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Annie Elsberry, OKAGE Teacher Consultant, WEEK 1 GAMES Pawhuska Elementary School, Pawhuska, OK

GAME SCHEDULE North Dakota State at Iowa State Samford at TCU Okla. St. vs Florida St. (Arlington) West Virginia vs Alabama (Atlanta) Central Arkansas at Texas North Texas at Texas Stephen F. Austin at State Louisiana Tech at SMU at Baylor

1. We usually associate the Badlands is the area of this with the national park in South Dakota. state in square miles ➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY However, there are also badlands (including water)? preserved in Theodore Roosevelt National What is the area Even though North Dakota has a semi-arid climate, the longest Park in North Dakota. These badlands are of Texas (including river in the U.S. flows through the state. Using an almanac or located in southwestern North Dakota water)? How much an atlas, list the 10 longest rivers in the U.S. and their lengths. where the wind and water have shaped larger is Texas? Using a U.S. map, trace the course of each river from its source the land into beautiful formations. Here 4. The home state of to its mouth. The waters of seven of these rivers flow into you can find buttes, pyramids, domes, and one of the Big 12 what body of water? cones. What is a butte and what kind of universities has the rock composes a butte? western hemisphere’s 2. Florida has the lowest “high” point of largest steel span Louisiana is located on the coastal plain any state in the U.S. Where is it located bridge. Which state is it? In spite of of the Gulf of Mexico. Its main waterway and what is its elevation? Where is the its name, the bridge crosses one of the is the Mississippi River and the state highest point in Oklahoma and what is oldest rivers in North America. What has many bayous, lagoons, and oxbow its elevation? river is it? What valuable natural lakes. What is an oxbow lake and how resource of exceptional quality is found does it form? What large lake near New 3. This week finds the Samford University along the river? Orleans is an example of an oxbow lake? Bulldog traveling to Texas to play the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs. 5. The plays host In what state is Samford located? What to Louisiana Tech University this week.

For more than 26 years, OKAGE has provided high-quality professional development and classroom-ready preK-12 materials to increase geographic literacy at all grade levels. OKAGE is the primary advocate and source of information for geography educators throughout Oklahoma. September 1-7

Jeffrey M. Widener, GIS Librarian, WEEK 2 GAMES The University of Oklahoma, Norman

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma at Tulsa Southeast State at Kansas Towson at West Virginia Kansas State at Iowa State Northeastern State at Baylor Texas Tech at UTEP Missouri State at Oklahoma State Brigham Young at Texas

To answer this week’s questions, you will need Using the Internet, visit the DAAR web site. the gray boxes with the dates inside of them an Oklahoma state map and access to the Set your Map Type to “Predominant Religion (1996-2012). Internet to visit City-Data (http://www.city-data. Families”, your Map Details to “Adherents” com/) and the Digital Atlas of American Religion Compare and contrast voting patterns and “as % of Total Population”, and Change (DAAR) (http://religionatlas.org/?page_id=44). over the past five Presidential Geography to “Louisiana”. Then, click the Elections between Lubbock and El Paso 1. Using your Oklahoma state map, calculate “Refresh” button. residents. how far OU fans leaving Norman will have Describe what you see on this map. What to travel to Skelly Field at the University do you think explains this pattern? of Tulsa to see the take on the ➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Golden Hurricanes. Most drivers will 4. The will battle the Cougars Immigration and the security of probably use the Turner Turnpike; what is of Brigham Young University, located in international borders is a hot topic the official highway number? Provo, Utah. Utah has a unique settlement in the U.S. Thousands of children and religious history much different from Extended activity: Have students from Central America have made the rest of the U.S. Using the Internet, visit compare the mileage they calculated using the dangerous trek to the U.S., the DAAR web site. Set your Map Type to the map to a popular map web site such as often entering the country illegally. “Predominant Religion Families”, your Map Google Maps. If fans want to avoid paying People bring their ideas, customs, Details to “Adherents” and “as Counts”, and turnpike tolls, what historic highway could and beliefs with them when they Change Geography to “Utah.” Then, click the they take instead from to migrate. Use the DAAR web site, “Refresh” button. Tulsa? set your Map Type to “Predominant What is the population count for Latter- 2. Using the Internet, visit the City-Data web Religion Families”, your Map Details day Saints/Mormonism? What religious site, type “Manhattan KS” in the Search to “Adherents” and “as Counts”, and family has the second highest count of box, then click “Go.” On the resulting page, Change Geography to “All States.” adherents? scroll about halfway down and find “Natural Then, click the “Refresh” button. Disasters.” How does Riley County (where Now, Change Geography to “Texas”, and click Locate the slide bar just above the Manhattan is located) compare to the U.S. the “Refresh” button. How many people map. Beginning in the year 2010, average in Natural Disasters? claiming Latter-day Saints/Mormonism as move your slide rule back to 2000. their faith does Texas have? Looking at the changing religious Repeat the same steps for Cape Girardeau, geography of Texas, describe how MO. How does Cape Girardeau compare to 5. Texas Tech will invade far west Texas to take immigrants from Latin America, a the U.S. average in Natural Disasters? on the University of Texas at El Paso. Using the Internet, visit the City-Data web site and region where most people claim the If you wanted to avoid floods, in which of get the city profile information for El Paso Catholic faith, has changed the U.S. these two counties would you want to live? and Lubbock, TX. Scroll about 2/3 of the way What differences have you noticed 3. This week the Baylor Bears take on down the page to the Presidential Elections in your community or your school in Louisiana’s Northwestern State Demons. Results pie chart. Using your mouse, click on recent years? Think about the sports you play, the music you hear, the signs you read, the food you eat, etc. September 8-14

