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Grade 3 2-A, 3-3

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Oklahoma Academic Standards: 
3.2 Examine the interaction of the environment and the peoples of Oklahoma.

3.3 The student will analyze the significant events and historic personalities contributing to the development of the state of Oklahoma.

Objectives:

3.2.A. Describe how early American Indians used Oklahoma’s natural resources, such as bison hunting, fur trading, and farming.

3.3  Describe American Indian pre-contact cultures that have inhabited what is now Oklahoma, such as the Spiro Mound Builders.                        

In a Nutshell

The earliest settlers of present-day Oklahoma included the Mississippi moundbuilders culture, an example of which is found at the Spiro Mound. Students should explore how these early cultures lived and traded within a broader region. The objectives also focus on the geographic concept of human-environment-interaction within historical contexts. Students should examine how some of the earliest American Indians utilized our state’s natural resources for survival and trade. 

Teacher Action 

Student Action 

  • Reinforce inquiry skills by asking and responding to various levels of open-ended questions on a regular basis related to the significant achievements of past generations. 

  • Provide routine and frequent opportunities for students to compare two or more primary or secondary sources about the moundbuilders culture in order to examine the impact of early indigenous people. 

  • Identify and describe how humans modify and adapt to their physical environment, using its natural and human resources.

  •  Describe how the movement of resources, people, goods, and ideas move, connecting communities, using historic examples related to trade and agricultural endeavors of early inhabitants of the state. 

  • Describe and offer examples of how people have improved their communities in the past.

Key Concepts 

Misconceptions 

  • moundbuilders, prehistoric, cultures, indigenous peoples

  • pioneers, immigrants, trade, interrelationships between the environment and humans

  • primary versus secondary sources of information

  • Students often assume that all Indian cultures were related to each other, as opposed to understanding that each culture developed its own unique features and characteristics. 

  • Most students will require a very basic explanation of the difference between historic eras and prehistory to understand the advancements of the earliest indigenous peoples in North America. 

Instructional Resources

Access suggested instructional resources correlated to the learning standard and objective.

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