diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 339d4b86741..43efa6ad00a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Changed
 - Rename `IdsGenerator` to `IdGenerator`
   ([#1651])(https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/1651)
+- Make TracerProvider's resource attribute private
+  ([#1652])(https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/1652)
 - Rename Resource's `create_empty` to `get_empty`
   ([#1653])(https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/1653)
 
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/__init__.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/__init__.py
index ddfc2e2c934..9599fbd976d 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/__init__.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/__init__.py
@@ -1009,12 +1009,16 @@ def __init__(
             self.id_generator = RandomIdGenerator()
         else:
             self.id_generator = id_generator
-        self.resource = resource
+        self._resource = resource
         self.sampler = sampler
         self._atexit_handler = None
         if shutdown_on_exit:
             self._atexit_handler = atexit.register(self.shutdown)
 
+    @property
+    def resource(self) -> Resource:
+        return self._resource
+
     def get_tracer(
         self,
         instrumenting_module_name: str,