Joseph Rohr, OKAGE Teacher WEEK 3 GAMES Consultant, Tulsa, OK

GAME SCHEDULE Baylor at Buffalo Kansas at Duke UTSA at Oklahoma State West Virginia at Mayland Arkansas at Texas Tech UCLA vs Texas (Arlington) Iowa State at Iowa Minnesota at TCU Tennessee at Oklahoma

1. One of this week’s games pits the Baylor Bears of and the against the Bulls of The State University of New York Volunteers involves two tradition-rich universities. at Buffalo. Name three major natural and man-made Give a brief description how each university’s team geographic formations/features that are located nickname was chosen. within 25 miles of the city of Buffalo. Often when 5. The West Virginia and Maryland football teams will you read an article about Bears battling Bulls, the face off this week in College Park, Maryland. The writer is referring to another place in New York. airport in College Park has a special relationship with What is this place and in what city is it located? two famous individuals involved in the early history 2. The OSU Cowboys will battle the UTSA Roadrunners of aviation in the U.S. Name these people and briefly at home this week. Driving from the campus of describe that relationship between them and UTSA to OSU, name the city where the journey College Park. will start and the city where the trip will end. Also, what is the major highway and the approximate distance the fans will have to travel between the two campuses?

3. The game between the University of and the Duke University Blue Devils will be played on the Blue Devils’ home field.Name the city and state where each university is located. In which time zone will the game be played? Using the web site http:// itouchmap.com/latlong.html, determine the absolute location of the football fields at each university. Use ° for degrees, ‘ for minutes, and “ for seconds.

4. The game between the University ➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY How many teams are in the ? Name all the schools and the cities / towns where they are located. September 15-21

Rob Miles, OKAGE Teacher Consultant, WEEK 4 GAMES Putnam City High School, Oklahoma City, OK

GAME SCHEDULE Auburn at Kansas State Oklahoma at West Virginia Central Michigan at Kansas

1. This week University this week. Michigan, ➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY with its unusual shape, touches plays Auburn University. When Many Sooners fans will probably drive four of the five Great Lakes. Auburn plays a home game, a sell- to Morgantown, West Virginia, for the out at their home stadium helps Name the four Great Lakes that game against the Mountaineers this Auburn become the sixth largest border Michigan and the one that week. If you were to drive to the game, city in Alabama, if only for a few does not. Which is the largest of your journey would take you from the hours. Kansas State is hoping to the Great Lakes? Which is the Great Plains to the eastern mountain fill their stadium, Bill Snyder Family smallest? ranges. On a map of the U.S. (or using Football Stadium, when they play http://www.mapquest.com or Google 5. Lawrence, Kansas, and Mount Auburn. Where does Manhattan, Maps), plan your trip. Decide which Pleasant, Michigan, are the Kansas, rank normally among highways to use for the fastest, most hometowns for the Kansas all Kansas cities in terms of direct route there, and determine the Jayhawks and the Central mileage from Norman to Morgantown. population, and where will it rank Michigan Chippewas. List any major landmarks or land forms if the stadium sells out? Using the Community Facts tab you will see along the way [hint: there 2. The Oklahoma Sooners make only of factfinder2.census.gov and is a historic landmark in St. Louis and a their second visit to Morgantown the 2010 Census data, compare major landform as you leave St. Louis since population, age, education, and and enter the Land of Lincoln]. Finally, imagine your car gets joined the Big 12 Conference. income of the two cities. 25 miles to the gallon and What nearby landform gives Which city: gasoline costs an average West Virginia University its has more people? of $3.00 per gallon. mascot nickname? What 2,184 has a younger population About how many gallons mile long National Park lies (median age)? of gasoline will you use approximately 150 miles east to get to Morgantown of Morgantown? has a higher percentage of people and how much with a high school diploma? will you spend on 3. West Virginia became a state in makes more money per family? fuel? [Note: this what year? What major event in is one-way only, U.S. history caused West Virginia but students can to join the Union after separating also calculate the from Virginia? What side of the mileage and the event did West Virginia join? gasoline costs of the round trip.] 4. The Kansas Jayhawks face the Chippewas of Central Michigan September 22-28

