Better Vice Club
Texas standards alignment
Designed for high school. Below is every Texasstandard these courses cover: the exact code, the standard's own words, and the lesson that covers it. Where we only cover part of a standard, it says so, and says which part.
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- partially covered
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Read this before you rely on it
- We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by Better Vice Club against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by Texas's education authority or by anyone else.
- Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
- Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
- We would rather claim less. Where the courses only partly cover a standard, this page says partially covered and explains the gap. Standards we considered and could not honestly claim are listed at the bottom, with the reasons.
Filtering by course: BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- All courses
- BVC: Beer — Liquid Bread
- BVC: Cannabis — The Green Revolution
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Coca — White Lines
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: Khat — The Afternoon Leaf
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Opioids — The Poppy's Promise
- BVC: Psychedelics — The Mushroom's Message
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Tobacco — Sacred Smoke
- BVC: Whiskey — Fire Water
Showing 6 standards in Social Studies covered by BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis. Clear filters
Texas · Social Studies
TEKS for Social Studies — World Geography Studies (§113.43)
One Credit · Adopted 2022 · effective August 1, 2024 (19 TAC ch. 113, subch. C) · Texas Education Agency (TEA) / State Board of Education (SBOE) · retrieved 2026-07-17
World Geography Studies is where the BVC Commodity Map maps most fully: the course examines people, places, and environments and how location shapes economic activity in different economic systems — exactly the curriculum's spine. Codes are Texas's own TEKS, transcribed verbatim.
Read the source document →§113.43(d)(10)(D)
Coveredcompare global trade patterns over time and analyze the implications of globalization, including outsourcing and free trade zones.
Covered by
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
- · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
- · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
- · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
- · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
- · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
- · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
Note: Evaluating who wins and loses from global trade is the series' spine — 21 episodes trace market access and income against the commodity trap and value captured downstream, and test the pattern.
§113.43(d)(12)(A)
Coveredanalyze how the creation, distribution, and management of key natural resources affects the location and patterns of movement of products, money, and people;
Covered by
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
- · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
- · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
- · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
- · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
- · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
- · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
- · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
- · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
- · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
- · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
- · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
Note: The whole curriculum follows a resource from where it can grow through who captures its value along the chain — resources driving the movement of products, money, and people.
§113.43(d)(18)(C)
Coveredidentify examples of cultures that maintain traditional ways, including traditional economies;
Covered by
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
- · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
- · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics
Note: The reciprocity economies of the kava and forest-wisdom episodes are exactly this — traditional economies studied as living systems against the market.
§113.43(d)(10)(A)
Partially covereddescribe the forces that determine the distribution of goods and services in traditional, free enterprise, socialist, and communist economic systems;
Covered by
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
- · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
- · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics
What we do and don't cover: Traditional (reciprocity) economies are contrasted with market economies directly and at length. The socialist and communist systems the standard also names are touched only through the Poland (Solidarność) case, not surveyed as economic systems here.
Texas · Social Studies
TEKS for Social Studies — World History Studies (§113.42)
One Credit · Adopted 2022 · effective August 1, 2024 (19 TAC ch. 113, subch. C) · Texas Education Agency (TEA) / State Board of Education (SBOE) · retrieved 2026-07-17
World History Studies is where the BVC series' colonial and commodity history maps — conquest and the Columbian Exchange, the Atlantic slave trade, European imperialism, and the collapse of communism. Codes are Texas's own TEKS, transcribed verbatim.
Read the source document →§113.42(d)(8)(C)
Coveredexplain the major characteristics and impact of European imperialism;
Covered by
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: Opioids — The Poppy's Promise
- BVC: Khat — The Afternoon Leaf
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- · Ep 2 · Who Grows the Tea (colonial and plantation labour)
- · Ep 5 · Whose Knowledge Is It
- · Ep 6 · Kava Governs
- · Ep 17 · The Opium Wars
- · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence
- · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
- · Ep 5 · How Coca-Cola Got Its Name (biopiracy)
- · Ep 7 · The Same Story, Six Times
- · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom (the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty)
- · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter
Note: European imperialism upon indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia, and Oceania is analyzed through the commodities it moved — including the Opium Wars — and how colonial patterns persist today.
Texas · Social Studies
TEKS for Social Studies — Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System (§113.31)
One-Half Credit · Adopted 2022 · effective August 1, 2024 (19 TAC ch. 113, subch. C) · Texas Education Agency (TEA) / State Board of Education (SBOE) · retrieved 2026-07-17
Texas's required Economics course is filed in the social studies department (recommended for Grade 12). The BVC series supplies three of its standards — price behavior, trade and trade barriers, and evaluating economic sources — through real commodity markets. Codes are Texas's own TEKS, transcribed verbatim.
