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How Resources Create Jobs and Trade

  • Grade 5
  • Social Studies
  • 1 min 9 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC5-SS-17

A forest's trees become logs, then lumber, then houses, and each step gives people a job: loggers, truck drivers, mill workers and builders. The video then shows how machines changed logging so fewer loggers are needed but new jobs appear, and how selling extra lumber to other places for money is trade.

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The question this lesson answers

How can a forest create jobs and trade?

Trees are a natural resource, something useful we get from nature.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How can a forest create jobs and trade?

Trees are a natural resource, something useful we get from nature.

First, loggers cut down the trees and cut them into logs.

Truck drivers carry the logs to a sawmill.

At the sawmill, workers saw the logs into boards called lumber.

Builders use the lumber to build houses.

Every step, from tree to house, gives people jobs.

Long ago, many loggers cut down trees by hand, with axes.

Today, big machines cut down trees much faster.

So fewer loggers are needed, but there are new jobs, like fixing the machines.

Lumber that is not needed nearby is sold to other places.

Those places pay money for the lumber.

This selling and buying between places is called trade.

Natural resources like forests create jobs and trade.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 5

Social Studies, Government and land: resources and economic development in different regions of CanadaBC5-SS-17

Previous: Canada's Natural Resources: What Is Found Where

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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