Gridiron Geography - 2015

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Description: Using the Big 12 Football schedule as a guide, your students will learn about the geographical and historical significance surrounding the participating teams' campuses, home cities or towns, home states, mascots, players, and more!

Grade level(s): Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL
Produced By: Ann Kennedy, Joseph Rohr, Ginny Rohr, Rob Miles, Jeffery M. Widener, Heather Braucher, Annie Elsberry, Denise Aguilar, and Marilyn Pineda.

Gridiron Geography - 2014

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Description: Using the Big 12 Football schedule as a guide, your students will learn about the geographical and historical significance surrounding the participating teams' campuses, home cities or towns, home states, mascots, players, and more!

Grade level(s): Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Standards: GFL
Produced By: Annie Elsberry, Jeffery M. Widener, Janet Hall, Joseph Rohr, Ginny Rohr, Rob Miles, Bill Amburn, and Marilyn Pineda.

Two Bits for Our National Parks

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Description: Students will gain knowledge of the National Park system and its diversity across our nation.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Bob Harrelson

Transportation in the News

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Description: Students see transportation all around them but do not know geographic and historic background about the development of types of transportation. Students will gain geographic and historic perspectives about transportation as they explore American ingenuity that overcame geographic and economic issues in history.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Bill Amburn

The Push-Pull Factor Getting to the Bottom of It

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Description: The goal of this lesson is for students to identify the main groups of immigrants to the United States from 1820-1920, and the push-pull factors associated with these immigrant groups.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Teresa Potter

It's History Time!

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Description: Students will learn details about specific United States historical events and place them in the correct sequence on a timeline.

 Grade level(s): Middle, High School         Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson

Laboring for Economic Justice

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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to compare and contrast the organized labor movement in United States history with Oklahoma’s labor history.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Ann Kennedy

MVP Award

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Description: Students will create awards for the most memorable people and places in American history and justify the honor by writing fact-based arguments. 

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Heather Braucher

Cattle Drives and Westward Expansion

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Description: This lesson will give the students an understanding of the purpose and location of the cattle drives and how they influenced Westward Expansion.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson

From Sodom to the Promise Land: The Exodusters

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Description: Students will identify and describe migration of African Americans following the Civil War from the Southern States westward, particularly the Exoduster Movement, and its effect on the settlement of African American settlements in what is now the State of Oklahoma. 

 Grade level(s): Middle                     Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Shirley Nero

Manifest Destiny According to Fakebook

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Description: Manifest Destiny was an extremely powerful idea in the 19th century United States. The essence of Manifest Destiny was that North America was intended by God to be populated and governed by Anglo-Saxon Americans. This meant that the spread of United States democracy and industry was part of the Divine plan. Of course, there were other people on the North American continent who disagreed with this notion. In this lesson students will explore the idea of Manifest Destiny.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Jenea Midgett

What is Landscape?

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Description: Students will learn the differences and provide examples of physical, cultural, economic and historical landscapes.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Ann Kennedy

Erie Canal News

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Description: The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the Erie Canal by reporting news on "TV" with their peers. 

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Bill Amburn

Coal Mining in Indian Territory (Oklahoma)

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Description: Students will learn about coal mining in Oklahoma.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Ann Kennedy

A Sense of Place in America: 1865 - 1900

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Description: Students will create a sense of place for an area in the United States after examining life during and after post-Civil War and Reconstruction in the northeast urban, southern rural and western territory regions.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Heather Braucher

The Transportation of Human Resources

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Description: Humans as resources have existed in North America since Pre-Columbian times. The ability for one group of humans to acquire another as slaves required transportation and the cost of transportation was part of the cost of the human resource. The economic value of human resources has fluctuated throughout the centuries depending on their purpose and availability.

 Grade level(s): Middle, High School         Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Jayne Marley

The History of Gold in the United States: The Race to Discover This Valuable Resource

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Description: Students will discover the different types of resources available to humans on earth. In turn, students will identify and analyze the importance of the resource GOLD in American and Oklahoma History. They will locate three specific “Gold events” on a U.S. map and examine each event by determining its effect on the exploration and expansionism of the United States.

  Grade level(s): High School, Middle        Standards: OAS, GFL              Produced By: Denise Aguilar

Historic Barriers to Transportation and Progress

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Description: Throughout history people have had to overcome problems with transportation before real progress could be made. Exploration, jobs, trade, communication, and adaptation to the environment were all challenges to people throughout history with transportation being the key to each. The purpose of this lesson is to investigate the impact that environmental barriers to transportation have had on people including human invention.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Bill Amburn

Jerusalem: A Center of Peace or Conflict

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Description: Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, is considered a holy city by three religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. For centuries it has also been a spiritual center. Just like the dove, it is associated with peace and its name is even thought to be derived from the phrase “of peace.” Students will identify Jerusalem’s religious significance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. They will also learn about the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and explore what it is like for people on both sides of the conflict.

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL             Produced By: Teresa Potter

Let's Walk With "Jim Crow"

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Description: The goal of this lesson is to introduce the students to the Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws of the South and Oklahoma, and the effect the codes and laws had on the development of the civil rights of African Americans in these regions.

**This lesson was published on January 15, 2014, prior to the passing of HB 1775. Because of the nature of dealing with controversial subjects and issues in the classroom and the challenges they raise, including racial stereotypes in language, illustrations, audio, and video records, the teacher must establish clear ground rules about what will and will not be permitted in terms of arguments and rhetoric, and must be prepared to enforce those rules with appropriate consequences if students ignore these rules.**

 Grade level(s): Middle and High School   Standards: OAS, GFL               Produced By: Shirley Nero