Texas TEKS K.12.B
The Standard
describe how technology helps accomplish specific tasks and meet people's needs
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify tools people use for a particular job or need. They explain how each tool makes the task easier, faster, or safer.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can match tools such as a phone, shovel, or wheelchair to their uses. The student can explain the match in a complete sentence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think technology only means computers, tablets, or robots. They may name what a tool is without explaining how it helps someone complete a task.
How to Assess It
- Show a picture of a flashlight and ask, “What need does this tool meet, and how does it help?” Have students answer orally or draw and label.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Set out a spoon, ruler, flashlight, and toy phone, then have students demonstrate a task each tool helps complete.
Ask students to draw one tool used at home and finish the sentence, “This helps my family because…”
Play a tool-and-task matching game with picture cards, then require partners to explain each match aloud.
Take a school walk to spot tools used by the custodian, nurse, teacher, and office staff, then discuss the needs they meet.
Keep exploring
Related Standards
- 2.13.B
explain how science and technology have affected the ways in which people meet basic needs.
- 7.19.A
compare types and uses of technology, past and present;
- 1.15.B
describe how technology has affected communication, transportation, and recreation; and
- 1.15.A
describe how technology has affected the ways families live;
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