Correlations to North Carolina’s Course of Study
Module I
8000 years of American Prehistory
Grades 6 & 7
Social Studies:
SS Goal 13.02: Describe the diverse cultural connections that have influenced the development of language, art, music, and belief systems in North Carolina and the United States and analyze their role in creating a changing cultural mosaic.
Grade 6, 7, & 8
Info Skills:
Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
Module II
From Forest to Farm and Back Again
Grade 6
Social Studies:
SS Goal 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
SS Goal 13: The learner will describe the historic, economic, and cultural connections among North Carolina, the United States, South America, and Europe.
Grade 7
Social Studies:
SS Goal 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
Math:
Math Goal 1.01: Develop and use ratios, proportions, and percents to solve problems.
Grade 8
Social Studies:
SS Goal 1.05: Describe the factors that led to the founding and settlement of the American colonies including religious persecution, economic opportunity, adventure, and forced migration.
Module III
Fueling the Fires of American Industrialization
Grade 8
Social Studies:
SS Goal 5.04: Identify technological advances, and evaluate their influence on the quality of life in North Carolina.
Grade 6, 7, & 8
Info Skills:
Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
Module IV
From Arbor Day to Earth Day
Grade 8
Social Studies:
SS, Goal 8: The learner will evaluate the impact of demographic, economic, technological, social, and political developments in North Carolina since the 1970's.
Grade 6, 7, & 8
Info Skills:
Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
Module V
A New Profession Takes Seed
Grade 6, 7, & 8
Info Skills:
Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
Module VI
From Forest to Farm to Urban Forest
Grade 6
Social Studies (map skills):
SS Goal 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
Grade 7
Social Studies (map skills):
SS Goal 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
Grade 8
Social Studies:
SS Goal 7: The learner will analyze changes in North Carolina during the postwar period to the 1970's.
SS Goal 8: The learner will evaluate the impact of demographic, economic, technological, social, and political developments in North Carolina since the 1970's.
SS Goal 9: The learner will explore examples of and opportunities for active citizenship, past and present, at the local and state levels.
Science:
Goal 5.05: Use maps, ground truthing and remote sensing to make predictions regarding: changes over time, land use, urban sprawl, and resource management.
Module VII
Trees in Your Own Back Yard
Grade 6
Science:
Goal 7.01: Describe ways in which organisms interact with each other and with non-living parts of the environment.
Grade 7
Science:
Goal 1: The learner will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry.
Grade 8
Social Studies:
SS Goal 9: The learner will explore examples of and opportunities for active citizenship, past and present, at the local and state levels.
Science:
Goal 5.05: Use maps, ground truthing and remote sensing to make predictions regarding: changes over time, land use, urban sprawl, and resource management.
Module VIII
Harvesting Today in a Global Forest
Grade 6, 7, & 8
Skill Competency:
SS 2.05: Transfer information from one medium to another such as written to visual and statistical to written.
SS Goal 3: The learner will acquire strategies to analyze, interpret, create, and use resources and materials.
3.02: Interpret graphs and charts.
3.04: Interpret social and political messages of cartoons.
SS Goal 4: The learner will acquire strategies needed for applying decision-making and problem-solving techniques both orally and in writing to historic, contemporary, and controversial world issues.
4.06: Draw conclusions.
Module IX
Fire:Fight, Flight, or Coexistence?
Grade 6, 7, & 8
Skill Competency:
SS Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
SS Goal 2 (2.05): Transfer information from one medium to another such as written to visual and statistical to written.
SS Goal 3: The learner will acquire strategies to analyze, interpret, create, and use resources and materials.
SS Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
Module X
The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S.
Grade 6, 7, & 8
Skill Competency:
SS Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
SS Goal 2 (2.05): Transfer information from one medium to another such as written to visual and statistical to written.
SS Goal 3: The learner will acquire strategies to analyze, interpret, create, and use resources and materials.
3.02: Interpret graphs and charts.
SS Goal 4: The learner will acquire strategies needed for applying decision-making and problem-solving techniques both orally and in writing to historic, contemporary, and controversial world issues.
4.06: Draw conclusions.
SS Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
Module XI
Forest Research: Who, What, Where & Why?
Grade 6, 7, & 8
Skill Competency:
SS Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
SS Goal 2 (2.05): Transfer information from one medium to another such as written to visual and statistical to written.
SS Goal 3: The learner will acquire strategies to analyze, interpret, create, and use resources and materials.
3.02: Interpret graphs and charts.
SS Goal 4: The learner will acquire strategies needed for applying decision-making and problem-solving techniques both orally and in writing to historic, contemporary, and controversial world issues.
4.06: Draw conclusions.
SS Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
