Texas TEKS 7.7.B
The Standard
define and trace the impact of "boom-and-bust" cycles of leading Texas industries throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries such as farming, oil and gas production, cotton, ranching, real estate, banking, and computer technology
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain what makes an industry grow quickly and what causes it to contract. They track effects on Texas jobs, migration, communities, banks, and government revenue. They also compare cycles across different industries and time periods.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students place major expansions and downturns in order using evidence such as prices, production, employment, or bank failures. They can explain how falling oil prices in the 1980s hurt Texas real estate and banking.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often treat a boom as permanent growth and a bust as an industry's complete disappearance. They may mix up cause and effect, assume every Texan was affected equally, or discuss industries as if they operated separately.
How to Assess It
- Give students these facts: oil prices rose in 1979, drilling jobs increased, oil prices fell in 1986, and bank failures increased. Ask them to label the boom and bust, then explain one cause and two effects.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have pairs arrange dated industry, price, job, migration, and banking cards into a cause and effect timeline for the 1970s and 1980s oil cycle.
Ask students to write: Who gains during an oil boom, who faces risk, and what changes when prices collapse?
Play cycle match, where teams pair cause cards with boom or bust evidence and earn a point for each accurate explanation.
Students graph Texas home prices or technology employment from a public data table, then mark growth, decline, and effects on local families.
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