Oklahoma Social Studies 2.P.2.3.B
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.
Describe the community and state’s human and physical environment by creating and using maps, graphs, and other geographic models, including aerial photography.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 2.P.2.3
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use maps and aerial photos to find roads, buildings, rivers, and other features in their community and Oklahoma. They draw a labeled map and use a graph to compare features they count.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can mark a road and a natural feature on an aerial photo, then show both on a map with a key. They can make a bar graph from their counts and tell what each bar shows. They can find a town and a river on an Oklahoma map.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call a road a natural feature or a river a human-made feature. They may expect an aerial photo to show buildings from the side. Their graph bars may not match what they counted.
How to Assess It
- Give students a cropped aerial photo of the school area. Ask them to count buildings and trees, draw a two-bar graph, and label which feature people built.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Lay tracing paper over a school-area aerial photo; mark buildings and trees, draw a map key, then graph how many of each appear.
Show an aerial photo and street map of the same place. Ask, 'What can you find on both?'
Give pairs Oklahoma map cards showing rivers, towns, and roads; have them sort the cards into natural and human-made features.
Use a local map to plan a route from school to the library, marking streets and any trees along the way.
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Related Standards
- 1.P.2.3.B
Identify and describe the community’s human and physical environment through the use and creation of simple maps and photographs of the community.
- K.P.2.3.B
Identify and describe the community’s human and physical environment through the use and creation of simple maps and photographs of the community.
- 3.P.2.3.B
The 3rd Grade version of this standard.
- 3.C.2.1
Use maps, graphs, photographs, charts, and geographic technology to organize information about people, places, and environments of the state.
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