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Grades 3-5
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When you go to a movie or see a theater show, have you ever wondered about the variety of jobs and skills people must have to make the performance a reality? What about the variety of material objects that are necessary for the "show to go on?"
Recently, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania opened a $300 million dollar center for the performing arts, https://www.kimmelcenter.org/. For this lesson you are going to take a virtual tour of the new center and then think about all the productive resources that must come together to create the magic you experience enjoying the performing arts.
In this lesson you will explain the three types of productive resources necessary to produce a good or a service, and identify and categorize examples of human resources, natural resources, and capital resources necessary to produce a musical theater production. You will also recognize that the production of any product or service requires a combination of the factors of production, and develop skills and appreciation in understanding of the arts, language arts, listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cooperation with others.
Place students in groups to list the human, capital, and natural resources necessary to produce each of the following:
Explore the World Wide Web to find performing arts centers in your community and/or state. Write a three paragraph summary on one of the performing arts centers that you find. In your essay please include; upcoming events, ticket prices, and identify examples of human, natural, and capital resources necessary to produce the upcoming events.
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Grades 3-5
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