Earth and Space Science Resource TEKS Alignment (ESSRTA)
Welcome to our site! We have attempted to align Texas science standards to various excellent resources for pre-service educators to use: information on misconceptions and ways to deal with those misconceptions, appropriate activities to conduct in the classroom, additional information and resource guides, and more.
This is a growing and changing site; as we identify additional resources that we find are valuable, we will add them. Please click on the subject you are interested in to find the resources related to that subject.
Subjects | Grade Levels* | TEKS |
Moon Phases (and Eclipses) |
2 - 8 |
2.7D, 4.6A, 5.6A, 7.13B, 8.12A |
Tides | 5 |
5.6A |
Gravity and Weight | 5 |
5.12D |
Orbits of Planets | 3-7 |
3.11C, 4.6A, 5.12D, 7.13B |
Seasons | K-7 |
K.5B, K.7C, 1.7C, 2.7D, 4.6A, 5.6A, 7.13A |
Weather | K-6 |
K.7C, 1.7C, 2.7D, 4.6A, 6.14C |
Day and Night | K-7 |
K.5B, 4.6A, 5.6A, 7.13A |
Solar Radiation | 3-8 |
K.7B, 3.11D, 4.11C, 5..8A, 7.8B, 8.10B |
Solar Characteristics | 3-8 |
3.11D, 6.13A, 8.10B |
Planetary Characteristics | 3-6 |
3.11C, 6.5A, 6.5B, 6.13A |
Earth-Moon Comparisons | 5-6 |
5.12C, 6.5A, 6.5B, 6.13A |
Space Travel | 6 |
6.13B |
Volcanism | 6-8 |
5.12B, 6.6C, 7.5A, 7.14A, 8.14B |
Impacts and Craters | 5-8 |
5.12C, 6.13A, 7.14A, 8.14B |
Erosion | 3-7 |
3.6B, 4.10A, 5.11A, 5.12A, 6.6C, 7.14B, 8.14A |
Geological Principles /Plate tectonics | 3-8 |
3.6B, 4.10B, 5.12A, 6.6C, 8.14A |
Rocks and Soil | K-8 |
K.10A, 1.10B, 3.11B, 4.11A, 5.11C, 5.12B, 6.14A, 8.12A |
Origins of the Universe | 8 |
8.13C |
Stellar Evolution | 8 |
8.13A |
Galaxies and the Universe | 8 |
8.13A, 8.13B |
* These are the grade levels that these particular subjects are present in the Texas Science Standards, and do not necessarily reflect the ages at which these subjects are best taught.