Texas Content Area Standards

• Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.1

  The student demonstrates professional standards/employability skills as required by business and industry. The student is expected to:

  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.1.B: apply competencies related to resources, information, interpersonal skills, problem solving, critical thinking, and systems of operation in agriculture, food, and natural resources.

• Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.3

  The student analyzes concepts related to global diversity. The student is expected to:

  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.3.A: compare and contrast global agricultural markets, currency, and trends.
  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.3.B: evaluate marketing factors and practices that impact the global markets.

• Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.4

  The student explains the historical, current, and future significance of the agriculture, food, and natural resources industry. The student is expected to:

  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.4.B: analyze the scope of agriculture, food, and natural resources and its effect upon society.
  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.4.C: evaluate significant historical and current agriculture, food, and natural resources developments.
  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.4.F: compare and contrast issues impacting agriculture, food, and natural resources such as biotechnology, employment, safety, environment, and animal welfare issues.
  • Principles, of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.4.D: identify potential future scenarios for agriculture, food, and natural resources systems, including global impacts.

• Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.6

  The student demonstrates appropriate personal and communication skills. The student is expected to:

  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.6.A: demonstrate written and oral communication skills appropriate for formal and informal situations such as prepared and extemporaneous presentations.
  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.6.B: demonstrate effective listening skills appropriate for formal and informal situations.

• Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits: 113.31.c.1

  Economics. The student understands the concepts of scarcity and opportunity costs.

  • Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits: 1.A: The student is expected to explain why scarcity and choice are basic economic problems faced by every society.
  • Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits: 1.B: The student is expected to describe how societies answer the basic economic questions: what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.
  • Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits: 1.C: The student is expected to describe the economic factors of production: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.

• Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits: 113.31.c.23

  Social studies skills. The student uses problem-solving and decision-making skills, working independently with others.

  • Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits: 23: The student is expected to use problem-solving and decision-making processes to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution.

• Agribusiness Management and Marketing: 130.4.c.5

  The student defines and examines agribusiness management and marketing and its importance to the local and international economy. The student is expected to:

  • Agribusiness Management and Marketing: 130.4.c.5.A: describe the roles and functions of management and leadership in agribusiness.
  • Agribusiness Management and Marketing: 130.4.c.5.B: identify key economic principles of free enterprise.
  • Agribusiness Management and Marketing: 130.4.c.5.C: analyze the economic opportunities of agribusiness.

• Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits: 113.31.c.2

  Economics. The student understands the interaction of supply, demand, and price.

  • Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits: 2.A: The student is expected to understand the effect of changes in price on the quantity demanded and quantity supplied.
  • Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits: 2.B: The student is expected to identify the non-price determinants that create changes in supply and demand, which result in a new equilibrium price.

• Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits: 113.31.c.17

  Personal financial literacy. The student understands the role of individuals in financial markets.

  • Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits: 17.A: The student is expected to assess ways to be a wise investor in the stock market and in other personal investment options such as developing a personal retirement plan.

• English I: 110.36.c.1

  Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

  • English I: 1.A: The student is expected to engage in meaningful and respectful discourse by listening actively, responding appropriately, and adjusting communication to audiences and purposes.

• English II: 110.37.c.1

  Developing and sustaining foundation language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

  • English II: 1.A: The student is expected to engage in meaningful and respectful discourse by listening actively, responding appropriately, and adjusting communication to audiences and purposes.

• English III: 110.38.c.1

  Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

  • English III: 1.A: The student is expected to engage in meaningful and respectful discourse when evaluating the clarity and coherence of a speaker's message and critiquing the impact of a speaker's use of diction and syntax.

• English IV: 110.39.c.1

  Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

  • English IV: 1.A: The student is expected to engage in meaningful and respectful discourse when evaluating the clarity and coherence of a speaker's message and critiquing the impact of a speaker's use of diction, syntax, and rhetorical strategies.

• Environmental Systems: 112.37.c.5

  Science concepts. The student knows the interrelationships among the resources within the local environmental system.

  • Environmental Systems: 5.C: The student is expected to document the use and conservation of both renewable and non-renewable resources as they pertain to sustainability.
  • Environmental Systems: 5.E: The student is expected to analyze and evaluate the economic significance and interdependence of resources within the environmental system.

• Environmental Systems: 112.50.c.6

  Science concepts. The student knows the interrelationships among the resources within the local environmental system. The student is expected to:

  • Environmental Systems: 112.50.c.6.C: document the use and conservation of both renewable and non-renewable resources as they pertain to sustainability
  • Environmental Systems: 112.50.c.6.E: analyze and evaluate the economic significance and interdependence of resources within the local environmental system