Oklahoma Social Studies 3.P.2.3.B
The Standard
- 3.P.2
- Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
- 3.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) · 3.P.2.3
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use maps, graphs, and aerial photos to describe their community and Oklahoma. They identify natural features, such as rivers, and built features, such as roads and towns.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can point out a river, road, or town on a map or aerial photo and say whether people built it. They can make a simple graph of features they found and use it to compare places.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think a lake is built because it sits near houses, or that a park is entirely natural. They may also read an aerial photo as a view from the ground rather than from above.
How to Assess It
- Give students an aerial photo of the school area. Ask them to mark four features, label each as natural or built, and make a two-bar graph showing how many of each they found.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs an aerial photo of the school area; have them trace roads and trees on clear plastic and make a map key.
Show a map of Oklahoma with rivers and towns; ask, “Why might people build a town near this river?”
Have pairs find rivers, cities, and highways on an Oklahoma map for two minutes, then graph how many they found.
Use a map of the walk from school to a nearby park; have students mark roads, buildings, and trees they would pass.
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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.
- 2.P.2.3.B
The 2nd 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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