Ginny Rohr, OKAGE Teacher WEEK 5 GAMES Consultant, Tulsa, OK

GAME SCHEDULE Texas Tech at Oklahoma State UTEP at Kansas State Texas at Kansas Baylor at Iowa State TCU at SMU

1. What prominent agricultural scientist and inventor 4. The largest earthquake ever recorded in Kansas had attended from 1891-1896? its epicenter near Manhattan in 1867. It measured He experimented with sweet potatoes, soybeans, and 5.1 on the Richter scale, causing minor injuries, pecans, but is probably best known for the hundreds cracked walls, and some fallen chimneys. What is an of products, including plastics, paints, and even “epicenter”? Who developed the Richter scale? gasoline, derived from what crop? 5. Baylor is the oldest continually operating university in 2. Next year Southern Methodist University will Texas. Chartered by the Republic of Texas, in what celebrate the centennial of its opening. When was year did it open? Why was Texas once called the the university actually founded? What former U.S. Republic of Texas? president has decided to locate his library at SMU? The climate of is described as humid and ➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY subtropical - what does this mean? The Ames Laboratory, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, is located 3. The Oklahoma State vs. Texas Tech game is scheduled at and operated by Iowa State University. The new standard of DNA to begin at 6:30 p.m. in Stillwater. In what time zone sequencing was developed in their lab. You can follow these directions to is Stillwater located? What time will Cowboy fans in make a DNA model. California need to tune in? What about those in New Materials: York? Hawaii? 2 long red licorice sticks 8 toothpicks 4 colors of soft sweets (ex. mini marshmallows, gummy bears; 16 total) 1. Assign a letter or name to each color: (A) adenine (T) thymine (C) cytosine (G) guanine 2. Pair up sweets A with T; C with G. (It doesn’t matter if a pair is A-T or T-A, as long as it is paired together.) 3. Stick a toothpick through each pair. 4. Attach ends of the toothpicks through the licorice sticks. (It will look like a ladder when you are finished.) 5. Pick up your ladder at each end and gently twist. 6. Enjoy your DNA double helix! It makes YOU unique!

Extended Learning Explain DNA. What do the three letters stand for? September 29-October 5

Janet Hall, OKAGE Teacher Consultant, WEEK 6 GAMES Bethany Middle School, Bethany, OK

GAME SCHEDULE Baylor at Texas Iowa State at Oklahoma State Oklahoma at TCU Kansas at West Virginia Texas Tech at Kansas State

1. The Oklahoma State Cowboys play the Iowa State 4. Every university team in the Big 12 – except for one Cyclones in Stillwater this weekend. A mesocyclone – is located in a county seat. Which one is not in a often turns into a tornado. Using http://www.city- county seat? What is a county seat? What was the data.com/, research Ames, Iowa (the home of ISU), first state in the United States to form counties? and Stillwater, Oklahoma. Which city is at a higher One team from the Big 12 is in a state that was risk for tornadoes? How different or similar are 5. almost named “Kanawha.” What state and team is the risks? (Note: You will need to click on the state, it? Why did U.S. Senator Waitman T. Willey oppose then “city profiles”, and then click on the city to naming the state Kanawha? find your answers.) 2. One Oklahoma team is playing in a city which used to have an area called “Hell’s Half Acre.” What city is it? What two teams are playing there? How did the area get this name? 3. All four Texas Big 12 teams play this weekend. The Oklahoma Sooners travel to Ft. Worth to play the closest Texas team, the TCU Horned Frogs. Of the remaining three Texas team cities, which destination would be the farthest distance for OU fans to drive from Norman? Which would take the longest time to get there? Is there a difference between which is farthest and which takes the longest? If so, why?

