Correlations to North Dakota’s Course of Study
Module I
8000 years of American Prehistory
Grade 6
Standard 1: Skills and Resources :
Resources - 6.1.1: Students use a variety of primary and secondary resources (e.g., magazines, journals, artifacts, interviews) to gather and interpret information
Standard 2: Important Historical Events:
World History: Prehistory to Renaissance - 6.2.1: Students investigate and explain scientific evidence and discoveries related to early hominid development (e.g., evidence about daily life, major anthropological discoveries and their locations, key people associated with major anthropological discoveries).
World History: Prehistory to Renaissance - 6.2.2: Students identify the features and accomplishments (e.g., development of tools, use of fire, adaptation to the natural environment, location in continental regions) of hunter-gatherer communities.
World History: Prehistory to Renaissance - 6.2.3: Students trace the emergence of agriculture and its effect (e.g., climate changes, the impact of irrigation techniques, the domestication of plants and animals) on early human communities.
Grade 7
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 7.1.7: Students interpret and analyze primary and secondary sources (e.g., artifacts, journals, interviews, books, magazines, photographs) to understand people, places, and environments.
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Human Geography - 7.5.5: Students analyze how human modifications affect the physical environment (e.g., damming of rivers, pollution, urbanization).
Grade 8
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 8.1.2: Students apply various primary and secondary resources (e.g., historical maps, diaries, speeches, pictures, charts, graphs, diagrams) to acquire, analyze, and evaluate information.
Module II
From Forest to Farm and Back Again
Grade 6
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Geographic Tools - 6.1.3: Students use geographic tools (e.g., maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, almanacs, GIS) and concepts to locate and describe physical features of places.
Grade 7
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Map Skills - 7.1.1: Students explain different uses of maps (e.g., political, physical, topographical, thematic, cartograms).
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Human Geography - 7.5.5: Students analyze how human modifications affect the physical environment (e.g., damming of rivers, pollution, urbanization).
Grade 8
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Map Skills - 8.1.1: Students interpret current thematic maps to identify where people live and work, and how land is used.
Resources - 8.1.2: Students apply various primary and secondary resources (e.g., historical maps, diaries, speeches, pictures, charts, graphs, diagrams) to acquire, analyze, and evaluate information.
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Human Geography - 8.5.2: Students describe the characteristics, distribution, and effects of human migration within the United States during different time periods.
Module III
Fueling the Fires of American Industrialization
Grade 7
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 7.1.7: Students interpret and analyze primary and secondary sources (e.g., artifacts, journals, interviews, books, magazines, photographs) to understand people, places, and environments.
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Human Geography - 7.5.5: Students analyze how human modifications affect the physical environment (e.g., damming of rivers, pollution, urbanization).
Grade 8
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 8.1.2: Students apply various primary and secondary resources (e.g., historical maps, diaries, speeches, pictures, charts, graphs, diagrams) to acquire, analyze, and evaluate information.
Standard 3: Economic Concepts:
Resources - 8.3.2: Students describe how technological advances and industrialization impacted regions of the United States prior to the Civil War.
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Human Geography - 8.5.2: Students describe the characteristics, distribution, and effects of human migration within the United States during different time periods (e.g., industrialization).
Module IV
From Arbor Day to Earth Day
Grade 7
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 7.1.8: Students apply research skills (e.g., ask questions, acquire, organize, and analyze information) to answer questions.
Standard 4: Government and Citizenship:
Government Systems - 7.4.2: Students explain how people create and change structures of power (e.g., force, elections, wars, reactions to economic conditions and natural disasters).
Standard 6: Human Development and Behavior:
Culture - 7.6.1: Students identify principles governing individual and group behavior (e.g., cooperation, collaboration, power, conflict) within social dynamics (e.g., political).
Culture - 7.6.2: Students explain how individuals and institutions influence one another (e.g., social processes, peaceful and violent demonstrations, picketing, protests, petitions, group affiliation, citizenship, voting).
Module V
A New Profession Takes Seed
Grade 7
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Human Geography - 7.5.5: Students analyze how human modifications affect the physical environment (e.g., damming of rivers, pollution, urbanization).
Grade 8
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 8.1.2: Students apply various primary and secondary resources (e.g., historical maps, diaries, speeches, pictures, charts, graphs, diagrams) to acquire, analyze, and evaluate information.
