diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 187922d7df..5af80680b2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+- Change tracing to use `Resource.to_json()`
+  ([#2784](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2784))
 - Fix get_log_emitter instrumenting_module_version args typo
   ([#2830](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2830))
 - Fix OTLP gRPC exporter warning message
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/__init__.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/__init__.py
index 7dc65600f4..6d30e94ed5 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/__init__.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/__init__.py
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ def to_json(self, indent=4):
         f_span["attributes"] = self._format_attributes(self._attributes)
         f_span["events"] = self._format_events(self._events)
         f_span["links"] = self._format_links(self._links)
-        f_span["resource"] = self._format_attributes(self._resource.attributes)
+        f_span["resource"] = json.loads(self.resource.to_json())
 
         return json.dumps(f_span, indent=indent)
 
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/trace/test_trace.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/trace/test_trace.py
index 24d7b6fa3d..a6683ebd03 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/trace/test_trace.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/trace/test_trace.py
@@ -1354,12 +1354,15 @@ def test_to_json(self):
     "attributes": {},
     "events": [],
     "links": [],
-    "resource": {}
+    "resource": {
+        "attributes": {},
+        "schema_url": ""
+    }
 }""",
         )
         self.assertEqual(
             span.to_json(indent=None),
-            '{"name": "span-name", "context": {"trace_id": "0x000000000000000000000000deadbeef", "span_id": "0x00000000deadbef0", "trace_state": "[]"}, "kind": "SpanKind.INTERNAL", "parent_id": "0x00000000deadbef0", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "status": {"status_code": "UNSET"}, "attributes": {}, "events": [], "links": [], "resource": {}}',
+            '{"name": "span-name", "context": {"trace_id": "0x000000000000000000000000deadbeef", "span_id": "0x00000000deadbef0", "trace_state": "[]"}, "kind": "SpanKind.INTERNAL", "parent_id": "0x00000000deadbef0", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "status": {"status_code": "UNSET"}, "attributes": {}, "events": [], "links": [], "resource": {"attributes": {}, "schema_url": ""}}',
         )
 
     def test_attributes_to_json(self):
@@ -1377,7 +1380,7 @@ def test_attributes_to_json(self):
             span.to_json(indent=None),
             '{"name": "span-name", "context": {"trace_id": "0x000000000000000000000000deadbeef", "span_id": "0x00000000deadbef0", "trace_state": "[]"}, "kind": "SpanKind.INTERNAL", "parent_id": null, "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "status": {"status_code": "UNSET"}, "attributes": {"key": "value"}, "events": [{"name": "event", "timestamp": "'
             + date_str
-            + '", "attributes": {"key2": "value2"}}], "links": [], "resource": {}}',
+            + '", "attributes": {"key2": "value2"}}], "links": [], "resource": {"attributes": {}, "schema_url": ""}}',
         )