Describe, in order, the basic production steps that turn a raw resource into a finished good available in the community, connecting production to the local economy.
Almost everything you buy travels through a production chain: several steps that turn a raw resource into a finished product you can actually use. A classic example is wheat becoming bread: a farmer grows wheat, a mill grinds the wheat into flour, a bakery bakes the flour into bread, and finally a grocery store sells the bread to your family.
Many California regions, especially the Central Valley you learned about in week 1, grow huge amounts of the food found in grocery stores all over the country, so this production chain is very real and very local for many California families. Other products, like milk into cheese, or trees into lumber, follow a similar chain: raw resource, processing, finished product, sold to a customer.
Mastery looks like: They can describe, in correct order, the stages of a production chain from raw resource to finished product sold to a customer.
Common stumbles: Skipping steps in the chain, or putting the raw resource and the finished sale out of order.