Oklahoma Social Studies OKH.C.7.1
The Standard
- OKH.C.7
- Examine the challenges and accomplishments of Oklahomans as they encountered periods of economic depression and engagement in world conflict.
Identify local and national economic conditions which contributed to the Great Depression and were characterized by mass unemployment and human suffering.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · OKH.C.7
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify economic troubles in Oklahoma and across the country during the Great Depression. They explain how falling farm income, bank failures, and business cutbacks led to lost jobs and hardship.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name falling crop prices and farm debt in Oklahoma, then connect nationwide bank failures to business closures and layoffs. They can explain how a family might lose income and struggle to buy food.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may say the stock market crash was the only cause. They may also say the Dust Bowl caused the Depression nationwide, rather than making hardship worse for many Oklahoma families.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: An Oklahoma farmer cannot pay a loan after wheat prices fall, while banks close across the country. Name one local and one national problem, then explain how one could leave people without work or food.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs 10 wheat tokens and a $10 loan card; drop wheat's sale price from $2 to 50 cents and calculate unpaid debt.
Ask: How could falling wheat prices in Oklahoma and bank closures nationwide leave one family without food or work?
Sort cards labeled farm debt, falling wheat prices, stock speculation, bank failures, layoffs, and soup lines into Oklahoma causes, national causes, or effects.
Show a current wheat price chart and ask how a price drop could affect a farmer's ability to pay a tractor loan.
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