Texas State Standards for Social Studies: Grade 6

TX.113.22 (6.1) History: The student understands that historical events influence contemporary events.

6.1. (A) Describe characteristics of selected contemporary societies such as Bosnia and Northern Ireland that resulted from historical events or factors such as invasion, conquests, colonization, immigration, and trade. 3
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6.1. (B) Analyze the historical background of selected contemporary societies to evaluate relationships between past conflicts and current conditions. 3
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TX.113.22 (6.2) History: The student understands the contributions of individuals and groups from various cultures to selected historical and contemporary societies.

6.2. (A) Explain the significance of individuals or groups from selected societies, past and present. 3
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6.2. (B) Describe the influence of individual and group achievement on selected historical or contemporary societies. 13
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TX.113.22 (6.3) Geography: The student uses maps, globes, graphs, charts, models, and databases to answer geographic questions.

6.3. (A) Create thematic maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases depicting various aspects of world regions and countries such as population, disease, and economic activities. 22
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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. 28
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6.3. (C) Compare selected world regions and countries using data from maps, graphs, charts, databases, and models. 29
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TX.113.22 (6.4) Geography: The student understands the characteristics and relative locations of major historical and contemporary societies.

6.4. (A) Locate major historical and contemporary societies on maps and globes. 42
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6.4. (B) Identify and explain the geographic factors responsible for patterns of population in places and regions. 21
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6.4. (C) Explain ways in which human migration influences the character of places and regions. 6
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6.4. (D) Identify and explain the geographic factors responsible for the location of economic activities in places and regions. 13
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TX.113.22 (6.5) Geography: The student understands how geographic factors influence the economic development, political relationships, and policies of societies.

6.5. (A) Explain factors such as location, physical features, transportation corridors and barriers, and distribution of natural resources that influence the economic development and foreign policies of societies. 59
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6.5. (B) Identify geographic factors that influence a society's ability to control territory and that shape the domestic and foreign policies of the society. 27
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TX.113.22 (6.6) Geography: The student understands the impact of physical processes on patterns in the environment.

6.6. (A) Describe and explain how physical processes such as erosion, ocean circulation, and earthquakes have resulted in physical patterns on Earth's surface. 21
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6.6. (B) Describe and explain the physical processes that produce renewable and nonrenewable natural resources such as fossil fuels, fertile soils, and timber. 6
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6.6. (C) Analyze the effects of physical processes and the physical environment on humans. 64
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TX.113.22 (6.7) Geography: The student understands the impact of interactions between people and the physical environment on the development of places and regions.

6.7. (A) Identify and analyze ways people have adapted to the physical environment in selected places and regions. 22
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6.7. (B) Identify and analyze ways people have modified the physical environment. 44
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6.7. (C) Describe ways in which technology influences human capacity to modify the physical environment. 9
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TX.113.22 (6.8) Economics: The student understands the various ways in which people organize economic systems.

6.8. (A) Compare ways in which various societies organize the production and distribution of goods and services. 4
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6.8. (B) Identify and differentiate among traditional, market, and command economies in selected contemporary societies, including the benefits of the U.S. free enterprise system. 4
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6.8. (C) Explain the impact of scarcity on international trade and economic interdependence among societies. 3
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TX.113.22 (6.9) Economics: The student understands the role factors of production play in a society's economy.

6.9. (A) Describe ways in which factors of production (natural resources, labor, capital, and entrepreneurs) influence the economies of selected contemporary societies. 45
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6.9. (B) Identify problems and issues that may arise when one or more of the factors of production is in relatively short supply. 3
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TX.113.22 (6.10) Economics: The student understands categories of economic activities and the means used to measure a society's economic level.

6.10. (A) Define and give examples of primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary industries. 27
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6.10. (B) Describe and measure levels of economic development using various indicators such as individual purchasing power, life expectancy, and literacy. 2
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TX.113.22 (6.11) Government: The student understands the concepts of limited governments, such as constitutional and democratic governments, and unlimited governments, such as totalitarian and nondemocratic governments.

6.11. (A) Describe characteristics of limited and unlimited governments. 9
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6.11. (B) Identify examples of limited and unlimited governments. 31
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6.11. (C) Identify reasons for limiting the power of government. 23
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6.11. (D) Compare limited and unlimited governments. 9
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TX.113.22 (6.12) Government: The student understands alternative ways of organizing governments.

6.12. (A) Identify alternative ways of organizing governments such as rule by one, few, or many. 9
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6.12. (B) Identify examples of governments with rule by one, few, or many. 31
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6.12. (C) Identify historical origins of democratic forms of government. 9
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6.12. (D) Compare how governments function in selected world societies such as China, Germany, India, and Russia. 8
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TX.113.22 (6.13) Citizenship: The student understands that the nature of citizenship varies among societies.

