Texas TEKS 1.8.C
The Standard
identify examples of choices families make when buying goods and services.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how families decide what to purchase when money is limited. They choose between possible purchases and give a simple reason for each choice.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can select one item or service from two options and explain the family’s decision. The explanation may mention cost, needs, wants, or preferences.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think families can buy everything they want. They may confuse goods, such as food, with services, such as a haircut.
How to Assess It
- Give students this exit ticket: “A family has $10. Would you buy groceries or a movie ticket? Circle one and explain why.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs play money and picture cards, then have them choose three family purchases that fit within a set budget.
Ask, “Why might one family choose a bus ride while another family chooses to drive?” and record two possible reasons.
Play Purchase Corners by labeling room corners food, clothing, fun, and services, then reading family shopping scenarios aloud.
Examine a grocery store ad and have students circle one item a family might need and one item they might want.
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Related Standards
- 4.10.B
identify examples of the benefits of the free enterprise system such as choice and opportunity; and
- 1.7.A
identify examples of goods and services in the home, school, and community;
- 1.6.B
describe similarities and differences in ways families meet basic human needs.
- 2.6.B
explain the choices people can make about earning, spending, and saving money.
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