TEKS: Chapter 113. Social Studies See All Teacher Resources

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(3) Social studies skills. If doing qualitative research, the student employs the processes of critical social science inquiry to understand an issue, topic, or area of interest using a variety of sources, checking their credibility, validating and weighing evidence for claims, and searching for causality. The student is expected to:

• (A) interpret the historiography of the research topic;
• (B) apply key social science concepts such as time, chronology, causality, change, conflict, and complexity to explain, analyze, and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity;
• (C) investigate, interpret, and analyze multiple historical and contemporary viewpoints within and across cultures;
• (D) relate important events, recurring dilemmas, and persistent issues to topic; and
• (E) employ empathy, skepticism, and critical judgment to analysis of topic.