Texas TEKS 7.12.A

Social Studies7th GradeEconomics

The Standard

explain the impact of national and international markets on the production of goods and services in Texas, including agriculture and oil and gas

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students trace how changes in demand, prices, trade, and competition affect what Texas producers make. They explain effects on agriculture and oil and gas using clear cause-and-effect links.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can analyze a market change and predict how a Texas producer may respond. They support the prediction with evidence about demand, prices, production costs, exports, or competition.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think international markets affect only exported goods. They may confuse selling more goods with producing more goods. They may also assume higher prices cause immediate production increases, ignoring costs, weather, and capacity.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Global oil prices rise while foreign demand for Texas cotton falls. Explain one likely production response for each industry and why.

Lesson moves

Give teams cotton, cattle, and oil scenario cards; have them move ten production tokens after each change in price, demand, or trade.
Write a response to this prompt: How could demand in another country change jobs and production in a Texas community?
Run a market game where teams act as Texas producers and adjust output after drawing demand, price, weather, and trade cards.
Compare a USDA Texas crop price chart with an EIA oil price chart, then predict which Texas producers would expand or cut output.

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