Texas TEKS 7.12.C
The Standard
analyze the impact of significant industries in Texas such as aerospace, medical, and computer technologies on local, national, and international markets.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how Texas aerospace, medical, and computer technology companies affect jobs, suppliers, trade, and consumer choices. They compare effects at local, national, and international scales using evidence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain a cause-and-effect chain, such as a semiconductor plant creating local jobs and supplying firms across the country. The student supports claims with data and distinguishes benefits, costs, and geographic scale.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume an industry affects only the city where its facilities are located. They may confuse a market with a physical store or treat all economic effects as positive. They may also label statewide effects as national effects.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short profile of a Texas medical device company. Ask them to identify and explain one local, one national, and one international market effect.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Build a yarn supply-chain map connecting a Texas-made satellite, medical device, or computer chip to workers, suppliers, buyers, and export markets.
Write: Which Texas technology industry has the widest market impact, and what local, national, and international evidence supports your claim?
Sort impact cards into local, national, or international columns, then match each card to aerospace, medical technology, or computer technology.
Use a Texas company website and recent news article to trace one product from a local workplace to customers beyond the United States.
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