Texas TEKS 4.9.B
The Standard
explain the economic activities early settlers to Texas used to meet their needs and wants.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect farming, ranching, hunting, crafting, and trading to the goods settlers needed or wanted. They explain how Texas land and resources shaped those choices.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students name an economic activity and describe what it produced or provided. They can link that product to a specific need or want using clear evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think settlers bought everything with money or produced everything themselves. They may also confuse a resource, such as fertile soil, with an activity, such as farming.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Choose farming, ranching, hunting, crafting, or trading. Explain how it helped Texas settlers meet one need and one want.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs resource, tool, and product cards to build chains such as grass, cattle, beef, then label each product a need or want.
Ask students to write: Which economic activity would your settler family depend on most, and what Texas resource would make it possible?
Play Settler Marketplace with product cards, giving students different supplies and requiring them to barter for two missing household goods.
Use a grocery receipt to trace three modern purchases to farming, ranching, or manufacturing, then compare them with settler production.
Keep exploring
Related Standards
- 4.10.C
describe the development of the free enterprise system in Texas such as the growth of cash crops by early colonists and the railroad boom.
- 4.9
Economics. The student understands the basic economic activities of early societies in Texas. The student is expected to:
- 4.11.D
explain how developments in transportation and communication have influenced economic activities in Texas.
- 4.9.A
explain the economic activities various early American Indian groups in Texas used to meet their needs and wants such as farming, trading, and hunting; and
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