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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.

27
standards mapped
17
fully covered
10
partially covered
6
frameworks

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  • 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.

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Texas · Social Studies

TEKS for Social Studies — United States Government (§113.44)

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 one-semester United States Government course is the culmination of its K-12 civic and governmental content. Its standards are overwhelmingly about the FEDERAL system; two, however — (d)(7)(H) comparing national, state, and local governments and (d)(9)(A) methods of filling offices at all three levels — name state and local government explicitly, and that is where Texas Civics (the flagship, written from Texas's own sources) is mapped, alongside the general civics ladder. Texas's dedicated STATE-government instruction sits in Grade 7 Texas History (§113.20, middle school), which we have not fetched; see notClaimed.

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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.

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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.

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  • §113.42(d)(7)(B)

    Covered
    explain the impact of the Columbian Exchange;

    Covered by

    • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
    • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
    • · Ep 11 · The Triangular Trade
    • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books (the destruction of the Mesoamerican codices)
    • · Ep 15 · From Sacred to Commodity
    • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
    • · Ep 2 · The Tea Plant and Its Climate Zones
    • · Ep 3 · The Big Producers and the Cacao Varieties
    • · Ep 4 · From New Guinea to the New World

    Note: The Columbian Exchange is taught directly through the plants that moved — cacao, sugar, and the exchange of crops among the New World and the Old.

  • §113.42(d)(7)(C)

    Covered
    explain the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on West Africa and the Americas;

    Covered by

    • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
    • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
    • · Ep 11 · The Triangular Trade
    • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books (the destruction of the Mesoamerican codices)
    • · Ep 15 · From Sacred to Commodity
    • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
    • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
    • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
    • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story (Equiano, 1789; Mary Prince, 1831)
    • · 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

    Note: The transatlantic slave trade, the triangular trade, the Middle Passage, and the plantation economies it fed — with first-person accounts by formerly enslaved writers — are taught in depth.

  • §113.42(d)(8)(C)

    Covered
    explain the major characteristics and impact of European imperialism;

    Covered by

    • · 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.

  • §113.42(d)(28)(C)

    Covered
    analyze primary and secondary sources to determine frame of reference, historical context, and point of view;

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story, Beckford (1790) against Equiano (1789) and Mary Prince (1831) on the same plantation world
    • · Ep 3 · Two Ways of Seeing a Bean
    • · Ep 5 · Two Ways of Knowing
    • · Ep 18 · Whose Voice
    • · Ep 10 · The Oral History That Survived (recovering Nathan “Nearest” Green's erased role)
    • · The Great Migration · every lesson carries a primary-source pointer to its real archive
    • · The Great Migration, Lesson 5 · Arrival (the Philadelphia “500% growth” claim, checked against the raw census figures it fails)

    Note: The Whose Voice method is exactly this — a planter's account read against Equiano and Mary Prince, the documentary record read against the oral record that preserved Nathan Green, every Great Migration lesson pointed at its archive.

  • §113.42(d)(6)(A)

    Partially covered
    compare the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations and explain how prior civilizations influenced their development; and

    Covered by

    • · Ep 3 · Food of the Gods (cacao as Maya/Aztec currency and sacrament)
    • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
    • · Ep 12 · The Sacred Plant (Aztec governance of pulque)
    • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books

    What we do and don't cover: Maya and Aztec society is taught through the plants those societies governed (cacao as currency and sacrament; pulque and its Aztec governance), along with the impact of European colonization. The Inca, which the standard also names, are not covered.

  • §113.42(d)(9)(C)

    Partially covered
    trace the influence of the American and French revolutions on Latin America, including the role of Simón Bolivar; and

    Covered by

    • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
    • · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom
    • · Ep 11 · The Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James)

    What we do and don't cover: The Haitian Revolution is taught in depth — directly shaped by the French Revolution — including the 1825 indemnity and its consequences for Haiti today. Simón Bolívar and the broader Latin American independence wars the standard names are not the focus.

Texas · Social Studies

TEKS for Social Studies — United States History Studies Since 1877 (§113.41)

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

United States History Studies Since 1877 is where the catalog's American labor, migration, and civil-rights history maps — the union movement, the Great Migration, the civil-rights era, NAFTA, and Prohibition. Codes are Texas's own TEKS, transcribed verbatim.

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  • §113.41(d)(28)(D)

    Covered
    evaluate a variety of historical and contemporary sources for validity, credibility, bias, and accuracy;

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Reading a Coffee Ad
    • · Ep 2 · Reading a Tea Ad
    • · Ep 3 · Reading a Chocolate Ad
    • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story (reading a text for what it leaves out)
    • · Ep 11 · Tiki and the Tropical Paradise
    • · Ep 15 · The Language of Doubt
    • · Ep 8 · Reading a Craft Beer Label
    • · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
    • · Ep 16 · Reefer Madness and the Language of Fear
    • · Ep 18 · Just Say No
    • · The Great Migration · every lesson carries a primary-source pointer to its real archive
    • · The Great Migration, Lesson 5 · Arrival (the Philadelphia “500% growth” claim, checked against the raw census figures it fails)
    • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
    • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification

    Note: Evaluating sources for bias and reliability is a recurring method — reading ads and campaign language for omission, and turning an unsupported statistic into a limitations-of-evidence lesson.

  • §113.41(d)(10)(E)

    Partially covered
    describe significant societal issues of this time period such as the War on Drugs and the AIDS epidemic.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 18 · Bolivia's Bet (Bolivia's legal coca model against U.S.-funded eradication)
    • · Ep 18 · The Balloon Effect
    • · Ep 17 · Where the Poppy Grows (Afghanistan and the Golden Crescent)
    • · Ep 16 · The Justice Gap

    What we do and don't cover: The War on Drugs, which the standard names, is covered in depth including its foreign-policy arm (Bolivia's coca model against U.S.-funded eradication, the balloon effect). The AIDS epidemic is worked as one HIV outbreak (Scott County, Indiana) rather than the national epidemic.

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.

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Texas · English/Language Arts

TEKS for English Language Arts and Reading — English II (§110.37)

One Credit · Adopted 2017 · amended effective August 1, 2019 (19 TAC ch. 110, subch. C) · Texas Education Agency (TEA) / State Board of Education (SBOE) · retrieved 2026-07-17

Texas writes its own ELA TEKS (English I-IV); the codes are Texas's own, never Common Core. English II (grade 10) is used here as the representative high-school course — its author's-craft, response, and inquiry strands are where the catalog's media literacy, rhetoric, and research work maps. English I, III, and IV carry parallel standards; see notClaimed.

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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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