Laura Ewing
President/CEO
Texas Council on Economic Education
www.economicstexas.org
www.smartertexas.org
Laura@economicstexas.org
713-655-1650
• Teaches teachers who teach students who are the
future of Texas
• Provides interesting hands-on lessons that develop
critical thinking skills for students in Economics,
Social Studies, Math, and Career/Technical
Education classes.
TCEE Summer Conference 2013
 Tentative Dates: June 20-21
San Antonio, TX
 Audience: Teachers and Audiences
Who Work With:
 K-12 Social Studies
 Economics
 K to 8 Math
 Career
October 4-5 Teacher Conference
TCEE and CEE will be
providing scholarships
Baltimore, MD
Conference
Personal Financial
Literacy Challenge
 Middle and High School
 Fall and spring online
challenges will
determine state finalist
candidates
 Middle School Students
Compete for cash prizes
Teams of 2 to 5 students
Grades 4 to 12
Cost: $10 a team
10 week Student Session
Each Fall and Spring
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www.economicstexas.org
Go to resources and free books
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4
grade teks
(B) identify oil and gas, agricultural, and technological
products of Texas that are purchased to meet needs in the
United States and around the world; and
(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.
(12) Economics. The student understands why various
sections of the United States developed different patterns of
economic activity. The student is expected to:
(A) identify economic differences among different regions of
the United States;
(C) explain the reasons for the increase in factories and
urbanization; and
(D) analyze the causes and effects of economic differences
among different regions of the United States at selected times
in U.S. history.
US History Post Reconstruction
TEKS
 (3) History. The student understands the political,
economic, and social changes in the United States
from 1877 to 1898. The student is expected to:
 (B) analyze economic issues such as industrialization,
the growth of railroads, the growth of labor unions,
farm issues, the cattle industry boom, the rise of
entrepreneurship, free enterprise, and the pros and
cons of big business;
US History Post Reconstruction
TEKS
(27) Science, technology, and society. The student understands the impact of
science, technology, and the free enterprise system on the economic development
of the United States. The student is expected to:
(A)explain the effects of scientific discoveries and technological innovations such
as electric power, telephone and satellite communications, petroleum-based
products, steel production, and computers on the economic development of
the United States;
•1.
how Texans make a living
•2. where people settle
•1.
Land
•2. Labor
•3. Capital
•4. Entrepreneurship
1.
2.
demand supply
price boomtown
goods and services profit
entrepreneur production
•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?
•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????
What 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.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
You are going to be in six different groups.
Your group will read one primary source together.
What goods and services are limited in supply?
What factors caused an increased demand for G & S?
What new occupations developed? Why?
Are your lists of important goods and services the same as those
100 years ago? Explain.
What examples of entrepreneurship are there? What are
examples of profit motive?
•Share your answers with your expert group.
•Switch groups and share what you learned about
the new story
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
1.
1.
2.
3.
Floyd County: 125 to 1000 population in 2 months
One gas station which sells groceries (mainly milk and
bread)
Work in small groups to:
1.
2.
3.
A. List problems
B. What goods and services will they need?
C. Make a list of actions needed to help people deal with
population boom.
. Please read your section of the article:
http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/tag/fracking/?gclid=CO7FraGd
p7ACFWLktgodhx46Yw
Answer the following questions.
1. What is fracking?
2. Where is the fracking taking place?
3. What are three important points about what is happening
4. 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-drillingrush-may-boost-texas-tax-revenue-15-fold.html
You 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?
Beaumont early
1900
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?
Small towns
2000s
Process
 What is the point?
 What are the similarities and differences between
Spindletop and today?