Texas TEKS 6.4

6.4 is a TEKS knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.

• 6.4.A

  explain the geographic factors responsible for the location of economic activities in places and regions

• 6.4.B

  identify geographic factors such as location, physical features, transportation corridors and barriers, and distribution of natural resources that influence a s...

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What Students Need to Do

Students use maps and geographic evidence to explain why farming, mining, manufacturing, or trade develops in certain places. They also explain how landforms, routes, resources, and location shape cooperation or conflict between societies.

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What Mastery Looks Like

A student can connect a specific geographic feature to an economic activity and explain the link. The student can also use map evidence to predict how geography may affect trade, alliances, borders, or disputes.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may name a feature, such as a river or mountain, without explaining its effect. They may assume resources always create wealth or that barriers only prevent contact, ignoring conflict, control, and new transportation routes.

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How to Assess It

Give students a map showing mountains, a river, roads, ports, and oil fields. Ask them to choose one economic activity and one political relationship, then explain each choice with map evidence.

1. 01

   Give pairs layered maps of rivers, mountains, roads, ports, and resources, then have them place farm, mine, factory, and trade cards.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: How could control of a river help one country economically while creating tension with a neighboring country?

3. 03

   Play a map evidence game where teams match economic activity cards and political scenario cards to the geographic feature that best explains each.

4. 04

   Have students investigate why a local warehouse, factory, farm, or shopping center is located near particular roads, land, water, or resources.

• 6.5

  The student understands the impact of interactions between people and the physical environment on the development and conditions of places and regions

• 6.6

  The student understands the factors of production in a society's economy

• 6.3

  The student understands the factors that influence the locations and characteristics of locations of various contemporary societies on maps and/or globes