Oklahoma Social Studies 3.C.3.2.C
The Standard
- 3.C.3
- Analyze the significant historical events and people contributing to the development of Oklahoma.
- 3.C.3.2
- Describe the development of the state and its resources.
Explain how many African Americans migrated to Oklahoma, considering it an opportunity where farming communities, businesses, and schools could grow (e.g., historic Black towns, Tulsa’s Greenwood District).
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 3.C.3.2
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why many African Americans moved to Oklahoma for land, work, and the chance to build communities. They describe how farms, businesses, and schools grew in places like Boley and Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why a family might farm near Boley or open a shop in Greenwood. They can tell how a school would help families who settled there.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Greenwood was a separate town, rather than a Tulsa neighborhood. They may assume everyone who moved to Oklahoma farmed, or that families no longer faced racism there.
How to Assess It
- Give students two cards: “Boley: farms and a school” and “Greenwood: Black-owned shops.” Ask them to choose one place and write why a family might move there and what they could help build.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs an Oklahoma map and farm, school, and shop picture cards; have them place the cards near Boley or Greenwood and explain their choices.
Show a photo of Greenwood storefronts and ask, “What jobs might these shops offer to families moving to Tulsa?”
Play a card match with Boley farm, Boley school, and Greenwood shop; students pair each with farming, learning, or business.
Mark a school and two shops on a map of your town, then write why these places might draw a new family.
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Related Standards
- OKH.C.3.3
Analyze the influence of the idea of Manifest Destiny on migrations into present-day Oklahoma.
- OKH.C.8.6.A
Describe migrations of recent cultural and ethnic groups to Oklahoma and their impact on the social and economic transformation of the modern state.
- OKH.C.6.3
Examine the evolution of race relations in Oklahoma.
- OKH.C.6.3.C
Describe the continued growth of African American communities, including the emergence of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa’s Greenwood District
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