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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: 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 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: 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
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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
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Description: Students will discover the important role water has played in American History. They will discover how water played an essential role in determining the shape of our state and country by analyzing specific events throughout U.S. History.
Grade level(s): Middle and High School Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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Description: This lesson will give the students an understanding of why major cities developed along the Fall Line of the Atlantic Coastal Region of the United States.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL, CC Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson
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Description: Students will gain an understanding of the cultural, political and economic features of the United States and apply the knowledge to analyze problems and propose solutions created by human environment interaction.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
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Description: Lawmakers have to make decisions about the use of resources that affect their citizens today and in the future. Deciding how to use the nation’s resources is not an easy process when two values are at odds: preserving natural resources and delicate ecosystems or protecting the economy. This was the dilemma for lawmakers when environmentalists fought to preserve Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge while opposed by oil companies who wanted to drill there for oil.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Ann Kennedy
Description: Students will located and label the locations of the NFL teams on a map of the United States. Students will examine the geographical and historical significance of the mascot and stadium names for each professional team. Students will analyze the climates of the locations of the teams and determine why teams may have been placed in those locations.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aguilar
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Description: Students will gain a better understanding of drainage basins, water scarcity, ecosystem balance, and consequences produced by population growth. Students will examine river basins and human impact on the environment in order to construct solutions.
Grade level(s): Middle 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.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Lee Ann Harrelson
