Renewable or Nonrenewable?

Renewable or Nonrenewable? Worksheet (Grade 6 Science, TEKS 6.11A)

Start your natural resources unit with one key question: can Earth replace this resource fast enough for people to keep using it? This one-page reading and activity sheet compares renewable resources, like sunlight, wind, and replanted forests, with nonrenewable resources, like coal, oil, uranium, and metals.

What's Inside

• A Big Question box: "Can Earth replace a resource fast enough for us to keep using it?"
• Two picture cards for renewable and nonrenewable resources
• Activity 1: Students write R or N for eight resources
• Activity 2: Three circle-the-word sentences
• A visual answer key with answers marked in red

How Teachers Use It

Use it on day one of a natural resources unit, as a bell ringer, or as practice for TEKS 6.11A. 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.