Oklahoma Social Studies 2.C.2.6

2.C.2.6 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 2.C.2.6.A

  Leadership (e.g., Abraham Lincoln, Chief Joseph, Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez)

• 2.C.2.6.B

  Military Service (e.g., Davy Crockett, General Dwight Eisenhower, General Colin Powell)

• 2.C.2.6.C

  Science and Technology (e.g., Orville and Wilbur Wright, Jonas Salk, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong)

• 2.C.2.6.D

  Public Service (e.g., Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Theodore Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune).

01

What Students Need to Do

Students read short biographies to find what each person did and who benefited. They explain how those actions helped people in the United States. They use facts from the biographies to show courage or service.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can describe how Rosa Parks challenged an unfair bus rule and how Jonas Salk's polio vaccine helped protect people. They can point to a fact in each biography and explain who benefited.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may say Rosa Parks ended segregation by herself, rather than describing her role in a larger movement. They may name Jonas Salk as a doctor without explaining how his vaccine helped people. Some think serving the country only means joining the military.

04

How to Assess It

Hand out short biographies of Rosa Parks and Jonas Salk. Ask students to name one action each person took, who it helped, and one detail that shows courage or service.

1. 01

   Give pairs printed biographies of Rosa Parks and Jonas Salk; have them mark each person's action and add its effect to a sticky-note chart.

2. 02

   Ask students to write how Rosa Parks and Jonas Salk helped people in different ways, using one fact from each biography.

3. 03

   Play a card match using names, actions, and people helped from short biographies of Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, and Jonas Salk.

4. 04

   Show a Red Cross blood drive flyer and ask students how Clara Barton's work and today's blood donations help people.

• AWH.P.2.1.A

  Evaluate various significant documents from the United States of America and other nations to compare civic virtues and principles of political systems.

• TOT.P.2.1.A

  Evaluate various significant documents from the United States of America and other nations to compare civic virtues and principles of political systems.

• 1.C.1.6

  Using biographies from early United States of America’s history, explain historical examples of patriotism and civic virtue as exemplified during the early Amer...

• 2.C.4.8

  Use biographies of American inventors and entrepreneurs, explaining how their ideas and work helped the nation grow (e.g., George Washington Carver, John Deere,...