Texas TEKS 1.6

Social Studies1st GradeEconomics

TEKS Knowledge Statement (Expectation Cluster)

Economics. The student understands how families meet basic human needs. The student is expected to:

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies

Cluster contents

1.6 is a TEKS knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify food, clothing, and shelter as needs. They explain how families get these things, then compare two families using words such as same and different.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given pictures or short stories about two families, a student can name the need being met. The student can state one similarity and one difference accurately.
Common Misconceptions: Students may confuse wants, such as toys, with needs. They may assume every family buys goods at the same stores or lives in the same kind of home.
How to Assess It: Show one family growing vegetables and another buying vegetables. Ask, “What need are both families meeting, and what is different about how they meet it?”

Lesson moves

Have students sort picture cards showing gardens, grocery stores, coats, sewing, houses, and apartments under food, clothing, or shelter.
Read two short family stories, then ask students to write one way the families are alike and one way they are different.
Play a matching game where partners connect need cards to ways families meet them, then explain each match aloud.
Trace a classroom snack from a store, garden, or kitchen, and discuss how it helps a family meet a food need.

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