Texas TEKS 6.5

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

• 6.5.A

  describe ways people have been impacted by physical processes such as earthquakes and climate

• 6.5.B

  identify and analyze ways people have adapted to the physical environment in various places and regions

• 6.5.C

  identify and analyze ways people have modified the physical environment such as mining, irrigation, and transportation infrastructure

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how earthquakes, climate, and other physical processes affect where and how people live. They compare how people adapt to environments and how projects such as mines, irrigation systems, and roads change them.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can label an example as an environmental impact, a human adaptation, or a human modification. They can use evidence to explain benefits, costs, and effects on people and land.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may confuse adapting to an environment with changing it. They may also name only the benefits of irrigation, mining, or roads while ignoring risks and environmental costs.

04

How to Assess It

Show a picture of farms using desert irrigation. Ask students to identify the physical challenge, explain the human response, and name one benefit and one cost.

1. 01

   Give groups clay, water, and craft sticks to model a river valley, then build and test an irrigation system.

2. 02

   Ask students to write which response to drought works best: migration, water limits, or irrigation, using two pieces of evidence.

3. 03

   Play an impact, adaptation, or modification card sort using examples such as earthquakes, raised houses, mines, tunnels, and canals.

4. 04

   Map how a nearby highway, dam, mine, or drainage system changed travel, jobs, water, or habitats in the community.

• 7.9

  Geography. The student understands the effects of the interaction between humans and the environment in Texas. The student is expected to:

• 3.3

  Geography. The student understands how humans adapt to and/or modify the physical environment. The student is expected to:

• 1.5

  Geography. The student understands physical and human characteristics of place to better understand their community and the world around them. The student is ex...

• 2.5

  Geography. The student understands how humans use and modify the physical environment. The student is expected to: