Texas TEKS 6.6.A
The Standard
describe ways in which the factors of production (natural resources, labor, capital, and entrepreneurs) influence the economies of various contemporary societies
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify how resources, workers, equipment, money, and entrepreneurs shape what a society produces. They compare countries and connect these factors to jobs, trade, and economic growth.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can classify examples as natural resources, labor, capital, or entrepreneurship. They can use evidence from two country profiles to explain why their economies differ.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think capital means a capital city rather than money, tools, buildings, and equipment used for production. They may count finished goods as natural resources or view labor as only physical work. Some assume one factor alone determines an economy.
How to Assess It
- Give students short profiles of Japan and Nigeria. Ask them to identify two factors in each country and explain one resulting economic difference.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups country profile cards, then have them sort details onto resource, labor, capital, and entrepreneur mats.
Ask students to write which production factor most affects a selected country's economy, using two details as evidence.
Play a matching game where students pair country facts with the production factor each fact represents.
Analyze a local bakery by listing its ingredients, workers, equipment, funding, and owner decisions.
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Related Standards
- 6.6
The student understands the factors of production in a society's economy
- 6.18.B
explain how resources, economic factors, and political decisions affect the use of technology
- 6.6.B
identify problems that may arise when one or more of the factors of production is in relatively short supply
- 6.7.A
compare ways in which various societies organize the production and distribution of goods and services
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