Oklahoma Social Studies E.P.1.2.B
The Standard
- E.P.1
- Apply critical thinking skills to address authentic civic issues.
- E.P.1.2
- Develop practices which demonstrate an understanding that social studies involves the evaluation of evidence.
Evaluate points of agreement and disagreement from reliable information and expert interpretations used to answer supporting questions related to content knowledge.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · E.P.1.2
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students check who wrote each source and what evidence it uses. They compare expert answers to a focused historical question. They identify a shared claim, a disputed claim, and the evidence behind each.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given two historians’ accounts of the New Deal, a student names one agreement and one disagreement. They quote evidence for each and explain why the sources are trustworthy.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat different wording as a disagreement. They may trust a source because it sounds confident or assume experts must draw the same conclusion from the same data.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Using the two historian excerpts from class, name one shared claim and one disputed claim about the New Deal. Quote a detail that supports each answer.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs an unemployment chart and two attributed historian excerpts; have them underline shared claims and circle conflicting claims.
Ask, “Did the New Deal end the Depression?” Have students write each historian’s answer and quote one line that supports it.
Play “Shared or Disputed”: teams sort claim cards from the two excerpts and defend each placement with a quotation.
Compare a pediatrician’s and a transportation planner’s statements about later school start times; mark one shared goal and one disputed prediction.
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