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7th Grade Economics TEKS(B) trace the development of major industries that contributed to the urbanization of Texas such as transportation, oil and gas, and manufacturing; and (C) explain the changes in the types of jobs and occupations that have resulted from the urbanization of Texas.

What are the factors of production?

•1. Land •2. Labor•3. Capital•4. Entrepreneurship

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Where Would You Settle?You are early Anglos/German citizens who have come from afar. Think: Look at the map and decide where you would travel. Why?

Where would you settle and why?

Pair: Share answers in groups of 2 or 3

Share: Share three answers with the class.

TOPO MAPS OF NORTH AMERICAhttp://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/na.htm

Early German Immigration to Texas

1. In looking at the topographic map of Germany, what do you see?

2. How do you think people made a living based on the structure?

3. In looking at the topo map of North America, what areas are similar to Germany? Where do you predict people will move?

COMPARE GERMANY WITH NORTH AMERICAhttp://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/na.htm

Germany and Texas Topo Maps

German Immigration

What would have pushed people out of Germany?

What would have pulled people to Texas in the early 1800’s?

What was life like for the German Immigrants? Choice 1Read either Caroline Ernst von Roeder von

Hinueber or Kida Kappell Kapp’s primary source account.1. When did her family move here and how old was she?2. Find on the map where she settled.3. Describe the living conditions for the family.4. How did they supply their needs?5. What caused differences in prices?5. Draw a picture that describes her family’s

life.

Placemat: Choice 2

1. Read your selection from page 33 and/or 34.2. What are the main points of the reading?3. Illustrate your key points on the placemat.4. Share your answers. 5. Using the center section, draw the common

answers that the Germans shared.

PlacematStudents place their desks facing each other

so that the desks touch. Each

students draws in his/her rectangle

at the same time. The small center

rectangle will include drawings and symbols that represent a common theme or message.

What was the point?What are three things you learned about life in Texas for the German immigrants?

Anglo-American Colonization: Economic Patterns • Where do you live?• Why do you live here?• Why do you think citizens of the U. S. would

move to Texas?

Vocabulary

How would you write a sentence using all of the terms below for the early Texas colonists?

Wants and needs, limited resources, scarcity, empresario, entrepreneur

Land Land Land• 1. Read page 44• 2. What is the difference between these

three land grants?• 3 Why do you think the land grants were

set up this way?

Primary Source DocumentsRead the three primary source documents.In your own words, write a sentence for each

explaining the meaning of the statement.Who was the author and where did the

author live?Which quote do you like the most? Why?

Student HandoutAnswer the questions showing all of your

math work.Share your answers.What patterns did you see in the answers?

Did you see favoritism-if so how and why?What are two things you learned from this

activity?

What Role Does Geography Play In…

•1. how Texans make a living•2. where people settle

Cotton Industry in Texas1. demand supply goods and services profit2. price natural resources entrepreneur

production Civil War land labor capital3. interdependent

1. Jeans?2. Socks?3. Other?

Are you wearing cotton?

1. What role does geography play in the growth of cotton?

2. Where is it grown?

Critical Questions• What would life be like if there was no cotton?• How important is cotton production to the economy of Texas?• How has the production of cotton changed in TX?• What role does cotton play in economic interdependence?• What role does the climate and soil play in where cotton can be grown?• What economic concepts apply to the production of cotton?

Quick Jigsaw1. 1. Please number the paragraphs on pages 87-88.2. 2. Think: please read your paragraph(s) and think of

a creative way to provide others with the main points.3. 3. Share: please share key points you have learned.

1. The Allen brothers and Buffalo Bayou?

2. Cotton and slavery before the Civil War?

3. Why did immigrants come to Texas after the Civil War?

4. How does the cotton crop connect Texas to the nation and to the world?

What Is the Connection Between…?

How Much Cotton Can Be Grown In One Acre Of Land?

1. Review the figures on page 942. If you were a producer of cotton goods,

what product would you produce and why?

