Value+and+Natural+Resources


 * In your interactive notebook: Answer each of these questions in order to prepare for a discussion**


 * 1) What does it mean when something is valuable?
 * 2) Is value created or innate?
 * 3) What are some examples of things that are valuable to you, your community, your country? What gives them value? Do others value them? Do others value them for the same reasons? Who benefits from their value?
 * 4) Have you, your community, or your country been involved in a conflict that involved natural resources? Who were the parties involved? What were the issues in dispute? Did the conflict escalate to violence? How was the conflict resolved? If the conflict is ongoing, what are ways that it could be managed or resolved?