Oklahoma standards alignment

• USG.2.3

  Covered

  Evaluate the necessity of a written constitution to set forth enumerated powers, to organize government, and to distribute powers among the three branches of government, the states, and the people.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 2 · Three kinds of power: enumerated, implied, reserved
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 3 · The enumerated powers: Article I, § 8 (the Necessary and Proper Clause)
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 6 · Concurrent powers: what both levels share
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 7 · McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): implied powers and supremacy

  Note: All three of the standard's distributions are taught: the Constitution worked article by article (enumerated powers, how it organizes government), the separation among the three branches, and the division between the states and the people through the powers taxonomy and federalism.

• USG.2.5

  Covered

  Analyze the constitutional amendment process including the 27 amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments

  Note: Article V's amendment procedure and the key later amendments are taught head-on, including why the federal bar is set so high.

• USG.3.6

  Covered

  Explain how power is separated as well as shared under the American system including the A. system of separation of powers B. system of checks and balances C. principle of judicial review.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)

  Note: All three named systems are taught directly: separation of powers and checks and balances in the Constitution course, and judicial review by name through Marbury v. Madison.

• USG.4.2

  Partially covered

  Examine the structure, functions, and authority exercised by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 1 · The federal judiciary: from district courts to the Supreme Court
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 7 · Checks on the Court
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 2 · Three kinds of power: enumerated, implied, reserved
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 3 · The enumerated powers: Article I, § 8 (the Necessary and Proper Clause)
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 6 · Concurrent powers: what both levels share
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 7 · McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): implied powers and supremacy

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the three branches and their Article I–III structure, the constitutional qualifications and composition (sub A), the legislative process end to end (sub B — an entire course), the judiciary, and two of the standard's named cases — Marbury v. Madison and McCulloch v. Maryland — are taught. The bureaucracy's role (sub C) and the three remaining named cases (United States v. Nixon, Bush v. Gore, Citizens United v. F.E.C.) are not.

• USG.4.1

  Partially covered

  Explain the purposes of government expressed in the Preamble and how the Constitution of the United States preserves the core principles of American society.

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the purposes of government and the Constitution's core principles are taught (the purpose-of-government lesson and the article-by-article analysis). The Preamble itself is not worked clause by clause as a text.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

• Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Oklahoma Academic Standards mathematics standard.
• English Language Arts — deferred, not denied (fetch-or-don't-cite). Oklahoma repealed its Common Core adoption in 2014 and writes its own Oklahoma Academic Standards for ELA. The catalog's media-literacy, source-evaluation, and BVC rhetoric work WOULD map to the OAS ELA reading-informational and writing strands, as it does to other states' ELA standards. But we have not yet fetched and verified the OAS ELA document, and our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Oklahoma carries no ELA claims this pass.
• Science — deferred, and NOT a blind NGSS alias. Oklahoma's science standards (adopted 2020) are Oklahoma's own — NGSS-influenced but not verbatim NGSS — so our shared NGSS file does not apply and we will not alias it. The one Earth-science-adjacent claim other states hang on HS-ESS3-1 (climate and resource availability shaping human activity) is deferred until the OAS Science document is fetched and its wording verified against Oklahoma's own codes. There is no laboratory work, investigation, or modelling in this catalog either way.
• USG.6 — the public-policy-formation strand. USG.6.1–6.4 (the federal budget process, fiscal and monetary policy, and the formulation of domestic and foreign policy, national defense, and participation in international organizations) are not genuinely taught by these courses.
• USG.5.4 — political parties, interest groups, and media. USG.5.4 analyzes the role of political parties, interest groups, mass media, public opinion, and campaign funding in the political process. Our media-literacy course is consumer protection, not political-media analysis, and we do not teach parties, interest groups, or public opinion as named content — so we do not claim it. (How-to-Help-a-Campaign's coverage of the legal guardrails on campaign money is a thin, one-sided overlap we will not stretch into this standard.)
• The USG foundations and federalism standards we checked and rejected. USG.1.1/1.2 (limited vs. unlimited governments), USG.1.4 (the role of government in market vs. command systems), USG.2.1 (the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, and English Bill of Rights as founding documents — our Constitution course starts from the Articles of Confederation, not these), USG.2.2 (inalienable rights and the Declaration's grievances as named content), USG.2.4 (the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalists as texts), USG.3.5 (how the Commerce Clause established the constitutional relationship with Indian tribes — the flagship teaches tribal sovereignty and McGirt, which we DO claim via USG.3.4, but not the Commerce Clause's specific role in tribal relations), and USG.3.8 (popular sovereignty and majority rule vs. minority rights as named concepts) — the courses do not genuinely teach these.
• Oklahoma's economic-systems standard has no home for the reciprocity economy. The curriculum contrasts traditional (reciprocity) and market economies directly and at length, but Oklahoma's E.2.1 compares MARKET, COMMAND, and MIXED systems — it does not name traditional or reciprocity economies, and we do not teach command economies. So, as in Arizona and California, the reciprocity-vs-market content has no economic-systems standard to meet. The gap is in the standards, not the lessons.
• Most of the Economics, USH, WH, and WG strands. Oklahoma's Economics course is overwhelmingly personal finance and macroeconomics (money supply, banking, interest rates, GDP, the Federal Reserve — E.1, E.2.2–E.2.5, E.4–E.13), which this catalog does not teach. Across United States History, World History, and World Human Geography we claim only the strands with genuine lesson evidence (named in the frameworks above) and leave the many strands the catalog does not cover — the World Wars, the New Deal's named agencies, the Middle East and China strands, the industrialization-and-development geography strands, and the rest — unclaimed. Oklahoma History (OKH), Psychology, and Sociology are not claimed at all.
• Oklahoma's own state structure is taught more fully than any one code captures. Oklahoma Civics teaches the two courts of last resort (the civil Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals — a feature shared only with Texas), the large plural executive and the elected Corporation Commission, the 101/48-member Legislature with term limits, Oklahoma's first-in-the-nation constitutional initiative and referendum, merit selection with retention, and 38+ sovereign tribal nations — from Oklahoma's own sources. Oklahoma's USG course has no dedicated state-structure standard, so USG.3.3 (relationships and responsibilities among the levels of government) and USG.3.4 (tribal sovereignty) are the generous homes we cite this content under; the split top bench, the plural executive, and the direct-democracy 'first' have no USG code of their OWN, and the elected Corporation Commission is not separately citable.