Better Vice Club
Oklahoma standards alignment
Designed for high school. Below is every Oklahomastandard these courses cover: the exact code, the standard's own words, and the lesson that covers it. Where we only cover part of a standard, it says so, and says which part.
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Read this before you rely on it
- We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by Better Vice Club against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by Oklahoma's education authority or by anyone else.
- Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
- Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
- We would rather claim less. Where the courses only partly cover a standard, this page says partially covered and explains the gap. Standards we considered and could not honestly claim are listed at the bottom, with the reasons.
Filtering by course: BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- All courses
- BVC: Beer — Liquid Bread
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: Khat — The Afternoon Leaf
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Opioids — The Poppy's Promise
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Tobacco — Sacred Smoke
Showing 3 standards covered by BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace. Clear filters
Oklahoma · Social Studies
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies — World History (WH)
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies · adopted 2019 · World History · Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) · retrieved 2026-07-19
Oklahoma's high-school World History course. The colonial, imperial, commodity-trade, and Cold-War content of the BVC Commodity Map and the labor-history catalog maps onto its Global-Age, revolutions-and-imperialism, and post-war strands. Transcribed verbatim from the OSDE 2019 Social Studies Standards.
Read the source document →WH.2.3
CoveredAnalyze migration, settlement patterns, cultural diffusion, and the transformations caused by the competition for resources among European nations during the Age of Exploration.
Covered by
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: Tobacco — Sacred Smoke
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
- · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
- · Ep 11 · The Triangular Trade
- · Ep 12 · Burning the Books (the destruction of the Mesoamerican codices)
- · Ep 15 · From Sacred to Commodity
- · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
- · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
- · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
- · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
- · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
Note: This is the curriculum's method: European competition for the resources that could only grow in certain places (the growing belts), the conquest of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, and the Columbian Exchange as cultural and biological diffusion.
WH.3.5
CoveredExplain the rationales for and consequences of imperialism on Asia, Africa, and the Americas, such as colonization and the exploitation of natural resources and peoples; summarize various efforts to resist imperialism.
Covered by
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: Opioids — The Poppy's Promise
- BVC: Khat — The Afternoon Leaf
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- · Ep 2 · Who Grows the Tea (colonial and plantation labour)
- · Ep 5 · Whose Knowledge Is It
- · Ep 6 · Kava Governs
- · Ep 17 · The Opium Wars
- · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence
- · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
- · Ep 5 · How Coca-Cola Got Its Name (biopiracy)
- · Ep 7 · The Same Story, Six Times
- · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom (the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty)
- · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
- · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
- · Ep 11 · The Maroons
- · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
- · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter
Note: Both halves the standard asks for: the rationales and consequences of imperialism worked through the commodities that drove it (the exploitation of resources and peoples across Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and how those patterns persist today), and the efforts to resist it — from Maroon communities to the Opium Wars to revolution.
Oklahoma · Social Studies
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies — World Human Geography (WG)
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies · adopted 2019 · World Human Geography · Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) · retrieved 2026-07-19
Oklahoma's high-school World Human Geography course. The Great Migration and the BVC growing-belts/agricultural-diffusion content map onto its migration and agricultural-land-use strands. Transcribed verbatim from the OSDE 2019 Social Studies Standards.
Read the source document →WG.5.2
Partially coveredDescribe and summarize the characteristics of modern commercial agriculture including major production regions, variations within major zones, and effects of markets.
Covered by
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
- · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
- · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
- · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
- · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
- · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
- · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
- · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
- · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
- · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
- · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
What we do and don't cover: Partial: the world's commodity growing regions — climate and soil deciding where coffee, tea, cacao, and sugar can grow — and the markets that move them (who is paid what along the chain) are taught in depth. A general treatment of commercial agriculture is not.
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.
See it for yourself
Don't take the mapping on trust. Open the lesson and check it against the standard. Every course publishes its sources too.