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.