Texas TEKS 6.11.A
The Standard
research and describe why resource management is important in reducing global energy, poverty, malnutrition, and air and water pollution, and
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students gather reliable information about how energy, food, and water are produced, shared, conserved, and reused. They explain how specific management choices can improve access to resources and reduce pollution.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can use evidence to connect a management choice with social and environmental results. They can explain a clear cause-and-effect chain and recognize that solutions must fit local needs.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think resource management only means using less, rather than changing how resources are produced, shared, reused, and protected. They may assume one technology works everywhere or confuse energy poverty with a lack of fossil fuels. They may also name related problems without explaining the links between them.
How to Assess It
- Give students a data card about clean cookstoves or drip irrigation. Ask them to explain how the practice manages a resource and trace its effects on two named problems.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Run a token simulation where teams allocate limited water, food, and fuel, then draw outcome cards showing health and pollution effects.
Using two source cards, write a claim explaining how one management choice could reduce two linked problems, then cite both cards.
Play a cause-and-effect matching game with cards for resource decisions, immediate results, and long-term effects, then defend each chain.
Compare local electricity, food waste, and water data with another region, then propose one realistic management change for each place.
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- 3.11.B
explain why the conservation of natural resources is important; and
- 4.11.B
explain the critical role of energy resources to modern life and how conservation, disposal, and recycling of natural resources impact the environment; and
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