Vanished Trades · Grades 5–8 · Social Studies (19 TAC Ch. 113) + Career Development (Ch. 127)
These alignments are a good‑faith, paraphrased mapping to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills — they are aligned to, not reproduced from the TEKS. Verify current Student Expectation numbers against the official TAC before adoption; strands are stable but codes are periodically renumbered.
The activity also supports the English Language Proficiency Standards (19 TAC Ch. 89, ELPS) through its seven‑language design and paired visual + text supports for multilingual learners.
| TEKS | Student Expectation (paraphrased) | How this activity aligns |
|---|---|---|
| §113.x — Economics & the free enterprise system | Students explain how technological change affects the goods and services produced and the jobs available. | Each exhibit ties a vanished job to the technology that replaced it. |
| §113.x — Science, technology & society | Students analyze how scientific and technological changes affect the way people live and work. | Nine trades show cause-and-effect between invention and the disappearance of work. |
| Ch. 127 — Career development | Students investigate how careers change over time and why some occupations decline. | Students reason about why each occupation faded and reflect on jobs that may change next. |
| §113.x — Chronology & change over time | Students sequence and describe changes across time periods. | Each reveal gives the era a trade was common and what came after. |