Oklahoma Social Studies OKH.C.6.5
The Standard
- OKH.C.6
- Examine Oklahoma’s political, economic, and social history regarding race during the early decades following statehood.
Examine how agricultural conditions and practices were precursors to the Great Depression by describing the boom-and-bust cycle of Oklahoma’s agricultural output to meet the needs of World War I followed by post-war overproduction.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · OKH.C.6
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how World War I demand led Oklahoma farmers to grow more crops. They explain why continued production after the war created surpluses, lowered prices, and left many farmers in debt before the Great Depression.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can put wartime demand, expanded planting, falling postwar demand, and lower crop prices in order. They can explain why a farmer might harvest more wheat but earn less money.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume a bigger harvest always means more profit. Some confuse the earlier farm slump with the Dust Bowl or think the 1929 stock market crash started farmers’ troubles.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: “An Oklahoma farmer grows more wheat in 1922 than in 1918 but earns less money. Explain why in two sentences.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Hand pairs 10 beans at $2 each, then 15 at 50 cents each, and have them compare earnings against a $10 loan payment.
Have students write two sentences explaining why an Oklahoma farmer might harvest more wheat after the war yet earn less money.
Have teams order cards marked wartime demand, high crop prices, expanded planting, postwar demand drop, surplus, and falling prices.
Use a current wheat price from a local grain elevator website to calculate income from 100 bushels, then repeat at half the price.
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