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Three of the Big 12 football teams are named for animal species that used to roam freely in the areas of those teams: the Bears (black bears), the Wildcats (bobcats), and the Horned Frogs (horned lizards). However, two of those three species have become rare in the areas around their namesake teams. Which teams used each of the three nicknames? What protections, if any, do each of these three species receive in each team’s state today? October 6-12

Bill Amburn, OKAGE Teacher WEEK 7 GAMES Consultant, Bartlesville, OK

GAME SCHEDULE West Virginia at Texas Tech Texas vs Oklahoma (Dallas) Toledo at Iowa State Oklahoma State at Kansas TCU at Baylor

1. The play the 3. The Oklahoma State Cowboys will have Longhorns meet at the Texas State University of Toledo Rockets this week. a Big 12 battle with the Kansas Jayhawks Fairgrounds in Dallas to continue the Red The Rockets are located in Ohio closest in Lawrence. The border between Kansas River Rivalry. The Dallas-Ft. Worth area is to which of the Great Lakes? Where does and Oklahoma is a line of latitude. What known as the Metroplex. Which is larger this lake rank in size (surface area)? latitude line is shared by the two States? in population, the Metroplex or the State About how long is the Kansas-Oklahoma of Oklahoma? 2. The West Virginia Mountaineers travel border? to play the . Texas Tech is located in Lubbock in the 4. The Baylor Bears will meet the Texas southern part of the Great Plains in the Christian Horned Frogs in a purely Texas Texas panhandle. One of Lubbock’s most football showdown. In the wild, black prominent physical geographic features bears are sometimes found in woodland is called a playa. What are playas? How and desert scrub of what area of Texas? are they formed? Playa is also a Spanish word that means what in English? 5. The Oklahoma Sooners and Texas

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Draw a map of Oklahoma and Kansas with the latitude and longitude borders as well as rivers. Use an atlas or the following links to guide you. Most of the borders of Kansas are straight lines, while one of Oklahoma’s borders is formed by a river. Which two rivers make up a portion of the borders of Kansas and Oklahoma? These rivers separate Kansas and Oklahoma from what other states? http://www.okatlas.org/okatlas/location/lat-long.htm http://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/states/kansas/lat-long.html October 13-19

Denise Aguilar, OKAGE Teacher Consultant, WEEK 8 GAMES Central Middle School, Lawton, OK

GAME SCHEDULE Kansas State at Oklahoma Oklahoma State at TCU Iowa State at Texas Baylor at West Virginia Kansas at Texas Tech

1. The main campus and home of this Big 12 4. This Big 12 University, which began as an 5. Iowa State University is located in Ames, football team has the nickname “The Little all-male, all-white institution in 1867, is just 35 miles north of the Iowa state Apple” which is located at the coordinates located at the intersections of Interstate capital. In spite of being home to Iowa 39.2N 96.58W. There is a portion of 79 and Interstate 68. It lies within a 500- State, Ames is only the eighth largest city another city located at the coordinates mile radius of half of the population of the in the state. What is the capital of Iowa 40.8N 73.95W in the northeast section United States and a third of the population and how much larger is it than Ames? of the U.S. that shares the same name. of Canada. It is only a one-day’s drive from What is the name of this city and in six of the eight largest U.S. metropolitan which two states are they located? areas. Name this university and the six What similar nickname does the city in U.S. metropolitan areas that are within a the northeast have? [Hint: open Google day’s drive. Maps and type each set of coordinates into the search box exactly as they appear above, and then hit your return/ enter key.]

2. , located in central Texas, has a licensed zoo on its campus in order to house two of Baylor’s mascots. What is the mascot and what are their names?

