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4th grade · Social Studies · Unit 14 of 14

Texas Through Time

Put Texas history in order

What your child practices

Ordering events in Texas history from the first explorers to the space age, plus primary and secondary sources, decades and centuries, cause and effect and points of view.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 4.19(A); 4.19(B); 4.19(C); 4.19(D); 4.19(E) · putting Texas history in order and working with primary and secondary sources

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A timeline puts events in order. A decade is 10 years and a century is 100 years.
  2. Order: explorers, missions, Mexican Texas, the Revolution (1836), statehood (1845), Civil War, Juneteenth (1865), oil (1901).
  3. Every event has causes and effects.

Example: Which came first: Spindletop oil, or Texas becomes a state? Statehood was in 1845. Spindletop was in 1901. Answer: Texas becomes a state

Texas Through Time in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 14 of 14 in 4th grade Social Studies, after Symbols & Celebrations.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Put these events in order, earliest first.

    • The Battle of Gonzales starts the Texas Revolution
    • Texas secedes and joins the Confederacy
    • The current Texas Constitution is adopted
    • Freedom is announced in Galveston (Juneteenth)

  2. Question 2

    An interview with someone who lived through the Dust Bowl is a…

    • primary source
    • atlas
    • secondary source
    • textbook

  3. Question 3

    Put these events in order, earliest first.

    • Texas is readmitted to the Union
    • The U.S.-Mexican War ends
    • Barbara Jordan is elected to the Texas Senate
    • Freedom is announced in Galveston (Juneteenth)

  4. Question 4

    A century is…

    • 50 years
    • 10 years
    • 100 years
    • 1,000 years

  5. Question 5

    In what year did this happen? The current Texas Constitution is adopted

    • 1876
    • 1901
    • 1845
    • 1813

  6. Question 6

    An artifact is…

    • a story made up today
    • an object made and used by people in the past
    • a kind of tax
    • a map scale

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