Oklahoma Social Studies 1.C.2.4
The Standard
- 1.C.2
- Examine how we learn from the important events and people of the past.
Compare ways individuals and groups in the local community and region lived in the past with how they live today (e.g., housing, communication, transportation, occupations).
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 1.C.2
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use old and recent photos or stories to compare homes, travel, communication, and jobs in their community. They name what changed and what stayed the same.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can look at two dated local photos and point out a difference, using a detail in each photo as evidence. They can also name something that stayed the same.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think everyone in the past rode horses or lived in the same kind of home. They may think older ways of traveling or communicating disappeared as soon as new ones appeared.
How to Assess It
- Show an older local street photo with a visible vehicle and a recent photo with a different vehicle. Ask, “How did travel change? Point to a clue in each photo.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs old and recent photos of a local street, and have them mark homes and vehicles with colored sticky notes.
Show photos of an older local home and a newer one; ask, “What changed, and what stayed the same?”
Play a matching game with dated picture cards of local homes and jobs; partners pair past and present examples and explain one change.
Walk past the school bus line, then show a dated local bus photo and ask students what looks different.
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