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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/