TEKS: Chapter 113. Social Studies See All Teacher Resources

113.18.b.21

(21) Social studies skills. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired through established research methodologies from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology. The student is expected to:

• (A) differentiate between, locate, and use valid primary and secondary sources such as computer software; interviews; biographies; oral, print, and visual material; and artifacts to acquire information about various world cultures;
• (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;
• (C) organize and interpret information from outlines, reports, databases, and visuals, including graphs, charts, timelines, and maps;
• (D) identify different points of view about an issue or current topic;
• (E) identify the elements of frame of reference that influenced participants in an event; and
• (F) use appropriate mathematical skills to interpret social studies information such as maps and graphs.