6.13. (A) Describe roles and responsibilities of citizens in selected contemporary societies including the United States. 15
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6.13. (B) Explain how opportunities for citizens to participate in and influence the political process vary among selected contemporary societies. 17
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6.13. (C) Compare the role of citizens in the United States with the role of citizens from selected democratic and nondemocratic contemporary societies. 11
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TX.113.22 (6.14) Citizenship: The student understands the relationship among individual rights, responsibilities, and freedoms in democratic societies.

6.14. (A) Identify and explain the importance of voluntary civic participation in democratic societies. 4
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6.14. (B) Explain relationships among rights and responsibilities in democratic societies. 6
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TX.113.22 (6.15) Culture: The student understands the similarities and differences within and among cultures in different societies.

6.15. (A) Define the concepts of culture and culture region. 9
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6.15. (B) Describe some traits that define cultures. 8
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6.15. (C) Analyze the similarities and differences among selected world societies. 63
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6.15. (D) Identify and explain examples of conflict and cooperation between and among cultures within selected societies such as Belgium, Canada, and Rwanda. 5
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TX.113.22 (6.16) Culture: The student understands that certain institutions are basic to all societies, but characteristics of these institutions may vary from one society to another.

6.16. (A) Identify institutions basic to all societies, including government, economic, educational, and religious institutions. 7
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6.16. (B) Compare characteristics of institutions in selected contemporary societies. 7
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TX.113.22 (6.17) Culture: The student understands relationships that exist among world cultures.

6.17. (A) Explain aspects that link or separate cultures and societies. 2
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6.17. (B) Explain the impact of political boundaries that cut across culture regions. 4
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6.17. (C) Analyze how culture traits spread. 5
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6.17. (D) Explain why cultures borrow from each other. 19
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6.17. (E) Evaluate how cultural borrowing affects world cultures. 19
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6.17. (F) Evaluate the consequences of improved communication among cultures. 8
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TX.113.22 (6.18) Culture: The student understands the relationship that exists between artistic, creative, and literary expressions and the societies that produce them.

6.18. (A) Explain the relationships that exist between societies and their architecture, art, music, and literature. 24
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6.18. (B) Relate ways in which contemporary expressions of culture have been influenced by the past. 1
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6.18. (C) Describe ways in which societal issues influence creative expressions. 25
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6.18. (D) Identify examples of art, music, and literature that have transcended the boundaries of societies and convey universal themes. 25
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TX.113.22 (6.19) Culture: The student understands the relationships among religion, philosophy, and culture.

6.19. (A) Explain the relationship among religious ideas, philosophical ideas, and cultures. 23
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6.19. (B) Explain the significance of religious holidays and observances such as Christmas and Easter, Ramadan, and Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah in selected contemporary societies. 8
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TX.113.22 (6.20) Science, Technology, and Society: The student understands the relationships among science and technology and political, economic, and social issues and events.

6.20. (A) Give examples of scientific discoveries and technological innovations, including the roles of scientists and inventors, that have transcended the boundaries of societies and have shaped the world. 8
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6.20. (B) Explain how resources, belief systems, economic factors, and political decisions have affected the use of technology from place to place, culture to culture, and society to society. 2
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6.20. (C) Make predictions about future social, economic, and environmental consequences that may result from future scientific discoveries and technological innovations. 44
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TX.113.22 (6.21) Social Studies Skills: The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of sources including electronic technology.

6.21. (A) Differentiate between, locate, and use primary and secondary sources such as computer software, interviews, biographies, oral, print, and visual material artifacts to acquire information about selected world cultures. 18
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6.21. (B) Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions. 48
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6.21. (C) Organize and interpret information from outlines, reports, databases, and visuals including graphs, charts, timelines, and maps. 10
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6.21. (D) Identify different points of view about an issue or topic. 7
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6.21. (E) Identify the elements of frame of reference that influenced participants in an event. 7
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6.21. (F) Use appropriate mathematical skills to interpret social studies information such as maps and graphs. 22
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TX.113.22 (6.22) Social Studies Skills: The student communicates in written, oral, and visual forms.

6.22. (A) Use social studies terminology correctly. 19
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6.22. (B) Incorporate main and supporting ideas in verbal and written communication. 7
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6.22. (C) Express ideas orally based on research and experiences. 7
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6.22. (D) Create written and visual material such as journal entries, reports, graphic organizers, outlines, and bibliographies. 6
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6.22. (E) Use standard grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation. 3
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TX.113.22 (6.23) Social Studies Skills: The student uses problem-solving and decision-making skills, working independently and with others, in a variety of settings.

6.23. (A) Use a problem-solving process to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution. 11
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6.23. (B) Use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, identify options, predict consequences, and take action to implement a decision. 11
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