Correlations to California’s Course of Study
Module I
8000 years of American Prehistory
Grades 6-8:
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis and Skills:
Research, Evidence Point of View:
2. Students distinguish fact from opinion in historical narratives and stories.
4. Students assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources and draw sound conclusions from them.
Historical Interpretation:
4. Students recognize the role of chance, oversight, and error in history.
5. Students recognize that interpretations of history are subject to change as new information is uncovered.
Module II
From Forest to Farm and Back Again
Grades 6-8:
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis and Skills:
Chronological and Spatial Thinking:
3. Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems.
Historical Interpretation:
3. Students explain the sources of historical continuity and how the combination of ideas and events explains the emergence of new patterns.
Grade 8:
8.6 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced, with emphasis on the Northeast.
1. Discuss the influence of industrialization and technological developments on the region, including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped human actions (e.g., growth of cities, deforestation, farming, mineral extraction).
Module III
Fueling the Fires of American Industrialization
Grades 6-8:
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis and Skills:
Chronological and Spatial Thinking:
1. Students explain how major events are related to one another in time.
Grade 8:
8.6 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced, with emphasis on the Northeast.
1. Discuss the influence of industrialization and technological developments on the region, including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped human actions (e.g., growth of cities, deforestation, farming, mineral extraction).
2. Outline the physical obstacles to and the economic and political factors involved in building a network of roads, canals, and railroads (e.g., Henry Clay's American System).
Module IV
From Arbor Day to Earth Day
Grades 6-8:
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis and Skills:
Chronological and Spatial Thinking:
1. Students explain how major events are related to one another in time.
Research, Evidence and Point of View:
1. Students frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research.
Grade 8:
8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.
6. Describe the basic law-making process and how the Constitution provides numerous opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process and to monitor and influence government (e.g., function of elections, political parties, interest groups).
8.12 Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Indus-trial Revolution.
5. Examine the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization (e.g., the effects on social fabric of cities, wealth and economic opportunity, the conservation movement).
Module V
A New Profession Takes Seed
Grades 6-8:
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis and Skills:
Historical Interpretation:
2. Students understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including the long-and short-term causal relations.
3. Students explain the sources of historical continuity and how the combination of ideas and events explains the emergence of new patterns.
Module VI
From Forest to Farm to Urban Forest
Grades 6-8:
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis and Skills:
Chronological and Spatial Thinking:
3. Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems.
Grade 8:
8.12 Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.
1. Trace patterns of agricultural and industrial development as they relate to climate, use of natural resources, markets, and trade and locate such development on a map.
5. Examine the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization (e.g., the effects on social fabric of cities, wealth and economic opportunity, the conservation movement).
Module VII
Trees in Your Own Back Yard
Grades 6-8:
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis and Skills:
Chronological and Spatial Thinking:
3. Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems.
Module VIII
Harvesting Today in a Global Forest
Grades 6-8:
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis and Skills:
Historical Interpretation:
2. Students understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including the long-and short-term causal relations.
Grade 8:
8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.
7. Understand the functions and responsibilities of a free press.
Module IX
Fire:Fight, Flight, or Coexistence?
Grades 6-8:
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis and Skills:
Research, Evidence and Point of View:
1. Students frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research.
Historical Interpretation:
3. Students explain the sources of historical continuity and how the combination of ideas and events explains the emergence of new patterns.
Module X
The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S.
Grades 6-8:
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis and Skills:
Historical Interpretation:
2. Students understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including the long-and short-term causal relations.
Module XI
Forest Research: Who, What, Where & Why?
Grades 6-8:
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis and Skills:
Historical Interpretation:
2. Students understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including the long-and short-term causal relations.
3. Students explain the sources of historical continuity and how the combination of ideas and events explains the emergence of new patterns.
