Oklahoma Social Studies 1.P.2.3.A

Social Studies1st GradeSocial Studies Practices

The Standard

1.P.2: Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
1.P.2.3: Demonstrate a mastery of geographic concepts and the use of geographic tools to understand the impact of geography on the past and present.

Answer geographic questions using geographic information about the student’s own community.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 1.P.2.3

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students use maps, photos, or landmarks to answer questions about places in their community. They point to a street, symbol, or nearby building that supports their answer.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can find the school and another place on a local map. They can say where that place is and show what on the map helped them decide.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think map symbols are pictures rather than signs for real places. They may guess where a place is from memory instead of checking the map.
How to Assess It: Give students a simple map showing the school, a park, and a library. Ask, “Which place is closer to the school, and what on the map shows you?”

Lesson moves

Give pairs a printed local map and sticky notes; have them label the school and two nearby places, then trace a route.
Show a photo of a familiar local place and ask, “What clues tell you where this is, and what is nearby?”
Play “Find It” on a local map: name a landmark, then have partners point to it and name a nearby street.
Before a class walk, show a map of the route and ask, “Which landmark will tell us we are close to our stop?”

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