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TEXES EC-6 Social Studies Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Social Studies - ✔✔is an umbrella term encompassing the disciplines of history, geography, civics and
government, economics, and psychology.
TEKS in Social Studies - ✔✔The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) is the state curriculum for
kindergarten to grade 12. The TEKS organizes the social studies content inductively, from the known to
the unknown. In this alignment, children begin learning about the self in kindergarten and expand their
knowledge with each successive grade, eventually encompassing the community, the state, the nation,
and the world.
Key Components of Kindergarten Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔Child, Home, Family, and Classroom.
1. The child as an individual.
2. Home and Families
3. State and national heritage
4. Patriotic holidays and the contribution of historical character
Key Components of 1st Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔Child's Relationship to the Classroom,
School and Community
1. The concept of chronology developed by distinguishing among past, present, and future
2. Anthems and mottoes of Texas and the United States
3. Relationship among the classroom, school, and community.
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Key Components of 2nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔Local Community
1. Impact of significant individuals and events in the history of the community, state and nation
2. Concepts of time and chronology by measuring calendar time by days, weeks, months, and years
3. Relationship between the physical environment and human activities
4. Functions of government and the services it provides.
Key Components of 3rd Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔How Individuals Change Their
Communities and the World
1. Past and present heroes and their contributions
2. People who overcame obstacles
3. Economic, cultural, and scientific contributions made by individuals.
Key Components of 4th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔History of Texas
1. History of Texas from its beginning to the present
2. Events and individuals of the 19th and 20th centuries
3. Human activity and physical features of regions in Texas and the Western Hemisphere
4. Native Americans in Texas and the Western Hemisphere
5. European exploration and colonization
6. Types of Native American governments
7. Characteristics of Spanish and Mexican colonial governments
Key Components of 5th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔United States History
1. History of the United States from its beginning to the present
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2. Significant events and individuals of the late 19th and 20th centuries, including contributions of
important inventors and scientists
3. Regions of the United States that result from physical features and human activity
4. Characteristics and benefits of the free enterprise system
5. Roots of representative government
6. Important ideas in the Declaration of Independence
7. Meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance
8. Fundamental rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights
9,. Customs and celebrations of racial, ethnic, and religious groups in the United States
Key Components of 6th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔People and Places of the Contemporary
World
1. This part of the curriculum is designed to introduce students to the concepts of cultural geography. The
discipline of geography explores patterns, relationships, and processes at least to global scale.
2. People and places of the contemporary world
3. Societies from the following regions in the world: Europe, Russia and the Eurasian republics, North
America, Middle America, South America, Southwest Asia-North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, South Asia,
Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific realms.
4. Influence of individuals and groups from different cultures on selected historical and contemporary
events
5. Different ways of organizing economic and governmental systems
Literature Based Approach - ✔✔Ideal way to integrate Social Studies with language arts.
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Through the use of authentic multicultural literature, teachers can expose children to quality reading as
well as the cultures of the many ethnic and linguistic groups living in the United States.
Social studies is strongly linked with English Language Arts and Reading. It not only requires strong
reading and writing skills but also support reading by providing an understanding of the history as well
as the physical and cultural characteristics of a place.
Thematic Instruction - ✔✔In this approach, a teacher or teachers select a theme and organize content area
instruction around it. It can be done in a self-contained classroom or in a departmental format in which
several teachers teach the content.
Ideal for ELL's because the use of a common theme in multiple content areas makes content more
cognitively accessible for them.
Maps; Globes - ✔✔Symbolic representation can pose challenges for children in kindergarten through
grade 4 and occasionally in grades 5 and 6. _________ and __________ are tools for representing space
symbolically.
Globes - ✔✔are a mathematical model of the Earth and show correct, unaltered (not distorted) distance,
size, and shape of continents and bodies of water. They can also help in studying the proportion of land
and water.
Globe for Kindergarten through 3rd grade - ✔✔Teachers should use a simplified 12-inch globe that uses
no more that 3 colors to represent land elevation and no more than 2 colors to represent water depth. The
globe should include only the largest river, cities, and oceans.
