Oklahoma Social Studies AWH.P.2.3.A
The Standard
- AWH.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.
Actively engage in asking and answering geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing multiple sources of data and information about the world’s past and present.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · AWH.P.2.3
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students ask a question about how a place has changed over time. They gather maps, images, and data, organize them by date and location, and use more than one source to answer.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can ask why the Aral Sea shrank and support an answer with shoreline images and a river diversion map. They check each source's date and map key, and say what the sources cannot show.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may compare maps with different scales as if they match exactly. They may treat one striking image as proof of a cause, even though it only shows a change.
How to Assess It
- Give students 1973 and 2020 Aral Sea images and a river diversion map. Ask: "What question can these sources answer? Use two sources to support your answer, then name one thing you still need to know."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed 1973 and 2020 Aral Sea images and a river diversion map; have them trace shorelines and mark diverted rivers.
Post a river diversion map and rainfall graph. Ask, "Which source better explains the sea's shrinking, and what can't either source tell us?"
Run an evidence sort: groups place dated shoreline images, a rainfall graph, and a diversion map under questions each source can help answer.
Compare Google Earth Timelapse frames of your town with census counts; students write one question and a two-source answer about land use.
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