Texas TEKS 5.9.B
The Standard
identify major industries of colonial America such as shipbuilding and growing of cash crops.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students match colonial regions with major industries, such as New England shipbuilding and Southern tobacco, rice, and indigo production. They explain how climate, waterways, soil, and forests shaped where industries developed.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a colonial map, students can place industries in the correct regions and support each choice with geographic evidence. They can distinguish crops raised for sale from crops grown mainly for household use.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every colony had the same industries. They may confuse a crop raised for sale with a food crop grown for a family. They may overlook the role of enslaved labor in producing Southern crops.
How to Assess It
- Give students a blank map of the colonial regions. Ask them to place shipbuilding and one crop industry, then explain each placement using a natural resource or geographic feature.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have groups sort cards showing timber, ports, tobacco, rice, indigo, grain, and ships onto a map of the colonial regions.
Ask students to write: Why did shipbuilding grow in New England while tobacco production grew in the South?
Play a matching game in which students pair each colonial industry with its region and supporting resources.
Compare one local industry with a colonial industry, then list how geography and available resources shape both.
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