The Process of Producing Cotton in the Early Days of TX

1. Read page 92.

2. Where are the Brazos and Colorado Rivers? Why was cotton grown here?

3. How is production of cotton labor intensive?

4. What is the timeline for production of cotton?

Picking Cotton

1. Read page 93.

2. What type of work would you like to do the most? The least? Why?

Compare Maps1. Read page 97.

2. What differences do you see?

3. Why do you think that west Texas was able to produce cotton by 1929?

Cotton Production Today1. How is cotton production different

today?2. How would economic activities differ?3. What role has technology played in the

changes in production?4. How has the role of human labor

changed over time?

1. How has cotton been an economic milestone?

2. What role did it play with Texas’ involvement in the Civil War?

Oil Boom Time: Spindletop and Texas Today

Laura EwingPresident/CEO

Texas Council on Economic Educationwww.economicstexas.org

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What Role Does Geography Play In…

•1. how Texans make a living•2. where people settle

Texas Boomtowns: the Impact of Oil Discovery on A Community

Economic Vocabulary1. demand supply goods and services profit2. price boomtown entrepreneur production

What would life be like if…•25 new families moved into your neighborhood and every neighborhood in your area?•there were so many more people…what would you need?

What do you see in these photos from 1901?What do you think these photos represent?Where is Beaumont, Longview?

Spindletop Changed Rural Areas to Boomtowns

•Beaumont population grew from 9,000 people to 50,000 in three months.•Breckinridge population went from 600 in 1918 to 30,000 in 1919•February 1931 Longview grew from 5,000 to 10,000 in 2 months

•How would their lives have changed????

Goods and ServicesWhat is the difference?Good: Service:

Which of the items on the list are goods and which are services?

Rank order: which do you think most important to least important.

Primary Sources

1. You are going to be in six different groups.2. Your group will read one primary source together.3. What goods and services are limited in supply?4. What factors caused an increased demand for G & S?5. What new occupations developed? Why?6. Are your lists of important goods and services the same as

those 100 years ago? Explain.7. What examples of entrepreneurship are there? What are

examples of profit motive?

Spindletop Changed Rural Areas to Boomtowns

•Share your answers with your expert group.•Switch groups and share what you learned about the new story

PROCESS

1. Pretend that you live in a community that will soon have a huge boom in population.

2. It is a fictional town in the panhandle of Texas in Floyd County. There are 125 people now. You are close to highway 70.

3. Oil has been discovered and 1000 population is expected within 2 months

PROCESS 2

1. Floyd County: 125 to 1000 population in 2 months2. One gas station which sells groceries (mainly milk

and bread)3. Work in small groups to:

1. A. List problems2. B. What goods and services will they need?3. C. Make a list of actions needed to help people deal

with population boom.

What is Fracking???

. Please read your section of the article: 

http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/tag/fracking/?gclid=CO7FraGdp7ACFWLktgodhx46Yw

Answer the following questions. 1. What is fracking?2. Where is the fracking taking place? 3. What are three important points about what is

happening4. Using the map, what do you notice about locations?

Read your segment of the Eagle Ford Fracking Article and provide pro and con arguments concerning fracking. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-20/eagle-ford-drilling-rush-may-boost-texas-tax-revenue-15-fold.htmlYou will meet with several other students. Each person will explain pros and cons of fracking. Make a list of the pros and cons discussed. Next, choose one pro and one con. Make a list of what you think the next steps should be for these?

What are the Pros and Cons of Fracking?

Compare Beaumont with Small Towns in Texas Today With Fracking?

Beaumont early 1900

Small towns Early 2000

What was the discovery?

Compare the roles that technology played in the discovery.

Compare the roles that geography played in the discovery.

What impact did these discoveries have on urbanization?

What were similar lifestyle and social changes and how the people handled them?

What were differences in lifestyles and social changes and how people handled them?

Middle School:The Economics of Texas and the U. S. Are Upon the

World!Laura Ewing

President/CEOTexas Council on Economic Education

www.economicstexas.orgwww.smartertexas.org

Laura@economicstexas.org713-655-1650