Correlations to Hawaii’s Course of Study
Module I
8000 years of American Prehistory
Grades 6-8:
History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
~ Offer fact-based explanations for change and continuity in history.
Content Standards - Historical Inquiry:
3. Students use the tools and methods of historians to transform learning from memorizing historical data to “doing history.”
~ Differentiate between primary and secondary sources, recognizing the potential and limitations of each.
Content Standard - Historical Perspectives and Interpretations:
4. Students explain historical events with multiple interpretations rather than explanations that point to historical linearity or inevitability.
~ Analyze and accept multiple perspectives and interpretations to avoid historical linearity and inevitability.
Cultural Anthropology:
Content Standard - Cultural Inquiry:
4. Students use the tools and methodology of social scientists to explain and interpret ideas and events.
Module II
From Forest to Farm and Back Again
Grades 6-8:
History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
~ Offer fact-based explanations for change and continuity in history.
Geography:
Content Standard - World in Spatial Terms:
1. Students use geographic representations to organize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments.
~ Interpret and construct geographic representations to explain human and physical distributions and patterns.
Module III
Fueling the Fires of American Industrialization
Grades 6-8:
History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
~ Offer fact-based explanations for change and continuity in history.
Module IV
From Arbor Day to Earth Day
Grades 6-8:
History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
Content Standard - Historical Perspectives and Interpretations:
4. Students explain historical events with multiple interpretations rather than explanations that point to historical linearity or inevitability.
~ Analyze and accept multiple perspectives and interpretations to avoid historical linearity and inevitability.
Political Science/Civics:
Content Standard - Political Analysis:
5. Students understand and use the tools and methods of the political scientist to explain ideas, events, and behaviors and use this knowledge to make reasoned decisions.
~ Explain and apply tools and methods drawn from political science to examine political issues and/or problems.
Module V
A New Profession Takes Seed
Grades 6-8:
History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
Module VI
From Forest to Farm to Urban Forest
Grades 6-8:
History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
~ Offer fact-based explanations for change and continuity in history.
Geography:
Content Standard - World in Spatial Terms:
1. Students use geographic representations to organize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments.
~ Interpret and construct geographic representations to explain human and physical distributions and patterns.
Content Standard - Human Systems:
4. Students analyze how people organize their activities on earth through their analysis of human populations, cultural mosaic, economic interdependence, settlement, and conflict and cooperation.
~ Analyze how urbanization affect places.
Module VII
Trees in Your Own Back Yard
Grades 6-8:
History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
Political Science/Civics:
Content Standard - Citizenship/Participation:
4. Students understand roles, rights (personal, economic, political) and responsibilities of American citizens and exercise them in civic action.
~ Explain the significance of citizenship and participate responsibly for the common good, e.g. select and study an issue or problem and plan and implement a civic action.
Geography:
Content Standard - Environment and Society:
5. Students demonstrate stewardship of earth’s resources through the understanding of society and the physical environment.
~ Analyze the distribution of natural resources, variations of physical systems, natural hazards, and positive and negative environmental impacts in different parts of the world, and engage in an environmental care-taking action/project.
Module VIII
Harvesting Today in a Global Forest
Grades 6-8:
History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
Cultural Anthropology:
Content Standard - Cultural Diversityand Unity:
2. Students understand and respect the myriad of ways that society addresses human needs and wants.
~ Explain conditions and motivations that contribute to conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among different individuals, groups and/or nations, and suggest alternative “win-win” solutions to persistent contemporary and emerging global issues.
Geography:
Content Standard - Human Systems:
4. Students analyze how people organize their activities on earth through their analysis of human populations, cultural mosaic, economic interdependence, settlement, and conflict and cooperation.
~ Analyze how economic activities affect places.
Content Standard - Environment and Society:
5. Students demonstrate stewardship of earth’s resources through the understanding of society and the physical environment.
~ Analyze the distribution of natural resources, variations of physical systems, natural hazards, and positive and negative environmental impacts in different parts of the world, and engage in an environmental care-taking action/project.
Economics:
Content Standard - Economic Interdependence:
3. Students evaluate the costs and benefits of trade among individuals, nations, and organizations to explain why trade results in higher overall levels of production and consumption.
~ Describe and give examples of the economic interdependence among countries around the world.
Module IX
Fire:Fight, Flight, or Coexistence?
Grades 6-8:
History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
Content Standards - Historical Inquiry:
3. Students use the tools and methods of historians to transform learning from memorizing historical data to “doing history.”
~ Frame and answer questions through historical research.
Geography:
Content Standard - Environment and Society:
5. Students demonstrate stewardship of earth’s resources through the understanding of society and the physical environment.
~ Analyze the distribution of natural resources, variations of physical systems, natural hazards, and positive and negative environmental impacts in different parts of the world, and engage in an environmental care-taking action/project.
Module X
The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S.
Grades 6-8:
Content Standards - Historical Inquiry:
3. Students use the tools and methods of historians to transform learning from memorizing historical data to “doing history.”
~ Frame and answer questions through historical research.
Geography:
Content Standard - Environment and Society:
5. Students demonstrate stewardship of earth’s resources through the understanding of society and the physical environment.
~ Analyze the distribution of natural resources, variations of physical systems, natural hazards, and positive and negative environmental impacts in different parts of the world, and engage in an environmental care-taking action/project.
Module XI
Forest Research: Who, What, Where & Why?
Grades 6-8:
History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
