| Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) |
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| Social Studies |
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Grade 6
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| History |
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| SOC-6-2. The student understands the contributions of individuals and groups from various cultures to selected historical and contemporary societies. |
 | SOC-6-2.A. Explain the significance of individuals or groups from selected societies, past and present. |
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| Geography |
| SOC-6-3. The student uses maps, globes, graphs, charts, models, and databases to answer geographic questions. |
| SOC-6-3.B. Pose and answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns for selected world regions and countries shown on maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases. |
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| SOC-6-4. The student understands the characteristics and relative locations of major historical and contemporary societies. |
| SOC-6-4.A. Locate major historical and contemporary societies on maps and globes. |
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| SOC-6-4.C. Explain ways in which human migration influences the character of places and regions. |
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| SOC-6-4.D. Identify and explain the geographic factors responsible for the location of economic activities in places and regions. |
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| Culture |
| SOC-6-17. The student understands relationships that exist among world cultures. |
| SOC-6-17.C. Analyze how culture traits spread. |
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| SOC-6-17.D. Explain why cultures borrow from each other. |
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| SOC-6-17.E. Evaluate how cultural borrowing affects world cultures. |
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| Social studies skills |
| SOC-6-21. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of sources including electronic technology. |
| SOC-6-21.C. Organize and interpret information from outlines, reports, databases, and visuals including graphs, charts, timelines, and maps. |
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| SOC-6-22. The student communicates in written, oral, and visual forms. |
| SOC-6-22.D. Create written and visual material such as journal entries, reports, graphic organizers, outlines, and bibliographies. |
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| Technology Applications
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Grades 6-8
Information Acquisition |
| TECH-(6-8).4. The student uses a variety of strategies to acquire information from electronic resources, with appropriate supervision. |
| TECH-(6-8).4.A. use strategies to locate and acquire desired information on LANs and WANs, including the Internet, intranet, and collaborative software. |
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| TECH-(6-8).4.B. apply appropriate electronic search strategies in the acquisition of information including keyword and Boolean search strategies. |
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