OVERVIEW

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6th grade Social Studies types of governance TEKS worksheets help students explain how government systems work, using structured practice. This lesson bundle includes 3 worksheet PDFs built for Grade 6, focused on TEKS-aligned civics and the relationships among governance, political institutions, and leadership, so learners can strengthen their reasoning and evidence use 📝.

What’s Included

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• ✅ 6th Grade Social Studies | Types of Governance Worksheet (PDF) – Identify and compare core characteristics of governance systems.
• ✅ 6th Grade Social Studies | Political Institutions Worksheet (PDF) – Explain how institutions organize decision-making and influence civic life.
• ✅ 6th Grade Social Studies Worksheet | Leadership and Power (PDF) – TEKS – Analyze leadership roles and how power shapes governance outcomes.

Skills & Standards

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Designed for TEKS-aligned instruction, these worksheets support crosscutting concepts like systems and causation while students work with disciplinary core ideas related to government structures and civic participation. Each activity includes modeling opportunities (teacher think-alouds for reading prompts and interpreting student responses), then guided analytical reasoning where students sort information, make claims, and justify thinking. Students practice evidence-based explanations by using details from the worksheet materials to support conclusions about how governance, institutions, and leadership connect.

Perfect For

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• Teachers seeking structured instruction
• Sub plans
• Homework or review
• Intervention or centers
• Assessment preparation

How to Use

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Use this as a short multi-day lesson bundle: day 1 for the types of governance worksheet, day 2 for political institutions, and day 3 for leadership and power. Consider starting each day with a brief anchor-chart review, then model one response using the question stems before students complete the worksheet independently or in pairs. For centers, place one worksheet at each station with a sentence-frame support sheet for claims and evidence; for homework or review, assign one page and ask students to bring back a highlighted text detail they used to support their answer.

Closing

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Use these three TEKS-aligned civics worksheets to guide students from governance basics to evidence-based explanations about institutions and leadership.