3. The Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján, usually known simply as Coronado, explored this arid region while searching for the Seven Cities of Gold. The Llano Estacado, which translates to the “staked plains” or “palisaded plains,” is a large desert mesa whose edges form a large ridge outside the city that is home to a Big 12 university in the panhandle of Texas. Name this ➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY university and the city in which it is This Kansas native, currently a host on “Fox and Friends” on the Fox News Channel, was the located. What is the distinguishing first student DJ on KJHK 90.7 FM. This journalist was named the “Distinguished Kansan of the geological characteristic of the Llano Year” in 2014. Who is this Kansan and of what university is he an alumnus? Jim Lehrer and Bill Estacado called? Kurtis, also recipients of the “Distinguished Kansan” award, have something in common with the 2014 honoree besides being from Kansas. What is it? October 20-26

Ginny Rohr, OKAGE Teacher WEEK 9 GAMES Consultant, Tulsa, OK

GAME SCHEDULE West Virginia at Oklahoma State Texas Tech at TCU Texas at Kansas State

followed this route from 1867 to 1884? Why did 1. West Virginia fans will travel to Oklahoma State ➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY to play in Stillwater this week. If they drive Kansas prohibit Texas cattle to enter the state On Your Feet and Sing! the most direct route via interstate and U.S. in 1885? highways, what major rivers that are part of 4. Captain William L. Couch is credited with naming Locate Stillwater on a state map. Find the Mississippi drainage system will they cross? “The Town of Stillwater” after a nearby creek. the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River Name the two major highways they will travel. The area opened to white settlement by the and Arkansas River. Which river is a 2. Texas Christian, Oklahoma State, and Kansas Oklahoma land run in April 22, 1889, was referred tributary to the other? What general State all play at home this week. According to to as the “.” Why? By 1900, direction does each river flow? the 2010 census, what is the population of what was the major crop grown by farmers in 1. Pretend you are in a boat on one of each state? Round each number to the nearest the county? these rivers. hundred thousand. Texas is in the top five states 5. Kansas State University’s main campus is located 2. Sing Row Row Row Your Boat, as by population. Where does it rank, and what are in Manhattan. The university also has campuses you travel downstream on your river. the other four states? in what two other Kansas towns? Besides its 3. Sing in a round as one river flows into the other. 3. Great herds of cattle were driven from Fort Worth main campus in Stillwater, where else does to the railheads in Kansas along the Chisholm Oklahoma State University have campuses? [Note: You may have to turn up the volume on your player after clicking on the “Row Row Row” link.] Trail during the 19th century. What type of cattle http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mister_Jan/ Silly_Songs/14_-_mister_jan_-_row_row_row_ October 27- November 2 your_boat_kzz01_vbr

Submitted by Annie Elsberry, OKAGE WEEK 10 GAMES Teacher Consultant, Pawhuska, OK

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma State at Kansas State Kansas at Baylor Oklahoma at Iowa State Texas at Texas Tech TCU at West Virginia

1. Stillwater, the home of Oklahoma State This left the land unoccupied. What were these and identify the one that receives the least University, is the county seat of Payne County. two tribes? How big were these lands? amount of direct sunlight each year because of where it is located. Why is this? For whom is Payne County named and 3. Big Bend National Park is located about 500 what role did he play in the settlement of miles west of the University of Texas at Austin. 5. While they are visiting Manhattan this weekend, Oklahoma? Big Bend is sometimes called a “geologist’s Oklahoma State and Kansas State fans may 2. The Unassigned Lands were located in the paradise.” Why is this? What country borders want to visit the boyhood home and presidential center of what would become the state of Big Bend along its south edge? What river library of the 34th president of the United Oklahoma. These lands had once belonged to forms that boundary? States in Abilene. Who was this president and when did he serve? What was his principal two Native American Indian tribes who were 4. Four Big 12 universities are located between 30° vocation before he entered politics? forced to give up the land after the Civil War. and 34° north latitude. Name these universities Oct 27- Nov 2 (cont.)

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Latitude is the direction in degrees, minutes, and seconds north or south of the equator. Lines of latitudes are sometimes called parallels. Using the Internet, locate the absolute location (the latitude and longitude) of your hometown to the nearest degree. Then, find the average high temperature and low temperature for the year. What are the averages for October and November? Use these two web sites to find your answers: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/findlatlong.htm http://www.weatherbase.com/

October 27- November 2

Joseph Rohr, OKAGE Teacher WEEK 11 GAMES Consultant, Tulsa, OK

GAME SCHEDULE Iowa State at Kansas West Virginia at Texas Kansas State at TCU Baylor at Oklahoma

