Oklahoma Social Studies E.P.2.3.A
The Standard
- E.P.2
- Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
- E.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) · E.P.2.3
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students ask questions about where things are and how places have changed. They find maps, photos, and data from different dates, sort them by place and time, and use the sources to answer.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can ask where a city grew, then compare two dated maps with population figures in an evidence table. They support an answer with two sources and separate what the data shows from a guess about why.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat a map as proof of why a neighborhood changed. They may compare maps with different scales as if they cover the same area. They may ignore a data table that challenges what they see in a photo.
How to Assess It
- Give students two dated maps of one city and a population table. Ask: 'Write a question about how this place changed, then answer it with evidence from two sources.'
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two dated city maps and population figures; have them mark changes on tracing paper and log the evidence by year.
Ask, 'Did the new highway change where people live?' Have students compare dated maps and census figures, then defend a cautious answer.
Put dated map, photo, and census cards at stations; teams match each source to a question and explain what evidence it offers.
Have students plot past flood locations on a current street map and write one question a renter should ask about a nearby apartment.
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