Oklahoma Social Studies 4.P.4.2

4.P.4.2 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 4.P.4.2.A

  Formulate a viable research question related to expanding knowledge of social studies concepts.

• 4.P.4.2.B

  Organize information from research, quoting accurately from the source and avoiding plagiarism.

• 4.P.4.2.C

  Create presentations or products which summarize research findings from two or more sources.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students ask a focused question about a social studies topic, then use two or more sources to answer it. They organize what they find, write mostly in their own words, and mark exact quotes with quotation marks and source names.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can answer a question such as, “Why did Oklahoma move its capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City?” Their short report uses facts from two named sources and quotes one source exactly.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may ask a question too broad to answer, such as “What is Oklahoma history?” They may treat two pages from one website as two independent sources, or copy a sentence without quotation marks.

04

How to Assess It

Give students two short, labeled excerpts about the 1910 capital vote. Ask them to answer why the capital moved in three sentences, using both excerpts, one exact quote, and both source titles.

1. 01

   Give pairs two printed sources about the capital move and sentence strips to sort into useful evidence, background facts, and unsupported claims.

2. 02

   Ask students to write one question about the capital move, then explain to a partner whether two short sources could answer it.

3. 03

   Play a quote-check game: show a source sentence and three student versions, then have teams identify the correctly quoted and credited version.

4. 04

   Have students use a local museum page and a library book to make a one-page guide answering a question about their town.

• 7.P.4.2

  The 7th Grade version of this standard.

• 6.P.4.2

  The 6th Grade version of this standard.

• 3.P.4.2

  The 3rd Grade version of this standard.

• 8.P.4.2

  The 8th Grade version of this standard.