1. With the exception of West Virginia, all northwest Oklahoma that has turned up off-beat, laid-back, “weird” place. It lays the Big 12 states produce significant some important finds.Where is this fossil claim to being the “live music capital of quantities of grain, such as wheat and dig and who is the university professor the world” and hosts the annual South corn. Where do the Big 12 states rank who recently discovered a dinosaur by Southwest (SXSW) music and film in wheat production in 2012 and 2013? tooth there? festival. Name this city and the university Which Big 12 state ranks first in the 3. There are only two private non-tax- located there. production of corn? supported universities in the Big 12. 5. Two of the four Big 12 games this week 2. The hometowns of the Oklahoma Sooners What are these two schools, with what will be played within a large area of land and the Baylor Bears boast museums that denominations are they connected, and that the U.S. bought in 1803. What was feature dinosaur fossils. What are the when were they founded? this new area called and from whom did names of these museums? Currently, 4. The hometown of one of the Big 12 teams the U.S. buy it? What two games will be an excavation project is going on in far playing this week prides itself on being an played in this huge expanse of land?

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Using an Oklahoma highway map (or download a digital copy of the map here: http://www.travelok.com/images/shell/maps/map_state_2013.pdf), decide on the route you would travel from your house or hometown to Norman to watch a Sooner football game. You can take a scenic route (so you can visit a museum or eat at a favorite place on the way) or the fastest route. Estimate what your travel distance and time will be. November 10-16

Marilyn Pineda, OKAGE Teacher Consultant, WEEK 12 GAMES Comanche Elementary School, Comanche, OK

GAME SCHEDULE Texas at Oklahoma State TCU at Kansas Oklahoma at Texas Tech

1. Three rivers separate Texas almost driving the cattle up the Chisholm Trail? 5. The largest natural gas field in North America completely from its neighboring areas. Only How much profit could the cattleman make and the second largest in the world lies under New Mexico’s border with Texas is made up after expenses? parts of three Big 12 states. of the straight lines typical of western state What is the name of 3. Driving those cattle up the Chisholm Trail boundaries. What are the three rivers? this field? For whom was often dangerous when the herd had They serve as boundaries between Texas was it named? What to cross a river. John A. Roebling and Son and what other areas? From source to states does it lie of New York designed and built a structure mouth, about how long are each of these beneath? that made this crossing much safer, although rivers? more expensive. What was this structure, 2. Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas were states the prototype of a more famous one in New through which many cattle trails ran. The York City? Where was it built and what river Chisholm Trail was probably the one used did it cross? What does “prototype” mean? most to get cattle from Texas to the railroads 4. Oklahoma State University will host Texas in in Kansas, and then to the market back East. a game played at in If cattle were worth $4 a head in Texas, but Stillwater. Who is Boone Pickens, where was could be sold for $40 a head in Kansas, how he born, and in what industry has he made much more could a rancher make on a herd his fortune? of 3,000 cattle by hiring a crew and

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY The Big 12 states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, along with New Mexico and Colorado, were the states most affected by the drought that caused the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. About how many people left this area because of the drought? What and when was Black Sunday? What famous Oklahoma songwriter and folksinger wrote a song about this day? Look at the pictures and listen to the music in this YouTube video < http://youtu.be/Vc0FzJdxK1o >, and write down an observation about two of the photos you find particularly interesting. November 17-23

Bill Amburn, OKAGE Teacher WEEK 13 GAMES Consultant, Bartlesville, OK

GAME SCHEDULE Kansas State at West Virginia Kansas at Oklahoma Oklahoma State at Baylor Texas Tech at Iowa State

1. Kansas State plays at West Virginia 4. Eight of the Big 12 teams are playing this week. West Virginia is in a each other this week. If they go by different time zone from all the other bus or car, which team must travel Big 12 teams. There are 24 standard farthest to play its opponent? time zones around the world Which team gets to drive the (because there are 24 hours in the shortest distance? day) and the time zones are based generally on longitude lines. About 5. One of Oklahoma’s “favorite sons” how many degrees longitude are in is Jim Thorpe, a member of the each time zone? Sac and Fox Nation. He was one of the first athletes inducted into the 2. Time around the world is American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame standardized so we can determine in 1972. Although it isn’t located on what time events far away begin its campus, the Hall of Fame can be and end. The UTC (universal time found in a city that is home coordinate) begins at the prime to a Big 12 university. meridian. Time zones are then What city is this, and numbered east of the prime meridian on what college with positive numbers and west with campus is the negative numbers. Where is the American Indian prime meridian? Look at a world Athletic Hall time zone map in an atlas or online of Fame to determine in which UTC time located? zone Oklahoma State and Baylor will play their game.

