Overview

Economic decision-making and trade networks come to life in this Grade 6 Social Studies TEKS lesson bundle with 4 focused worksheets. Students practice reading economic situations, identifying choices and scarcity, and explaining how trade and economic institutions affect communities 📈.

What’s Included

• ✅ 6th Grade Social Studies | Trade Networks Worksheet (PDF) – TEKS – Students analyze how goods and services move through trade connections and patterns.
• ✅ 6th Grade Social Studies | Scarcity and Choices Worksheet (TEKS) – Students use real-world scenarios to connect scarcity to everyday decisions.
• ✅ 6th Grade Social Studies Worksheet – Economic Institutions TEKS (PDF) – Students identify economic institutions and describe their roles in supporting exchange.
• ✅ 6th Grade Social Studies Worksheet – Economic Decision-Making (PDF) – Students practice making choices, justifying reasoning, and using information from the prompt.

Skills & Standards

This TEKS-aligned set emphasizes crosscutting concepts such as cause and effect, patterns, and systems and system models while building disciplinary core ideas related to economics, including scarcity, choice, and how economic institutions support trade. Each worksheet supports modeling by prompting students to work through a process (identify the problem, select relevant evidence, and connect outcomes to choices). Students strengthen analytical reasoning by interpreting situations and organizing information, then demonstrating evidence-based explanations through written responses that reference details from the worksheet.

Perfect For

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

How to Use

Use the worksheets as a compact mini-unit inside a larger TEKS sequence: plan a multi-day pacing of about 1–2 days per worksheet, beginning with Trade Networks, then Scarcity and Choices, followed by Economic Institutions, and finishing with Economic Decision-Making for a culminating reasoning check. For classroom implementation, introduce vocabulary briefly, model one item using a think-aloud, and have students complete the remaining tasks independently or in small groups with a quick share-out of their evidence-based explanations. If you need differentiation, provide a word bank for written responses and use centers where students rotate through short response prompts before completing the full worksheet.

Closing

Download this lesson bundle to support student understanding of trade and economic choices with clear TEKS-focused worksheets.