Oklahoma Social Studies WG.C.1

WG.C.1 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• WG.C.1.1

  Analyze key concepts underlying the geographical perspectives of location, space, place, scale, pattern, regionalization, and globalization.

• WG.C.1.2

  Utilize geographic skills to understand and analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on the Earth’s surface.

• WG.C.1.3

  Define regions and analyze changing interconnections among places, using historical and contemporary examples.

• WG.C.1.4

  Utilize geographic technologies and geographical data including census data and imagery to draw conclusions about the influence of geography on the world’s peop...

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What Students Need to Do

Students use maps, satellite images, and census data to find patterns in where people live. They compare places at different map scales, draw region boundaries, and explain how connections between places change over time.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given population maps from two years, a student can point to an area of growth and use other map details to suggest why it grew. They can defend a region boundary and explain how a new road or trade link changed ties between places.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may treat region boundaries as fixed or assume nearby places are always closely connected. They may use a county total to describe every neighborhood, or mistake a pattern on a map for proof of its cause.

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How to Assess It

Give students two dated census population maps and a highway map. Ask them to circle an area of growth, explain how roads may have shaped it, and draw a region boundary with one reason.

1. 01

   Place tracing paper over printed population and road maps; have students trace settlement clusters and circle roads that connect them.

2. 02

   Compare a 1950 highway map with a current one; ask students to write how new roads might change a town's ties to its neighbors.

3. 03

   Give pairs a city map and a world map; have them race to choose which answers 'Where is the hospital?' or 'Where is Ghana?'

4. 04

   Use a local census population map and road map to choose a site for a new public clinic, then justify it with two mapped facts.

• 4.C.2.1.B

  Use maps and other geographic representations (e.g., globes, charts, graphs) and geographic technologies to draw conclusions (e.g., settlement patterns, populat...

• 4.C.2.1

  Use geographic tools to acquire and process information from a spatial perspective.

• 7.C.1

  Analyze data from a geographic perspective using the skills and tools of geography.