Transcript What is the natural vegetation in southeast

Oklahoma Priority Academic Student Skills
Grade 4 Social Studies
2.1 – Interpret geographic information using primary and secondary
sources, atlases, charts, graphs, and visual images.
4.3 – Describe how people attempt to resolve geographic challenges (e.g.,
bridges, dams, tunnels, irrigation systems, and landfills.)
Grade 5 Social Studies
7.1 – Identify, evaluate and draw conclusions from different kinds of
maps, graphs, charts, and other sources, such as aerial and shuttle
photographs, satellite-produced images, (Encyclopedias, almanacs,
dictionaries, atlases, and computer-based technologies: and use maps
of locales, regions, and the world that demonstrate an understanding
of mental mapping, relative location, direction, latitude, longitude,
legend, map symbols, scale, shape, size landforms.
7.2 – Evaluate how the physical environment affects humans and how
humans modify their physical environment.
Objectives
Students will learn to read and interpret a Landsat satellite image of
the southeast Oklahoma landscape.
Students will use an Oklahoma road map along with a Landsat satellite
image of southeast Oklahoma to locate the human and physical
characteristics, such as lakes, natural vegetation, county boundaries,
farm land and buildings.
Students will recognize how humans have modified the southeast
landscape of Oklahoma by damming creeks and rivers to create
numerous lakes.
Procedures
Show first slide of “Southeast Oklahoma Landscape” PowerPoint which
is a Landsat image of Southeast Oklahoma.
Discuss interpreting colors on a satellite image.
Students will complete a Southeast Oklahoma Lake Chart by referring
to the Landsat image and an Oklahoma road map. The categories on
the chart are lakes, rivers dammed by the lakes and counties where
lakes are located.
Show PowerPoint slide portraying a map of the natural vegetation in
Oklahoma. Using the map key, students will discuss what trees are
found in southeast Oklahoma.
1. Lake Eufaula
2. Robert S. Kerr Lake
3. Lake Wister
8. Sardis Lake
4. Atoka Lake
7. Lake Broken Bow
9. McGee Creek Lake
6. Pine Creek Lake
What two
good size
Sardis
Lake
Southeast
was
built
Why
do in
Oklahoma
1982.
you think
lakes
McGee
they are
not shown
Creek
Lake
not
onshown?
this
was
builtlate
1970s
in
1987.
Landsat
image?
5. Lake Hugo
EOSAT Corporation
Aerial view of Lake Eufaula
Lake Eufaula, the largest
lake located entirely in
Oklahoma, now covers
North Fork Town, which
had been an important
Creek tribal community.
Standing Rock, a famous
landmark, is also beneath
the lake. It stood 63 ft.
above the waters of the
Canadian River and was a
favorite fishing spot for
early day settlers.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library
Spillway on Lake Broken Bow, the deepest lake in Oklahoma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Broken-bow-spillway.jpg
http://www.okatlas.org/
In which county or counties is each lake located?
http://www.okatlas.org/
What is the natural vegetation in southeast Oklahoma?
Talimena Scenic Drive in Winding Stair Mountains, Ouachita National Forest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talimena_Scenic_Drive
http://www.beaversbendgetaways.com/