Oklahoma Story (3rd grade)

• Classroom PowerPoints®—NEW
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  Select chapter. File will automatically download onto your computer. Please look for it in your downloads folder.

  • What Is History? PPT
  • Chapter 1 PPT
  • Chapter 2 PPT
  • Chapter 3 PPT
  • Chapter 4 PPT
  • Chapter 5 PPT
  • Chapter 6 PPT
  • Chapter 7 PPT
  • Chapter 8 PPT
  • Chapter 9 PPT
• ELL/Modified Chapter Guide
  Abstract:

  The Oklahoma Story ELL/Modified Chapter Guide supplements the Teacher Guide with simplified lessons for English Language Learners and can also be used for streamlining lessons when time is short. For each chapter in the Student Edition, an ELL Teaching Tip, an introductory chapter activity, an activity for each lesson, illustrated word cards, a Quick Tour of the chapter, an activity page, an assessment, and answers are provided

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• Resource Links—NEW
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  Chapter 1: The Land We Call Home

  ARM Climate Research Facility—Oklahoma Soil Texture Map

  www.xdc.arm.gov/data_viewers/sgp_surfchar/Oklasoil_new.html

  Environmental Protection Agency—Maps of Ecoregions

  www.epa.gov/wed/pages/ecoregions.htm

  Living a Greener Life

  www.livingagreenerlife.com/green-info-for-kids.html

  The Nature Conservancy—Tallgrass Prairie Preserve

  www.nature.org

  Netstate—Geography of Oklahoma

  www.netstate.com/states/geography/ok_geography.htm

  Oklahoma Climatological Survey

  climate.ok.gov/index.php/site/page/climate_of_oklahoma

  Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

  www.wildlifedepartment.com/

  Oklahoma State Icons

  www.state.ok.us/osfdocs/stinfo.html

  Oklahoma State—Learn about Oklahoma

  www.ok.gov/kids/Learn_About_Oklahoma/

  Oklahoma State Parks

  www.travelok.com/state_parks

  Water Encyclopedia—Ogallala Aquifer

  www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Ogallala-Aquifer.html

  Web Atlas of Oklahoma

  www.okatlas.org/okatlas/cover.htm

  WorldAtlas.com

  www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/imageg.htm

  Chapter 2: The First Oklahomans

  Dig: The Archaeology Magazine for Kids

  www.digonsite.com/

  First People—The Legends

  www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/Legends-AB.html

  KidsGardening—Creating a Three Sisters Garden

  www.kidsgardening.org/classroom-projects/creating-three-sisters-garden

  Native Languages of the Americas—Native American Tribes of Oklahoma

  www.native-languages.org/oklahoma.htm

  Oklahoma Anthropological Society

  www.ou.edu/cas/archsur/oas/newslink.htm

  www.ou.edu/cas/archsur/oas/index.html

  Panhandle Pueblo Culture

  www.texasbeyondhistory.net/villagers/research/culture.html

  Tracking the Buffalo

  americanhistory.si.edu/buffalo/?CFID=15101127&CFTOKEN=28278529

  Chapter 3: The Great Encounter

  Enchanted Learning—American Explorers

  www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/namerica.shtml

  Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture

  digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/

  The Fur Trader

  www.thefurtrapper.com/

  The Mariner’s Museum—Exploration through the Ages

  ageofex.marinersmuseum.org/

  Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge—Just 4 Kids

  www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/oklahoma/saltplains/just4kids.html

  Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab—US Historic Settlement Patterns, 1790–2000

  www.over-land.com/diaries.html

  Chapter 4: Indian Territory

  150 Oklahoma Civil War History Sesquicentennial

  www.okcivilwar.org/cwhistory

  Cherokee Heritage Center (Park Hill, OK)

  www.cherokeeheritage.org/

  Cherokee Nation—Sequoyah and the Cherokee Syllabary

  www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/Facts/24483/Information.aspx

  First People—Agreements and Treaties

  www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Treaties/Treaties.html

  Five Civilized Tribes Museum (Muskogee, OK)

  www.fivetribes.org/

  Five Tribes—Official Websites

  • Cherokee: www.cherokee.org
  • Chickasaw: www.chickasaw.net
  • Choctaw: www.choctawnation.com
  • Muskogee/Creek: www.muskogeenation-nsn.gov
  • Seminole: sno_nsn.gov

