Texas TEKS 4.18.A
The Standard
identify famous inventors and scientists such as Gail Borden, Joseph Glidden, Michael DeBakey, and Millie Hughes-Fulford and their contributions
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students match Gail Borden, Joseph Glidden, Michael DeBakey, and Millie Hughes-Fulford with their work. They explain how each contribution changed food storage, ranching, medicine, or space research.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly identify each person from a picture, object, or short clue. They name the contribution and explain one effect it had on people’s lives.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse Borden’s condensed milk with refrigeration or credit Glidden with inventing fences. They may remember DeBakey and Hughes-Fulford only as a doctor and astronaut, without naming their scientific work.
How to Assess It
- Give students four names and four contribution cards to match. Ask them to choose one person and write how that person’s work solved a problem.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Set up a four-item museum with a milk can, wire sample, heart pump diagram, and space experiment photo for students to label.
Ask students to write which contribution had the greatest effect on daily life and support their choice with two facts.
Play a clue-card game where teams identify the person, contribution, and field to earn one point for each correct answer.
Have students find a food package, fence, medical device, or space research example and connect it to one person’s work.
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