Oklahoma Social Studies OKH.C.7.3.B
The Standard
- OKH.C.7
- Examine the challenges and accomplishments of Oklahomans as they encountered periods of economic depression and engagement in world conflict.
- OKH.C.7.3
- Examine the effects of the Great Depression on Oklahomans and evaluate the effectiveness of governmental response.
Describe New Deal programs and projects (e.g., Agricultural Adjustment Act, Tennessee Valley Authority, Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps) which addressed specific needs of Oklahomans in both employment and the conservation of natural resources.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · OKH.C.7.3
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how New Deal programs provided jobs, supported farms, and protected land in Oklahoma. They identify which programs worked in Oklahoma and where TVA projects took place.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can match AAA with crop payments, WPA with public jobs, and CCC with park and soil work. They can explain that TVA built dams and power projects in the Tennessee Valley, not Oklahoma.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume TVA built dams in Oklahoma. They may also think AAA payments reached tenant farmers equally or that every public job project protected natural resources.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: An Oklahoma town needs jobs building a school, and nearby farmland needs erosion control. Name a New Deal program for each need, explain your choices, and say whether TVA built dams in Oklahoma.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Hand pairs four program cards and maps of Oklahoma and the Tennessee Valley; have them mark each program's location and purpose.
Ask, 'Who gained from AAA crop payments, and who might lose work when farms planted less cotton?' Have students write two sentences.
Match cards labeled school jobs, erosion control, and crop payments with WPA, CCC, and AAA; require one reason for each match.
Use an Oklahoma state park map to locate Roman Nose, then ask how its CCC construction jobs still benefit visitors.
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