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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
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Description: Students will gather information on a selected state, province, or country to better understand the relationship of the countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Bob Harrelson
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Description: Students will understand that water diverted for irrigation or other purposes can have a direct impact on the environment, including environments that cross international boundaries.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL, CC Produced By: Janet Hall
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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
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Description: Students will discover how human interaction almost drove the sea turtles of the Gulf of Mexico into extinction as well as what is being done to reestablish the turtle population today.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Bob Harrelson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Description: Students will research a designated country using the five themes of geography and create a travel itinerary for Latin America.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Description: In this unit, students will investigate and then interpret the twelve regions of Canada and the United States. Students should gain a firm comprehension of regions in North America (north of Mexico) and be able to apply the information to a five paragraph essay and a visual display.
Grade level(s): Middle and High School Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