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TEXES EC-6 Social Studies Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Social Studies - ✔✔is an umbrella term encompassing the disciplines of history, geography, civics and
government, economics, and psychology.
TEKS in Social Studies - ✔✔The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) is the state curriculum for
kindergarten to grade 12. The TEKS organizes the social studies content inductively, from the known to
the unknown. In this alignment, children begin learning about the self in kindergarten and expand their
knowledge with each successive grade, eventually encompassing the community, the state, the nation,
and the world.
Key Components of Kindergarten Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔Child, Home, Family, and Classroom.
1. The child as an individual.
2. Home and Families
3. State and national heritage
4. Patriotic holidays and the contribution of historical character
Key Components of 1st Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔Child's Relationship to the Classroom,
School and Community
1. The concept of chronology developed by distinguishing among past, present, and future
2. Anthems and mottoes of Texas and the United States
3. Relationship among the classroom, school, and community.
Emily Charlene © 2025, All Rights Reserved.
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Key Components of 2nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔Local Community
1. Impact of significant individuals and events in the history of the community, state and nation
2. Concepts of time and chronology by measuring calendar time by days, weeks, months, and years
3. Relationship between the physical environment and human activities
4. Functions of government and the services it provides.
Key Components of 3rd Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔How Individuals Change Their
Communities and the World
1. Past and present heroes and their contributions
2. People who overcame obstacles
3. Economic, cultural, and scientific contributions made by individuals.
Key Components of 4th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔History of Texas
1. History of Texas from its beginning to the present
2. Events and individuals of the 19th and 20th centuries
3. Human activity and physical features of regions in Texas and the Western Hemisphere
4. Native Americans in Texas and the Western Hemisphere
5. European exploration and colonization
6. Types of Native American governments
7. Characteristics of Spanish and Mexican colonial governments
Key Components of 5th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔United States History
1. History of the United States from its beginning to the present
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2. Significant events and individuals of the late 19th and 20th centuries, including contributions of
important inventors and scientists
3. Regions of the United States that result from physical features and human activity
4. Characteristics and benefits of the free enterprise system
5. Roots of representative government
6. Important ideas in the Declaration of Independence
7. Meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance
8. Fundamental rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights
9,. Customs and celebrations of racial, ethnic, and religious groups in the United States
Key Components of 6th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - ✔✔People and Places of the Contemporary
World
1. This part of the curriculum is designed to introduce students to the concepts of cultural geography. The
discipline of geography explores patterns, relationships, and processes at least to global scale.
2. People and places of the contemporary world
3. Societies from the following regions in the world: Europe, Russia and the Eurasian republics, North
America, Middle America, South America, Southwest Asia-North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, South Asia,
Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific realms.
4. Influence of individuals and groups from different cultures on selected historical and contemporary
events
5. Different ways of organizing economic and governmental systems
Literature Based Approach - ✔✔Ideal way to integrate Social Studies with language arts.
Emily Charlene © 2025, All Rights Reserved.
, 4|Page
Through the use of authentic multicultural literature, teachers can expose children to quality reading as
well as the cultures of the many ethnic and linguistic groups living in the United States.
Social studies is strongly linked with English Language Arts and Reading. It not only requires strong
reading and writing skills but also support reading by providing an understanding of the history as well
as the physical and cultural characteristics of a place.
Thematic Instruction - ✔✔In this approach, a teacher or teachers select a theme and organize content area
instruction around it. It can be done in a self-contained classroom or in a departmental format in which
several teachers teach the content.
Ideal for ELL's because the use of a common theme in multiple content areas makes content more
cognitively accessible for them.
Maps; Globes - ✔✔Symbolic representation can pose challenges for children in kindergarten through
grade 4 and occasionally in grades 5 and 6. _________ and __________ are tools for representing space
symbolically.
Globes - ✔✔are a mathematical model of the Earth and show correct, unaltered (not distorted) distance,
size, and shape of continents and bodies of water. They can also help in studying the proportion of land
and water.
Globe for Kindergarten through 3rd grade - ✔✔Teachers should use a simplified 12-inch globe that uses
no more that 3 colors to represent land elevation and no more than 2 colors to represent water depth. The
globe should include only the largest river, cities, and oceans.
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