Texas TEKS 3.13.A
The Standard
identify individuals who have discovered scientific breakthroughs or created or invented new technology such as Jonas Salk, Cyrus McCormick, Bill Gates, Louis Pasteur, and others
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students match scientists and inventors to their discoveries, inventions, or improvements. They explain how each contribution changed work, health, communication, or daily life.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify people such as Jonas Salk, Cyrus McCormick, Bill Gates, and Louis Pasteur from clues about their work. The student can state each contribution and describe one effect it had.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse the person who created something with someone who later improved or popularized it. They may also mix up Salk and Pasteur, or assume Gates invented the computer.
How to Assess It
- Give students four names and four contribution cards to match. Ask them to choose one person and write, "This contribution changed life by..."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs name, picture, contribution, and impact cards to sort into four matching sets.
Ask students to write which contribution helped people most, then support their choice with one specific effect.
Play a clue game where students identify a person after hearing three facts about the person's work.
Have students inspect a vaccine record, food label, computer, or farm tool image and connect it to one featured person.
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