Help students understand why resource management matters in
the real world. This TEKS-aligned resource connects science learning
to global challenges and builds strong reading-and-response skills
through discussion, writing, and quick checks.

What’s Included

• Informarion Gap Exercise

• Short answer Exercise

• Exit tickets

Concepts Covered (TEKS 6.11A)

• What resource management
  means and why it is important

• How better resource use can
  reduce global energy poverty

• Connections between resources
  and malnutrition

• How poor resource management
  contributes to air and water pollution

• Cause-and-effect thinking:
  problems → impacts → solutions

How It’s Useful

• Great for real-world science
  discussions and cross-curricular connections

• Works well for stations,
  partner talk, and science notebooks

• Exit tickets provide quick
  formative assessment data

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