Social Studies TEKS
Kindergarten
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113.2 b8 Government. The student understands the purpose of
rules. The student is expected to:
(A) identify purposes for
having rules; and
(B) identify rules that provide
order, security, and safety in the home and school.
Grade 1 -
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113.3 b10 Government. The student understands the purpose of
rules and laws. The student is expected to:
(A) explain the need for rules
and laws in the home, school, and community; and
(B) give examples of rules or
laws that establish order, provide security, and manage conflict.
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113.3 b13D
explain how selected customs, symbols, and celebrations reflect an American
love of individualism, inventiveness, and freedom.
Grade 2 -
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113.4 b11 Government. The student understands the purpose of
governments. The student is expected to:
(A) identify functions of
governments;
(C) describe how governments
establish order, provide security, and manage conflict.
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113.4 b14C explain how selected customs, symbols, and
celebrations reflect an American love of individualism, inventiveness, and
freedom.
Grade 3 -
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113.5 b2 History.
The student understands common characteristics of communities, past and
present. The student is expected to:
(A) identify reasons people
have formed communities, including a need for security, law, and material
well-being; and
(B) compare ways in which
people in the local community and communities around the world meet their
needs for government, education, communication, transportation, and
recreation, over time and in the present.
Grade 4 -
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113.6 b16 Government.
The student understands important ideas in historic documents of Texas. The
student is expected to:
(A) identify the purposes and
explain the importance of the Texas Declaration of Independence, the Texas
Constitution, and the Treaty of Velasco
Grade 5 -
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113.7 b16B explain
the purposes of the U.S. Constitution as identified in the Preamble to the
Constitution.
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113.7 b17 Government.
The student understands the framework of government created by the U.S.
Constitution . . .
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113.7
b21 Citizenship. The student understands the fundamental rights of
American citizens guaranteed in the Bill of Rights and other amendments to
the U.S. Constitution. The student is expected to:
(B) describe important
individual rights including freedom of religion, speech, and press and the
right to assemble and petition the government;
(C) describe important due
process rights including trial by jury and the right to an attorney; and
(D) summarize selected
amendments to the U.S. Constitution such as those that extended voting
rights of U.S. citizens.
Grade 6 -
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113.22 b11 Government. The student understands the
concepts of limited governments, such as constitutional and democratic
governments, and unlimited governments, such as totalitarian and
nondemocratic governments.
(Julie Briggs)
