Correlations to New Mexico’s Course of Study
Module I
8000 years of American Prehistory
Grades 6-8 - History:
Standard 1 SS:
C. World: Compare and contrast major historical eras, events, and figures from ancient civilizations to the Age of Exploration.
D. Skills: Research historical events and people from a variety of perspectives.
Module II
From Forest to Farm and Back Again
Grades 6-8 - Geography:
Standard 1 SS:
A. Analyze and evaluate the characteristics and purposes of geographic tools, knowledge, skills and perspectives and apply them to explain the past, present, and future in terms of patterns, events, and issues.
B. Explain the physical and human characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define regions, their relationships with other regions, and their patterns of change.
C. Understand how human behavior impacts man-made and natural environments, recognizes past and present results, and predicts potential changes.
E. Understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, and their interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.
F. Understand the effects of interactions between human and natural systems in terms of changes in meaning, use, distribution, and relative importance of resources.
Grades 6-8 - History:
Standard 1 SS:
B. United States: Analyze and interpret major eras, events, and individuals from the periods of exploration and colonization through the Civil War and Reconstruction in United States history.
Module III
Fueling the Fires of American Industrialization
Grades 6-8 - Geography:
Standard 1 SS:
B. Explain the physical and human characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define regions, their relationships with other regions, and their patterns of change.
C. Understand how human behavior impacts man-made and natural environments, recognizes past and present results, and predicts potential changes.
Grades 6-8 - History:
Standard 1 SS:
B. United States: Analyze and interpret major eras, events, and individuals from the periods of exploration and colonization through the Civil War and Reconstruction in United States history.
Module IV
From Arbor Day to Earth Day
Grades 6-8 - History:
Standard 1 SS:
B. United States: Analyze and interpret major eras, events, and individuals from the periods of exploration and colonization through the Civil War and Reconstruction in United States history.
D. Skills: Research historical events and people from a variety of perspectives.
Module V
A New Profession Takes Seed
Grades 6-8 - History:
Standard 1 SS:
B. United States: Analyze and interpret major eras, events, and individuals from the periods of exploration and colonization through the Civil War and Reconstruction in United States history.
Module VI
From Forest to Farm to Urban Forest
Grades 6-8 - Geography:
Standard 1 SS:
A. Analyze and evaluate the characteristics and purposes of geographic tools, knowledge, skills and perspectives and apply them to explain the past, present, and future in terms of patterns, events, and issues.
B. Explain the physical and human characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define regions, their relationships with other regions, and their patterns of change.
C. Understand how human behavior impacts man-made and natural environments, recognizes past and present results, and predicts potential changes.
E. Understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, and their interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.
F. Understand the effects of interactions between human and natural systems in terms of changes in meaning, use, distribution, and relative importance of resources.
Module VII
Trees in Your Own Back Yard
Grades 6-8 - Civics and Government:
Standard 1 SS
D. Explain how individuals have rights and responsibilities as members of social groups, families, schools, communities, states, tribes, and countries.
Grades 6-8 - Geography:
Standard 1 SS:
A. Analyze and evaluate the characteristics and purposes of geographic tools, knowledge, skills and perspectives and apply them to explain the past, present, and future in terms of patterns, events, and issues.
C. Understand how human behavior impacts man-made and natural environments, recognizes past and present results, and predicts potential changes.
F. Understand the effects of interactions between human and natural systems in terms of changes in meaning, use, distribution, and relative importance of resources.
Module VIII
Harvesting Today in a Global Forest
Grades 6-8 - Geography:
Standard 1 SS:
B. Explain the physical and human characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define regions, their relationships with other regions, and their patterns of change.
F. Understand the effects of interactions between human and natural systems in terms of changes in meaning, use, distribution, and relative importance of resources.
Module IX
Fire:Fight, Flight, or Coexistence?
Grades 6-8 - Geography:
Standard 1 SS:
B. Explain the physical and human characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define regions, their relationships with other regions, and their patterns of change.
F. Understand the effects of interactions between human and natural systems in terms of changes in meaning, use, distribution, and relative importance of resources.
Grades 6-8 - History:
Standard 1 SS:
D. Skills: Research historical events and people from a variety of perspectives.
Module X
The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S.
Grades 6-8 - Geography:
Standard 1 SS:
B. Explain the physical and human characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define regions, their relationships with other regions, and their patterns of change.
C. Understand how human behavior impacts man-made and natural environments, recognizes past and present results, and predicts potential changes.
F. Understand the effects of interactions between human and natural systems in terms of changes in meaning, use, distribution, and relative importance of resources.
Grades 6-8 - History:
Standard 1 SS:
D. Skills: Research historical events and people from a variety of perspectives.
Module XI
Forest Research: Who, What, Where & Why?
Grades 6-8 - Geography:
Standard 1 SS:
C. Understand how human behavior impacts man-made and natural environments, recognizes past and present results, and predicts potential changes.
F. Understand the effects of interactions between human and natural systems in terms of changes in meaning, use, distribution, and relative importance of resources.
Grades 6-8 - History:
Standard 1 SS:
D. Skills: Research historical events and people from a variety of perspectives.
