Grade 2 | HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
WEEK 11 • PRACTICE WORKBOOK • DAYS 51–55
Read the matching lesson in the Week 11 Student Textbook first. Write each answer on the line below its question. Day 55 is answered on your own.
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Day 51: What Are Natural Resources?
Resources and products
| Natural resource | A product made from it |
|---|---|
| Trees | Paper |
| Cotton plants | T-shirt |
| Clay soil | Bricks |
| Peanuts | Peanut butter |
- What product in the table is made from clay soil?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Which natural resource is used to make paper?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Explain the difference between a natural resource and a product. Use one example from the table.
Answer: _________________________________________________
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Day 52: Alabama’s Forests
Jobs that use Alabama’s forests
| Job | What the worker does |
|---|---|
| Tree planter | Plants young pine trees |
| Logger | Cuts trees and loads the logs |
| Truck driver | Hauls logs to the mill |
| Mill worker | Saws logs into lumber or makes paper |
- Who saws logs into lumber?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- What does a truck driver do with the logs?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Explain why planting new trees is important for the workers in the table.
Answer: _________________________________________________
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Day 53: Iron, Coal and Limestone: The Story of Birmingham
Birmingham timeline
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1871 | Birmingham is founded |
| 1882 | Sloss Furnace makes its first iron |
| Today | Sloss Furnaces is a museum people can visit |
- In what year was Birmingham founded?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- How many years after Birmingham was founded did Sloss Furnace make its first iron?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Explain why having iron ore, coal and limestone close together helped Birmingham grow.
Answer: _________________________________________________
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Day 54: From Resource to Product
The path of peanut butter
| Step | Who does it |
|---|---|
| 1. Grow peanuts | Farmer |
| 2. Roast and grind peanuts | Factory worker |
| 3. Fill and label jars | Factory worker |
| 4. Sell the jars | Store worker |
- What is the first step for making peanut butter?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Who sells the jars?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Explain how one natural resource, peanuts, gives jobs to more than one kind of worker.
Answer: _________________________________________________
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Hands-on task: Trace a product back to a natural resource
- Choose three things in your home, such as a shirt, a pencil and a jar of peanut butter.
- For each one, find out what natural resource it was made from. Ask an adult or read the label.
- Draw arrows to show the steps: resource, then worker, then product.
- Circle any resource that Alabama produces, such as trees, cotton or peanuts.
- Fill in the table below.
| Product | Natural resource | Grown or found in Alabama? |
|---|---|---|
| __________ | __________ | ____ |
| __________ | __________ | ____ |
| __________ | __________ | ____ |
One product made from an Alabama resource is:
_________________________________________________
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Day 55: Independent Check: Alabama’s Natural Resources
Alabama resources
| Resource | One use |
|---|---|
| Pine trees | Lumber for houses |
| Coal | Making iron and steel |
| Cotton | Cloth for clothes |
Answer on your own. An adult may read the questions aloud but should not give the answers.
- What is one use of Alabama’s coal?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Which resource in the table is dug from the ground and cannot be planted again?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Choose one resource from the table. Explain how it helps people in Alabama earn money.
Answer: _________________________________________________
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