Unit 2: Texas Geography – 7th Grade Texas History Social Studies Curriculum TEKS

Are you a 7th grade middle school social studies teacher looking to find quality TEKS-aligned resources that cover Texas Geography? Looking for minimal-prep and engaging lessons and activities to teach social studies concepts to your 7th grade students? Look no further!

This Unit 2 BUNDLE of the Smart and Simple Social Studies 7th Grade Texas History Guided Curriculum is about Texas Geography.

This 5-week Texas Geography unit helps 7th-grade students understand how land, people, and the environment shape Texas. Students begin by studying the four regions of Texas, comparing landforms, climate, resources, and major cities to see how geography influences settlement and daily life.

Students then examine the population of Texas, exploring why people moved to Texas, where they settled, and how immigration and migration changed culture, cities, and communities. They use demographic concepts to analyze population growth and how it affects needs.

The unit concludes with an exploration of the effects of the Texas environment, focusing on how Texans adapt to and modify their surroundings and the positive and negative consequences of those choices. Students also analyze how geographic factors influence Texas’s political, economic, and social development, building a strong understanding of how geography continues to shape Texas today

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This 5-week unit includes lesson plans, warmups, guided notes, practice activities, assessments, a unit project, and more. Each lesson includes slideshows in both PowerPoint and Google Slides, as well as student digital activities for warm-ups, notes, practice activities, and assessments.

This unit primarily correlates to the current TEKS 7th grade Social Studies standards (adopted 2024). It includes EVERYTHING you need to teach about Texas Geography – just print & go!

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TEKS Standards Covered in this section: 7.8, 7.9, 7.10

Social Studies Skills Covered: 7.20 through 7.23

This unit covers the following topics:

• Lesson 1: Introduction to the Texas Regions
• Lesson 2: Physical Characteristics of Texas
• Lesson 3: Effects of Physical Factors on Major Events in Texas
• Lesson 4: Human Characteristics of Texas
• Lesson 5: Effects of Human Factors on Major Events in Texas
• Lesson 6: Regions of Texas Review/Flex Day
• Lesson 7: Regions of Texas Assessment
• Lesson 8: Immigration in Texas Over Time
• Lesson 9: How Immigration Influenced Texas
• Lesson 10: How Migration Influenced Texas
• Lesson 11: Population in Texas
• Lesson 12: Effects of Population Growth and Changing Distribution in Texas
• Lesson 13: Population of Texas Review/Flex Day
• Lesson 14: Population of Texas Assessment
• Lesson 15: How Texans Have Adapted to and Modified the Environment
• Lesson 16: Consequences of Modifying the Environment in Texas
• Lesson 17: How Geographic Factors Shaped the Political Development of Texas
• Lesson 18: How Geographic Factors Shaped the Economic Development of Texas
• Lesson 19: How Geographic Factors Shaped the Social Development of Texas
• Lesson 20: Effects of the Texas Environment/Flex Day
• Lesson 21: Effects of the Texas Environment Assessment
• Lessons 22-25: Texas Geography Project

What’s included in this resource?

• Scope and Sequence
• 25 Teacher Lesson Plan Guides
• 25 Daily Social Studies Spiral Review Slides + 2 Recording Sheet options
• 21 Non-Editable Slideshows (Google Drive & PPT versions)
• Guided Notes for 21 Lessons (3 versions: complete, skeleton notes, blank notes; 2 size options: full-page size for binder and smaller size for notebooks)
• 21 Practice Activities with a “Think About It” exit ticket at the end of each activity
• 3 Study Guides
• 3 Assessments
• 1 Unit Project
• Digital and Full-Color Versions of Student Activities
• Answer Keys for all activities

What makes this Guided Social Studies Curriculum Smart and Simple?

✅ The social studies daily lessons and activities are bite-sized and can easily be implemented in 40-60 minutes.

✅ The social studies curriculum is fully TEKS-aligned (for Texas) but is still flexible enough to use in any order.

✅ Each social studies unit has everything you need to simply teach social studies – easy-to-follow lesson plans, warmups, guided notes, practice activities, and more!

It’s everything you need to implement engaging social studies lessons that students love and teachers enjoy (because it’s comprehensive and easy to prep)!