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Natural Resources

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Young scholars use magazines and newspapers to examine the Earth's natural resources. They identify ways that natural resources are protected, threatened, managed and mismanaged. They find the location of each story on a world map and summarize the story.

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natural resources, the earth

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3rd - 5th
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Social Studies & History
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