A Complete Social Studies Support System
Everything Texas middle schools need to build teacher capacity and guide students to subject mastery!
Navigate Texas
Why choose Navigate Texas? Aligned to 100 percent of Social Studies TEKS, this program was made for Texas by Texans. The result is much more than a curriculum. Navigate Texas is a comprehensive, standards-aligned framework for social studies instruction.
Everything you need to succeed—all in one place!
Digital Platform
Home to the Core Curriculum, Assessment, Content Videos, Digital Student Resources, and Skill Builder Chats.
When you choose Navigate Texas, your teachers have the resources they need to excel in their classrooms, and your students have the tools they need to take ownership of their learning.
Print Resources
Designed to be interactive and engaging!
Student Resource Books enable students to actively participate in their learning and organize their thoughts and ideas.
Markable Desk Maps support Tier 1 instruction, remediation, and extension.
Your Core Curriculum
Navigate Texas is built around a 12 Unit Course with 72 Tier 1 Lessons for initial research-based instruction.
36 Review and Reteach Lessons reinforce key vocabulary, critical content, and social studies skills.
36 Active Learning Lessons extend learning through critical thinking, discussion, investigation, and creation.
Lesson plans are designed to build teacher capacity while also supporting autonomy through Teacher Moves.
Assessment Made Easy
Teachers have everything they need at their fingertips to assess student knowledge and skills and prepare them for STAAR.
A robust Assessment Module is built into the platform, making it easy for teachers to build, assign, and auto-score formative and summative assessments.
The 10-Day STAAR Review Course includes 10 TEKS-aligned lesson plans and resources focused on essential content and skills.
40+ Content Videos for All
A win-win, Content Videos for Grades 6–8 enhance teacher instruction and give students an extra layer of support.
The videos align seamlessly with lessons, offering teachers additional insights and helping them deliver a more engaging learning experience.
Clear and visually compelling, the videos illustrate key concepts to help students make meaningful connections, deepen their understanding, and build mastery.
A Personal Tutor for Students
A unique and engaging way for middle schoolers to build essential skills for mastering social studies! Skill Builder Chats are like personal tutors.
With the aid of Chats, students can access the individual help they need to develop geographic literacy, visual- and textual-analysis skills, and disciplinary writing proficiency.
Contemporary World Cultures
Grade 6 students examine people, places, and societies of the contemporary world. Students use reading, writing, and discourse as they explore the geographic, economic, social, and political characteristics and concepts related to the regions of the world.
The course was developed through the lens of decision-making questions. Throughout each unit, students interact with a specific question to acquire new information, consider options, and arrive at their own decisions.
Grade 6 Topics
Unit 1: Introduction to Physical Geography
Unit 2: Introduction to Human Geography
Unit 3: Government and Economic Systems
Unit 4: The United States and Canada
Unit 5: Latin America
Unit 6: Europe
Unit 7: Russia and the Eurasian Republics
Unit 8: Southwest Asia and North Africa
Unit 9: Sub-Saharan Africa
Unit 10: South Asia
Unit 11: East and Southeast Asia
Unit 12: Australia and Oceania
Texas History
Grade 7 students examine Texas history, beginning with "Natural Texas and Its People" through contemporary Texas. Students use reading, writing, and discourse as they explore key concepts, events, and people related to Texas history.
The course was developed through the lens of decision-making questions. Throughout each unit, students interact with a specific question to acquire new information, consider options, and arrive at their own decisions.
Grade 7 Topics
Unit 1: Natural Texas: Physical and Human Geography
Unit 2: Exploration and Early Colonization
Unit 3: Mexican National Era: Colonization and the Empresario System
Unit 4: Texas Revolution
Unit 5: The Republic of Texas and Early Statehood
Unit 6: Civil War and Reconstruction
Unit 7: Texas Government
Unit 8: Cotton, Cattle, Railroads and Westward Expansion
Unit 9: Age of Oil
Unit 10: The Great Depression and WWII
Unit 11: Civil Rights and Conservatism
Unit 12: Contemporary Texas
U.S. History to 1877
Grade 8 students examine U.S. history, beginning with the early Colonial period through Reconstruction. Students use reading, writing, and discourse as they explore key concepts and events related to early U.S. history.
The course was developed through the lens of decision-making questions. Throughout each unit, students interact with a specific question to acquire new information, consider options, and arrive at their own decisions.
Grade 8 Topics
Unit 1: The Meeting of Cultures
Unit 2: The Thirteen Colonies
Unit 3: The Revolutionary Era
Unit 4: Establishing a New Government
Unit 5: The Constitution and Bill of Rights
Unit 6: The Early Republic
Unit 7: Age of Jackson
Unit 8: Westward Expansion and Industrialization
Unit 9: A Changing Society
Unit 10: The Road to War
Unit 11: The Civil War
Unit 12: Reconstruction
