Managing Earth’s Resources

Managing Earth’s Resources Worksheet (Grade 6 Science, TEKS 6.11B)

Introduce human impact with one thinking tool students will use all unit: resource, human activity, impact, solution. This one-page sheet shows the chain with groundwater and irrigation, then explains the difference between conservation, using resources carefully, and preservation, protecting something from use.

What's Inside

• A Big Question box and the unit big idea
• A four-box chain example: groundwater, irrigation, wells running low, drip irrigation
• Activity 1: Students label eight sentences R, H, I, or S
• Activity 2: Students sort four actions as conservation or preservation
• A visual answer key with answers marked in red

How Teachers Use It

Use it to open TEKS 6.11B, right after the 6.11A sheets. The sheet takes about 10 minutes and prints clearly in black and white.

This worksheet is part of the Reading in Science series for grade 6. It supports TEKS 6.11B: explain how conservation, increased efficiency, and technology can help manage air, water, soil, and energy resources. It is one of eight connected TEKS 6.11B sheets that build on the 6.11A resource sheets. Every case study uses the same four questions: resource, human activity, impact, and solution. The unit big idea is that human activities can change how quickly resources are used, replaced, or depleted, and conservation, efficiency, and technology can help manage 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. The same four-question chain repeats across the unit, so students build one way of thinking about any resource problem, and the visual answer key lets teachers check work fast.