Natural resources worksheets for Grade 6 Science focus on how people use Earth’s resources and why responsible resource use matters. Students work with renewable and nonrenewable resources while building vocabulary, classification skills, comparison skills, and conservation reasoning.

What Students Practice

• Classify resources as renewable or nonrenewable.
• Identify common natural resources such as sunlight, trees, coal, natural gas, wind, fresh water, copper, and soil.
• Compare renewable and nonrenewable resources and explain why some resources can become limited.
• Distinguish conservation from general resource use.
• Connect human actions with effects on natural resources and the environment.

Student Tasks

The resource uses a practical mix of vocabulary matching, classification tables, word-bank work, cause-and-effect reasoning, scenario-based questions, comparison prompts, conservation choices, and short written responses. Students move from identifying and sorting resources toward explaining why resources may become limited and considering more responsible ways to use them.

Classroom Use

Use the worksheet for independent practice, partner work, lesson reinforcement, homework, early-finisher work, or review. The progression from straightforward resource classification to conservation and resource-availability reasoning gives students opportunities to build confidence before tackling more complex environmental decisions.

Why It Works

Rather than treating natural resources as a vocabulary-only topic, the activities connect resource types to everyday human use and availability. Students repeatedly apply the distinction between renewable and nonrenewable resources, then use that knowledge to reason about conservation and responsible resource use. The clear worksheet format also makes student responses easy to follow and review.

Included

• ✔️ Student worksheet