What are physical resources?

Physical resources are things we can touch and use to help us do stuff every day.

Imagine you're building a sandcastle at the beach. The sand, the water, and even your hands are all physical resources, they’re real things that help you make something cool.

What Are Physical Resources?

  • Physical resources are real, tangible things around us.
  • You can see them, touch them, and often use them to create or build other things.
  • Examples include wood, stone, water, air, and even your favorite toy.

How We Use Them

Think of a treehouse. The trees give you wood, which you use to make the frame. You might use rope to tie it together, and nails to hold it in place. All these things, wood, rope, nails, are physical resources.

Just like how you need blocks to build a tower, we need physical resources to make our world work!

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Examples

  1. A child uses wood from a tree to build a toy house.
  2. A farmer plants seeds in the soil to grow food.
  3. A factory uses coal to power machines.

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