Correlations to

Oregon's Academic Standards

Module I

8000 years of American Prehistory

Grade 6:

Geography
Identify, locate, and compare clothing, recreation, myths, building of dams for flood control, air-conditioned buildings in warm climates, and economic activities related to natural resources (land use). (Relate ancient civilizations to the present.)
Civics and Gov't
Analyze and evaluate the causes and effects, processes and patterns of human movements, both chosen and forced in the world.

Grade 8:

Geography
Analyze the characteristics, distribution, and migration of population, in the context of US History.

Identify, locate, and compare clothing, recreation, myths, building of dams for flood control, air-conditioned buildings in warm climates, and economic activities related to natural resources (land use).

Module II

From Forest to Farm and Back Again

Grade 6:

Geography
Explain the components of most maps (title, scale, legend, grid, and projection). Analyze the characteristics, distribution, and migration of population, in context of history studied.

Explain characteristics and locations of societies including factors responsible for patterns of population; influences of human migration; and geographic factors responsible for the location of economic activities (with a focus on ancient civilizations).

Analyze and evaluate the causes and effects, processes and patterns of human movements, both chosen and forced in the world.

Grade 7:

Geography
Analyze the characteristics, distribution, and migration of population, in context of history studied.

Grade 8:

Geography
How the process of urbanization affects the physical environment of a place (disruption of existing vegetation and wildlife habitats, redirection of water flow), the cultural characteristics of a place (greater diversity and proximity of goods and services), and the physical and human characteristics of the surrounding region (relocation of wildlife, growth of suburbs).

Module III

Fueling the Fires of American Industrialization

Grade 6:

Geography
Identify, locate, and compare clothing, recreation, myths, building of dams for flood control, air-conditioned buildings in warm climates, and economic activities related to natural resources (land use). (Relate ancient civilizations to the present.)

Analyze and evaluate the causes and effects, processes and patterns of human movements, both chosen and forced in the world.

Analyze and give examples of the consequences of human impact on the physical environment, and evaluate ways in which technology influences human capacity to modify the physical environment. Give examples of how both natural and technological hazards have impacted the physical environment and human populations in specific areas of Europe and the Americas.

Grade 7:

Geography
Identify, locate, and compare clothing, recreation, myths, building of dams for flood control, air-conditioned buildings in warm climates, and economic activities related to natural resources (land use).

Grade 8:

Geography
How the process of urbanization affects the physical environment of a place (disruption of existing vegetation and wildlife habitats, redirection of water flow), the cultural characteristics of a place (greater diversity and proximity of goods and services), and the physical and human characteristics of the surrounding region (relocation of wildlife, growth of suburbs).

Identify ways people modified the physical environment as the United States developed, and the types of problems that came as a result.

Module IV

From Arbor Day to Earth Day

Grade 6:

Civics and Gov't
Understand citizen rights in context of history taught and current events.

Analyze and evaluate the causes and effects, processes and patterns of human movements, both chosen and forced in the world.
Historical Skills
Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.

Grade 7:

Civics and Gov't
Explain how participation varies in the United States and in the world, and how this compares with other societies in context of history and geography studied.

Historical Skills
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history. Keep in mind that there may be more than one cause for an event or movement.

Grade 8:

Civics and Gov't
Understand how government is influenced and changed by support and dissent of individuals, groups, and international organizations.

Module V

A New Profession Takes Seed

Grade 6:

Civics and Gov't
Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.

Grade 7:

Historical Skills
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history. Keep in mind that there may be more than one cause for an event or movement.

Grade 8:

Geography
Identify ways people modified the physical environment as the United States developed, and the types of problems that came as a result.

Module VI

From Forest to Farm to Urban Forest

Grade 6:

Geography
Explain the components of most maps (title, scale, legend, grid, and projection). Compare different map types (topographic, thematic, etc.) and different map projections, and explain the appropriate use for each.

Grade 7:

Civics and Gov't
Analyze and evaluate the causes and effects, processes and patterns of human movements, both chosen and forced in the world.

Grade 8:

Geography
How the process of urbanization affects the physical environment of a place (disruption of existing vegetation and wildlife habitats, redirection of water flow), the cultural characteristics of a place (greater diversity and proximity of goods and services), and the physical and human characteristics of the surrounding region (relocation of wildlife, growth of suburbs).

Identify ways people modified the physical environment as the United States developed, and the types of problems that came as a result.

Module VII

Trees in Your Own Back Yard

Grade 6:

Civics and Gov't
Understand citizen rights in context of history taught and current events.

Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.

Grade 8:

Civics and Gov't
Understand how government is influenced and changed by support and dissent of individuals, groups, and international organizations.
Geography
How the process of urbanization affects the physical environment of a place (disruption of existing vegetation and wildlife habitats, redirection of water flow), the cultural characteristics of a place (greater diversity and proximity of goods and services), and the physical and human characteristics of the surrounding region (relocation of wildlife, growth of suburbs).

Module VIII

Harvesting Today in a Global Forest

Grade 6:

Civics and Gov't
Explain how countries have interacted with one another in context of period of history studied.

Grade 7:

Civics and Gov't
Explain how countries have interacted with one another in context of period of history studied.

History
Draw appropriate conclusions based on data from charts, tables, and graphs.

Grade 8:

Civics and Gov't
Understand how actions of the U.S. government affect citizens of both the United States and other countries.

Economics
Identify and give examples of how the United States economy affects citizens of both the United States and other countries.

Module IX

Fire:Fight, Flight, or Coexistence?

Grade 6:

Historical Skills
Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.

Grade 7:

Historical Skills
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history. Keep in mind that there may be more than one cause for an event or movement.

Grade 8:

Historical Skills
Understand relationships among events, issues, and developments in different spheres of human activity (i.e. economic, social, political, cultural).

U.S. History
Understand and interpret events, issues, and developments within and across eras of U.S. history.

Geography
Understand how people and the environment are interrelated.

Module X

The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S.

Grade 6:

Historical Skills
Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.

Grade 7:

Historical Skills
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history. Keep in mind that there may be more than one cause for an event or movement.

Grade 8:

Historical Skills
Understand relationships among events, issues, and developments in different spheres of human activity (i.e. economic, social, political, cultural).

U.S. History
Understand and interpret events, issues, and developments within and across eras of U.S. history.

Geography
Understand how people and the environment are interrelated.

Module XI

Forest Research: Who, What, Where & Why?

Grade 6:

Historical Skills
Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.

Analyze and give examples of the consequences of human impact on the physical environment, and evaluate ways in which technology influences human capacity to modify the physical environment. Give examples of how both natural and technological hazards have impacted the physical environment and human populations in specific areas of Europe and the Americas.

Grade 7:

Historical Skills
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history. Keep in mind that there may be more than one cause for an event or movement.

Grade 8:

Historical Skills
Understand relationships among events, issues, and developments in different spheres of human activity (i.e. economic, social, political, cultural).

U.S. History
Understand and interpret events, issues, and developments within and across eras of U.S. history.

Geography
Understand how people and the environment are interrelated.