Texas TEKS 3.13
TEKS Knowledge Statement (Expectation Cluster)
Science, technology, and society. The student understands how individuals have created or invented new technology and affected life in various communities, past and present. The student is expected to:
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Cluster contents
Student Expectations in This Statement
3.13 is a TEKS knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.
- 3.13.A
identify individuals who have discovered scientific breakthroughs or created or invented new technology such as Jonas Salk, Cyrus McCormick, Bill Gates, Louis P...
- 3.13.B
describe the impact of scientific breakthroughs and new technology in computers, pasteurization, and medical vaccines on various communities.
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect people such as Jonas Salk, Cyrus McCormick, Bill Gates, and Louis Pasteur to their work. They explain how each breakthrough or technology changed daily life in different communities.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly match a person with a discovery, invention, or innovation. They describe at least one clear effect, such as vaccines preventing disease or farm machines helping farmers harvest faster.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think one person invented an entire field, such as Bill Gates inventing computers. They may also confuse vaccines with medicines that cure illness, or pasteurization with refrigeration.
How to Assess It
- Give students one exit ticket: Choose Salk, McCormick, Gates, or Pasteur, then write what the person did and one effect on a community.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have pairs sort person, innovation, and community-impact cards into matching sets, then check each set with a short reference sheet.
Ask students to write: Which innovation changed community life most, and what evidence supports your choice?
Play a clue game where students identify the person or innovation, then earn a point by naming one accurate community impact.
Examine labels on milk, vaccine records, farm equipment photos, and computer software to connect past innovations with life today.
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