Texas TEKS 7.19.D

Social Studies7th GradeScience, technology, and society

The Standard

evaluate the effects of scientific discoveries and technological innovations on the use of resources such as fossil fuels, water, and land

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain how discoveries and inventions changed the way Texans obtain, use, and conserve fossil fuels, water, and land. They judge benefits and costs using evidence.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can connect a specific innovation, such as irrigation pumps or hydraulic fracturing, to changes in resource use. They support a judgment with clear benefits, costs, and evidence.
Common Misconceptions: Students may assume every innovation conserves resources or always increases resource use. They may list environmental effects without explaining how the technology caused them.
How to Assess It: Give an exit ticket: “How did one Texas technology change the use of water, land, or fossil fuels? Name one benefit and one cost.”

Lesson moves

Build a model aquifer with gravel, sand, water, and straws, then compare pumping rates and discuss effects on groundwater supplies.
Write a claim answering: “Has hydraulic fracturing helped Texas more than it has harmed Texas?” Use two provided facts.
Sort cards showing dams, irrigation pumps, drilling rigs, and solar panels by resource, benefit, cost, and short-term or long-term effect.
Compare local satellite images or land-use maps from two years, then identify how technology may have changed water, energy, or land use.

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