Sept.10-14

Hi Class,

For the next couple of days we will be learning about Economic Resources, also known as "Factors of Production". We started talking about this last week. If you recall, there are three main factors of production :

1. Natural resources
2. Human resources
3. Capital resources

+ Intermediate goods

We will learn about how all of these resources are combined to create a finished product that we know and love...Jeans! We will be doing a research activity online to find out how entrepreneur, Levi Strauss, came up with the idea to make the popular denim that we still wear today. The activity is called  The Productive Blues. In completing this activity you will discover and then categorize all of the economic resources used to make denim. Then we will watch a video to see all of the different steps involved in the manufacturing process. You'll never look at a pair of jeans the same again!

When you are finished we will review the assignment as a class and then watch a video that illustrates the entire process of how jeans are made. The video we watched in class is below: