Oklahoma Social Studies 2.P.2.3.A

Social Studies2nd GradeSocial Studies Practices

The Standard

2.P.2: Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
2.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.

Ask and answer geographic questions, using geographic information about the student’s community and state.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 2.P.2.3

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students use maps to find places in their community and Oklahoma. They make up location questions, then use map labels, symbols, and directions to answer them.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can use a neighborhood map to find a park near the school. They can locate their community on an Oklahoma map and describe where it is compared with another city.
Common Misconceptions: Students may assume the top of every map is north, even when the compass rose shows otherwise. They may expect a state map to show their school or think a map symbol shows a place’s actual size.
How to Assess It: Give students a community map and an Oklahoma map marked with their town. Ask them to write one location question about each map, answer both, and circle the map clues they used.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a printed neighborhood map and sticky notes; have them label the school and two nearby places.
Ask, “How can you tell where our town sits in Oklahoma?” Have partners point to the map labels they used.
Students write location questions about an Oklahoma map, swap cards, and answer using map labels and a compass rose.
Project a street map showing the school and a nearby public place; students trace a route and name one road.

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