  George Catlin: The Complete Works

  www.georgecatlin.org/

  Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

  digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/index.htm

  Indian Removal (PBS)

  www.pbs.org/kcet/andrewjackson/themes/indian_removal.html

  Native Languages of the Americas

  www.native-languages.org/

  Native Languages of the Americas—Native American Tribes of Oklahoma

  • www.native-languages.org/oklahoma.htm
  • www.native-languages.org/kids.htm

  NewsOK—“Oklahoma Has Large Share of Civil War History”

  newsok.com/oklahoma-has-large-share-of-civil-war-history/article/3432332

  Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwich Gallery—George Catlin and His Indian Gallery

  americanart.si.edu/

  Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History—Kiowa Drawings

  www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/kiowa/kiowa.htm

  Sequoyah Research Center—Family Stories from the Trail of Tears

  www.anpa.ualr.edu/

  Trail of Tears Association—The Story

  www.nationaltota.org/the-story/

  Voices Across Time: American History Through Music

  www.library.pitt.edu/voicesacrosstime/index.html

  University of Oklahoma Western History Collections—Indian–Pioneer Papers Collection

  digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/pioneer/

  Chapter 5: From Cattle Drives to Homesteads

  Soddies, Dug-Outs, and Claim Houses

  www.edmondhistory.org/edmond-history/soddies-dug-outs-and-claim-houses

  The Oklahoma Territorial Museum

  www.okterritorialmuseum.org/index.html

  The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

  www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/

  Pioneer Life in Early Oklahoma

  urbane-chaos.hubpages.com/hub/OklahomaHistoryPioneerLife

  Indian-Pioneer Papers Collection

  digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/pioneer/

  Chapter 6: From a Territory to a State

  Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Shows

  www.bbhc.org/learn/western-essays/wild-west-shows/

  Wild West Shows and Performers

  digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/W/WI010.html

  Oklahoma Statehood

  www.archives.gov/legislative/features/oklahoma/

  Oklahoma Land Lottery

  digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v009/v009p365.html

  Cotton-Eyed Joe

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWDoxwDBdu8

  The Mayo Hotel

  www.tulsanow.org/2009/05/tour-mayo-hotel.asp

  Chapter 7: The First 100 Years

  The Dust Bowl

  weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedia/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html

  Oklahoma Route 66 Association

  oklahomaroute66.com/

  War of the Worlds Broadcast

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf6omuz1MrM

  Choctaw Dictionary

  www.native-languages.org/choctaw.htm

  Tulsa Race Riot

  www.tulsareparations.org/Eyewitness.htm

  Woody Guthrie

  woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Lyrics.htm

  Indian Pioneer Papers

  www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okmurray/indianpioneerpapers.htm

  Scrap Metal Drives

  • www.flickr.com/photos/howard33/1387076170/
  • www.ndstudies.org/articles/the_home_front_around_the_state

  Duck and Cover

  archive.org/details/gov.ntis.ava11109vnb1

  Vietnam War Memorial

  www.cantho-rvn.org/VN_Mem/Statetwn/ok.htm

  Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/space/moonlanding.html

  Oklahoma City National Memorial

  www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/secondary.php?section=2

  Five Ballerinas

  ndepth.newsok.com/five-indian-ballerinas

  Tornado Tragedy

  newsok.com/may3

  Chapter 8: Government for All of Us

  Bill of Rights

  www.ratical.org/co-globalize/BillOfRights.html

  Oklahoma Constitution

  oklegal.onenet.net/okcon/index.html

  Oklahoma State Legislature

  www.oklegislature.gov/

  Voting

  kidsvotingusa.org/

  Congress for Kids

  congressforkids.net

  Oklahoma History Center

  www.okhistory.org/historycenter/

  Chapter 9: Understanding Our Economy

  Budgeting for Kids

  pbskids.org/itsmylife/money/managing/article6.html

  MKARNS

  www.swl.usace.army.mil/navigation/mckarns.html

  Supply and Demand

  www.realtrees4kids.org/ninetwelve/supply.htm

  Oklahoma Industries

  www.city-data.com/us-cities/The-South/Oklahoma-City-Economy.html

  Oklahoma Tourism

  www.travelok.com/

• State Standards, Correlation, and Pacing Guides
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  • OK State Standards, Correlation, and Pacing Guides
• Student Edition—Audio Reader Now Available
  Abstract:

  The Oklahoma Story is a third grade textbook program that meets the 2012 Oklahoma C³ Standards for the Social Studies as well as the Common Core Literacy Standards in Social Studies. The student textbook covers the history of Oklahoma from prehistoric times to the present, and includes content on the state's geography and economy.

• Student Guide
• Teacher Guide
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  The Oklahoma Story Teacher Guide supports the Student Edition with multiple lesson activities focused on social studies, reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, online research, and cross-curricular topics. It also includes resource lists for each lesson, thumbnails of accompanying Student Guide pages, chapter assessments, an answer key, and a set of Teacher Tools (maps, graphic organizers, and lesson support). The program is designed to support state standards as well as common core standards.

• Test Bank—Interactive!
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  Welcome to the fully interactive and customizable test bank for your program from Gibbs Smith Education!

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