Oklahoma Social Studies 3.C.4.2.B
The Standard
- 3.C.4
- Identify and describe basic economic activities creating prosperity for the state.
- 3.C.4.2
- Examine how entrepreneurs have contributed to the state’s economy.
Describe how notable Oklahoma entrepreneurs (e.g., Gordon and May Lillie, O.W. Gurley, Frank Philips, Tom and Judy Love, Bill Braum) used their labor, land, and capital to build businesses and make a difference in their communities and the state.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 3.C.4.2
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students describe how Oklahoma business owners used their work, land, and money or equipment to build businesses. They explain how those businesses changed their communities and the state.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify O.W. Gurley's Greenwood lots as land, buildings as capital, and managing rentals as labor. They can explain how renting space helped Black-owned businesses open in Greenwood.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think land only means farmland, not a city lot. They may call a building land rather than capital, or think a business owner did all the work alone.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: O.W. Gurley bought Tulsa land and rented space to Black business owners. Name his land, one kind of labor or capital he needed, and one way Greenwood benefited.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs lot, building, and work-hour cards; have them model how O.W. Gurley ran a Greenwood boarding house.
Read a card about Gurley renting Greenwood property to Black business owners; ask, 'How could those shops help their neighbors?'
Play a three-column card sort using a city lot, shopkeeper's hours, gasoline pumps, a cash register, and an oil field.
Show a photo of a Love's travel stop; students label the site, workers, and pumps, then name one service it gives travelers.
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- 3.C.4.3
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