Read the source document →§113.31(d)(3)(B)
Coveredcompare the effects of free trade and trade barriers on economic activities, including the benefits and costs of participating in international trade; and
Covered by
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
- · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
- · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
- · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
- · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
- · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
- · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
- · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
Note: Both halves: the U.S. sugar program's import quotas, tariffs, and price supports (a trade barrier worked in detail, with its consumer cost) and the benefits and costs of trade traced along real commodity chains.
What we don't claim
A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:
- Mathematics and Personal Financial Literacy — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Texas mathematics TEKS. It also does no personal-finance instruction, so the Personal Financial Literacy strands of Economics (§113.31(d)(15)-(20)) and the standalone Personal Financial Literacy course (§113.49) are not claimed.
- Science — Texas is NOT an NGSS state, and we did not fetch its science TEKS. Texas writes its own science TEKS (19 TAC Chapter 112), not the Next Generation Science Standards. This catalog has no laboratory work, investigations, or modelling, and we did not fetch the Texas science standards this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Texas gets no science claim — unlike Arizona, where we fetched the document and found two Earth-science partials.
- Grade 7 Texas History (§113.20) — where the flagship's fullest home lives, not yet fetched. Texas's dedicated instruction on the Texas Constitution, the plural executive, Texas's courts, and Texas local government sits in Grade 7 Texas History (§113.20, Subchapter B, middle school). That is the natural 1:1 home for Texas Civics. We mapped the flagship into the high-school United States Government course's national/state/local comparison standards ((d)(7)(H), (d)(9)(A)) this pass, honestly as partial, and defer §113.20 to a later pass rather than cite standards we have not read.
- Texas has no citizen-initiative standard, because Texas has no citizen initiative. A distinctive flagship lesson is that Texas has NO statewide citizen initiative — only the Legislature may propose constitutional amendments. Arizona's and California's standards reward teaching their direct-democracy tools; Texas's do not, because there is nothing of the kind to teach. So that lesson, though central to understanding Texas, maps to no TEKS and we claim none for it. The gap is in Texas's government, correctly reflected in its standards.
- Most of the United States Government federal-heavy standards. §113.44(d)(1) (founding philosophy and individuals as named content), (d)(2) (parties, interest groups, and media affecting public policy — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), (d)(3) (geography of districts, gerrymandering, Baker v. Carr), (d)(4)-(5) (government and the free enterprise economy, fiscal policy, international trade set by the branches), (d)(10) (political parties and the two-party system), (d)(11) (comparing the U.S. to other political systems as named content), (d)(16)-(18) (government policy and culture; science, technology, and government) — the courses do not genuinely teach these as the standard requires, so we do not claim them.
- The landmark-cases overlap is thin, and we say so. Our Know Your Rights course teaches Tinker, Brandenburg, Mapp, Terry, T.L.O., Riley, and Carpenter as applicable rules. The US Government standard §113.44(d)(12)(E) enumerates Engel, Schenck, Texas v. Johnson, Miranda, Gideon, Mapp, and Roe — Mapp is the only direct overlap (Tinker appears separately in US History §113.41(d)(20)(A)). We claim the case-application skill as partial and do not pretend to cover this standard's specific case list.
- The rest of World History, US History, World Geography, and Economics we checked. We read the full knowledge-and-skills of each social studies course and claim only the standards the catalog genuinely teaches. The surveys of Renaissance/Reformation, the World Wars, the Cold War as a whole, the American political eras, monetary and fiscal policy, market structures, and the many social studies skills sub-standards not listed above are not claimed. The reject list is the evidence the map was not padded.
- English I, III, and IV; and the ELA composition strand as a programme. We mapped English II (§110.37) as the representative course; English I (§110.36), III (§110.38), and IV (§110.39) carry parallel author's-craft, response, and inquiry standards we did not separately transcribe. And the composition strand's sustained writing expectations are met only by the Coffee project — one optional project in one episode — so we claim the argument and research standards as partial, never a full writing programme.
- Health strands beyond health literacy and decision-making. Health I (§115.38) mental- and social-emotional health, healthy eating and physical activity as named content, injury and violence prevention, alcohol/tobacco/other drugs, and reproductive and sexual health were checked and are not genuinely taught by these courses. We claim only the two health-literacy standards and the decision-making standard, all partial.
- Physical Education motor-demonstration outcomes. Every PE outcome that asks a student to DEMONSTRATE or PARTICIPATE in physical activity (competency in target, striking/fielding, fitness, rhythmic, and innovative activities; officiating; skill performance) is out of reach of an online course. We claim only the technology, personal-fitness-planning, consumer-evaluation, and sport-strategy KNOWLEDGE outcomes, and say so on each.
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Don't take the mapping on trust. Open the lesson and check it against the standard. Every course publishes its sources too.