire, corn, natural gas, and well water.

What's Inside

• A Big Question box: "What kinds of natural resources do we use?"
• Four picture cards: energy, biological, water, and mineral resources
• Activity 1: Students write the group letter and circle R or N for eight resources
• Activity 2: Two circle-the-word sentences
• A visual answer key with answers marked in red

How Teachers Use It

Use it to wrap up TEKS 6.11A and lead into 6.11B. The sheet takes about 10 minutes, needs no prior knowledge, and prints clearly in black and white.

This worksheet is part of the Reading in Science series for grade 6. It supports TEKS 6.11A: identify and classify Earth's renewable and nonrenewable resources. It is one of four connected TEKS 6.11A sheets: renewable and nonrenewable resources, energy resources, why renewable does not mean unlimited, and the four kinds of natural resources. The 6.11B sheets on human impact and conservation build on them.

Why It Works

Each sheet opens with a Big Question, teaches the key terms in plain words with simple black-and-white doodles, and then asks students to use only what the page taught. Students keep returning to one question, can Earth replace it fast enough, and the visual answer key lets teachers check work fast.