Correlations to New York’s Course of Study
Module I
8000 years of American Prehistory
Intermediate Level :
Social Studies:
Std 1, Key Idea 4: Consider the sources of historic documents, narratives, or artifacts and evaluate their reliability.
Std 1, Key Idea 4: Understand how different experiences, beliefs, values, traditions, and motives cause individuals and groups to interpret historic events and issues from different perspectives
Std 2, Key Idea 1: interpret and analyze documents and artifacts related to significant developments and events in world history.
Std 2, Key Idea 4: Analyze different interpretations of important events and themes in world history and explain the various frames of reference expressed by different historians.
Module II
From Forest to Farm and Back Again
Intermediate Level:
Social Studies:
Std 3, Key Idea 1: Understand the characteristics, functions, and applications of maps, globes, aerial and other photographs, satellite-produced images, and models (Taken from National Geography Standards, 1994).
Std 3, Key Idea 1: Describe the relationships between people and environments and the connections between people and places.
Std 3, Key Idea 2: Interpret geographic information by synthesizing data and developing conclusions and generalizations about geographic issues and problems.
Module III
Fueling the Fires of American Industrialization
Intermediate Level:
Social Studies:
Std 1, Key Idea 2: Investigate key turning points in New York State and United States history and explain why these events or developments are significant.
Std 2, Key Idea 2: Study about major turning points in world history by investigating the causes and other factors that brought about change and the results of these changes.
Module IV
From Arbor Day to Earth Day
Intermediate Level :
Social Studies:
Std 1, Key Idea 1: Explore the meaning of American culture by identifying the key ideas, beliefs, and patterns of behavior, and traditions that help define it and unite all Americans.
Std 1, Key Idea 3: Gather and organize information about the important achievements and contributions of individuals and groups living in New York State and the United States.
Std 5, Key Idea 2: Understand how civic values reflected in United States and New York State Constitutions have been implemented through laws and practices.
Std 5, Key Idea 3: Discuss the role of an informed citizen in today's changing world.
Module V
A New Profession Takes Seed
Intermediate Level:
Social Studies:
Std 1, Key Idea 2: Investigate key turning points in New York State and United States history and explain why these events or developments are significant.
Std 2, Key Idea 2: Study about major turning points in world history by investigating the causes and other factors that brought about change and the results of these changes.
Module VI
From Forest to Farm to Urban Forest
Intermediate Level:
Social Studies:
Std 3, Key Idea 1: Understand the characteristics, functions, and applications of maps, globes, aerial and other photographs, satellite-produced images, and models (Taken from National Geography Standards, 1994).
Std 3, Key Idea 1: Investigate why people and places are located where they are located and what patterns can be perceived in these locations.
Std 3, Key Idea 1: Describe the relationships between people and environments and the connections between people and places.
Std 3, Key Idea 2: Present geographic information in a variety of formats, including maps, tables, graphs, charts, diagrams, and computer-generated models.
Std 3, Key Idea 2: Interpret geographic information by synthesizing data and developing conclusions and generalizations about geographic issues and problems.
Module VII
Trees in Your Own Back Yard
Intermediate Level :
Social Studies:
Std 5, Key Idea 2: Understand how civic values reflected in United States and New York State Constitutions have been implemented through laws and practices.
Std 5, Key Idea 3: Discuss the role of an informed citizen in today's changing world.
Std 5, Key Idea 4: Participate in negotiation and compromise to resolve classroom, school, and community disagreements and problems.
Module VIII
Harvesting Today in a Global Forest
Intermediate Level :
Social Studies:
Std 1, Key Idea 2: Understand the relationship between the relative importance of United States domestic and foreign policies over time.
Std 1, Key Idea 2: Analyze the role played by the United States in international politics, past and present.
Std 4, Key Idea 1: Explain how societies and nations attempt to satisfy their basic needs and wants by utilizing scarce capital, natural, and human resources
Std 4, Key Idea 1: Understand how scarcity requires people and nations to make choices which involve costs and future considerations.
Std 4, Key Idea 1: Understand how people in the United States and throughout the world are both producers and consumers of goods and services.
Std 4, Key Idea 1: Explain how nations throughout the world have joined with one another to promote economic development and growth.
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Module IX
Fire:Fight, Flight, or Coexistence?
Intermediate Level :
Social Studies:
Std 3, Key Idea 2: Use a number of research skills (e.g., computer databases, periodicals, census reports, maps, standard reference works, interviews, surveys) to locate and gather geographical information about issues and problems (Adapted from National Geography Standards, 1994).
English:
Std 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
Technology Education:
Std 5, Key Idea: Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.
Module X
The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S.
Intermediate Level :
Social Studies:
Std 3, Key Idea 1: Describe the relationships between people and environments and the connections between people and places
Std 3, Key Idea 2: Use a number of research skills (e.g., computer databases, periodicals, census reports, maps, standard reference works, interviews, surveys) to locate and gather geographical information about issues and problems (Adapted from National Geography Standards, 1994).
Std 4, Key Idea 1: Explain how societies and nations attempt to satisfy their basic needs and wants by utilizing scarce capital, natural, and human resources
Std 4, Key Idea 1: Understand how scarcity requires people and nations to make choices which involve costs and future considerations.
English:
Std 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
Module XI
Forest Research: Who, What, Where & Why?
Intermediate Level :
Social Studies:
Std 3, Key Idea 1: Describe the relationships between people and environments and the connections between people and places
Std 3, Key Idea 2: Use a number of research skills (e.g., computer databases, periodicals, census reports, maps, standard reference works, interviews, surveys) to locate and gather geographical information about issues and problems (Adapted from National Geography Standards, 1994).
Std 4, Key Idea 1: Explain how societies and nations attempt to satisfy their basic needs and wants by utilizing scarce capital, natural, and human resources
Std 4, Key Idea 1: Understand how scarcity requires people and nations to make choices which involve costs and future considerations.
English:
Std 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
