Texas TEKS 6.6

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

• 6.6.A

  describe ways in which the factors of production (natural resources, labor, capital, and entrepreneurs) influence the economies of various contemporary societie...

• 6.6.B

  identify problems that may arise when one or more of the factors of production is in relatively short supply

• 6.6.C

  explain the impact of the distribution of resources on international trade and economic interdependence among and within societies

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how raw materials, workers, tools, facilities, and business organizers shape what societies produce. They predict problems caused by shortages. They connect uneven resource distribution to trade and economic dependence.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can analyze a country profile and identify how each production factor supports or limits its economy. They can explain why the country imports certain goods and exports others, using evidence.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students often think capital means only money rather than tools, machines, and buildings. They may overlook trained workers and entrepreneurs as production factors. They may also assume countries trade only because they lack resources.

04

How to Assess It

Give students two brief country profiles. Ask them to identify one production advantage, predict one shortage problem, and explain one likely trade relationship.

1. 01

   Give groups country cards and production tokens, then have them build a product and record which missing factor limits output.

2. 02

   Write a claim explaining which production factor most affects a chosen country's economy, then support it with two facts.

3. 03

   Run a shortage game where teams draw event cards, adjust production totals, and negotiate trades for missing resources.

4. 04

   Examine a smartphone's materials and assembly locations, then map how several countries depend on one another to produce it.

• 6.7

  The student understands the various ways in which people organize economic systems

• 6.4

  The student understands how geographic factors influence the economic development and political relationships of societies

• 6.8

  The student understands categories of economic activities and the data used to measure a society's economic level