3. Use a U.S. map with latitudes and longitudes marked. Which two Big 12 teams will play a football game this weekend closest to 42° north and 94° west?

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Find the places with highest elevations in each Big 12 state, and rank them in order from highest to lowest. November 24-30

Jeffrey M. Widener, GIS Librarian, WEEK 14 GAMES The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

GAME SCHEDULE TCU at Texas Texas Tech vs Baylor (Dallas) Kansas at Kansas State West Virginia at Iowa State

1. Austin, Texas, developed on the statue of a famous Oklahoman banks of the Colorado River, the mounted on a horse on the campus longest river in the Lone Star State in Lubbock. Who is this Oklahoman with both its source and mouth in and what is the name of his horse? Texas. How long is the river? In what county would you find the 4. The Monongahela River Trails headwaters? Where is its mouth? Conservancy manages an What reservoir on the river is extensive 48-mile trail system named for a U.S. president? [Note: near what Big 12 university? What Don’t confuse this Colorado River activities are allowed on the trails? with the one that carved the Grand Evidence of what former industry Canyon!] can be seen along the trails?

2. The and 5. The Arkansas River, the sixth the Kansas Jayhawks will face longest river in the U.S., flows off in an intrastate rivalry. Both through Oklahoma. Using a good universities’ cities are located on the U.S. road atlas or online map site, Kansas River. The river is formed find where the Arkansas River when what two other rivers flow enters and leaves the state. What together? What is the name of the is the name of the first reservoir city where this occurs? in Oklahoma on the Arkansas River? What two major rivers 3. The Baylor Bears and the Texas flow into Keystone Lake? The Tech Red Raiders compete this McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River week on the neutral territory of Navigation System (MKARNS) AT&T Stadium in what city? What connects Oklahoma to what was the former name of this major U.S. river? Why is MKARNS stadium? If Texas Tech were playing important to Oklahoma industry at home, Baylor fans might see the and agriculture?

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY All major Oklahoma lakes and reservoirs are man-made, meaning that they were all created by damming up various rivers and streams. When lakes are created this way, some land will be flooded and often people have to move. Research Keystone Lake and discover what entire towns had to be moved and which ones abandoned. What famous explorers wrote about this area in the early 1800s? December 1-7

Denise Aguilar, OKAGE Teacher Consultant, WEEK 15 GAMES Central Middle School, Lawton, OK

GAME SCHEDULE Kansas State at Baylor Iowa State at TCU Oklahoma State at Oklahoma

1. The students of this Big 12 remaining unplowed tallgrass 4. Since the “” in university celebrate “Dr Pepper prairies. It is located south of football between Oklahoma State Hour,” an over 60-year-old Kansas State University, which University and the University of tradition, with a free soda every operates a Biological Field Station Oklahoma began in 1904, how Tuesday afternoon from 3 to 4 at this location. What is the many times have these two p.m., during the school year. It name of this tallgrass prairie? teams played one another? In started as “Coke Hour,” but the What county in Oklahoma also what years did they not play school switched beverages when boasts a 39,000 acre tallgrass a game? In what years were locally made Dr Pepper became prairie preserved by the Nature the highest and lowest scoring the school’s official soft drink in Conservancy? games? 1997. Which university celebrates “Dr Pepper 5. President Abraham Lincoln Hour” every Tuesday? signed the Morrill Act of 1862 Name the location of that gave birth to land grant this university that universities and opened higher shares its home with Dr education to all. What state Pepper. was the first to accept all of the terms of the Morrill 2. The mascot for the Act, allowing what Big university that began as 12 university to open in Oklahoma A&M College 1868? What other Big 12 was created around schools are also land grant 1923 from the likeness universities? of a deputy U.S. Marshal in Indian Territory. It replaced the first mascot that had been copied, including the orange and black colors, from ➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Princeton University. What was Kansas State University has a lecture series begun in 1966 by former university the original mascot? What is the president James A. McCain as a tribute to former Kansas Governor and current mascot’s name? After 1936 presidential candidate Alfred M. Landon. The speakers have included whom was he named? seven U.S. presidents, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and two international leaders, Mikhail Gorbachev and Vicente Fox Quesada. Which 3. Located in the Flint Hills of countries did Gorbachev and Fox lead? In what continent and hemisphere northeastern Kansas, you will find are each of their countries located? one of North America’s largest