SuitabookCanada's natural resources
Carrie Gleason
- Reading
- Browse the contents and photographs first, then pause over unfamiliar glossary terms. Use the index to revisit one environment or resource, and discuss how the book’s examples connect to ordinary objects.
- Themes
- Resources and everyday life: The book explains that Canadian environments supply resources used directly or transformed into energy and materials for products such as cars, phones, computers, clothes and books. Its main treatment is informational, showing connections between natural environments, resource extraction or use, and familiar goods. The book’s examples may help readers notice resource dependence in daily life.
- Responsible use and stewardship: The book says readers should value Canada’s natural resources and use them responsibly. Responsible use is presented as a guiding value alongside the factual overview. The specific standards, choices or disagreements involved are not established.
- Canada’s diverse environments: The book surveys natural resources across oceans, rivers and lakes, forests, mountains, fertile soils and grasslands. The broad geographical angle presents Canada as environmentally diverse and connects different settings with the resources they provide.
- Worth knowing
- Pay attention to how the book balances the usefulness of natural resources with its call for responsible use. It may present stewardship as an important value, but its treatment of costs, competing interests or particular solutions is unclear.