Module VI
From Forest to Farm to Urban Forest
Grade 6
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Geographic Tools - 6.1.3: Students use geographic tools (e.g., maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, almanacs, GIS) and concepts to locate and describe physical features of places.
Grade 7
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Map Skills - 7.1.1: Students explain different uses of maps (e.g., political, physical, topographical, thematic, cartograms).
Map Skills - 7.1.6: Students use maps to find location, calculate scale, and distinguish other geographic relationships (e.g., population density)
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Physical Geography - 7.5.2: Students use geographic tools [e.g., maps, graphs, charts] to interpret the past (e.g., migrations of people, goods, and ideas), understand the present (e.g., demographic changes, resource distribution), and plan for the future.
Human Geography - 7.5.5: Students analyze how human modifications affect the physical environment (e.g., damming of rivers, pollution, urbanization).
Grade 8
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Map Skills - 8.1.1: Students interpret current thematic maps to identify where people live and work, and how land is used.
Resources - 8.1.2: Students apply various primary and secondary resources (e.g., historical maps, diaries, speeches, pictures, charts, graphs, diagrams) to acquire, analyze, and evaluate information.
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Human Geography - 8.5.2: Students describe the characteristics, distribution, and effects of human migration within the United States during different time periods (e.g., urbanization).
Human Geography - 8.5.3: Students compare human characteristics (e.g., population distribution, land use) of places and regions.
Module VII
Trees in Your Own Back Yard
Grade 6
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Geographic Tools - 6.1.3: Students use geographic tools (e.g., maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, almanacs, GIS) and concepts to locate and describe physical features of places.
Grade 7
Standard 2: Important Historical Events:
Historical and Current Events – Regional/Global - 7.2.2: Students identify events and issues (e.g., natural resources, energy resources, wars/conflicts, religion) affecting the world today.
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Physical Geography - 7.5.2: Students use geographic tools [e.g., maps, graphs, charts] to interpret the past (e.g., migrations of people, goods, and ideas), understand the present (e.g., demographic changes, resource distribution), and plan for the future.
Human Geography - 7.5.5: Students analyze how human modifications affect the physical environment (e.g., damming of rivers, pollution, urbanization).
Human Geography - 7.5.6: Students explain how physical systems affect human systems (e.g., Where do people live and why?)
Grade 8
Government and Citizenship:
Citizenship: 8.4.1: Students explain the connections between the rights and responsibilities of citizenship (e.g., voting and staying informed on issues; having rights and respecting the rights of others).
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Human Geography - 8.5.3: Students compare human characteristics (e.g., population distribution, land use) of places and regions.
Module VIII
Harvesting Today in a Global Forest
Grade 7
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 7.1.8: Students apply research skills (e.g., ask questions, acquire, organize, and analyze information) to answer questions.
Standard 2: Important Historical Events:
Historical and Current Events – Regional/Global - 7.2.1: Students identify major historical events and issues (e.g., conflicts and resolutions, natural resources) within regions of the world and their impact.
Historical and Current Events – Regional/Global - 7.2.2: Students identify events and issues (e.g., natural resources, energy resources, wars/conflicts, religion) affecting the world today.
Standard 3: Economic Concepts:
Global Interdependence - 7.3.3: Students explain patterns and networks (e.g., patterns of trade, human migration, cultural and political alliances/sanctions) of economic and global interdependence in a changing world.
Module IX
Fire:Fight, Flight, or Coexistence?
Grade 6
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Geographic Tools - 6.1.3: Students use geographic tools (e.g., maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, almanacs, GIS) and concepts to locate and describe physical features of places.
Grade 7
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 7.1.8: Students apply research skills (e.g., ask questions, acquire, organize, and analyze information) to answer questions.
Standard 2: Important Historical Events:
Historical and Current Events – Regional/Global - 7.2.2: Students identify events and issues (e.g., natural resources, energy resources, wars/conflicts, religion) affecting the world today.
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Human Geography - 7.5.5: Students analyze how human modifications affect the physical environment (e.g., damming of rivers, pollution, urbanization).
Grade 8
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 8.1.2: Students apply various primary and secondary resources (e.g., historical maps, diaries, speeches, pictures, charts, graphs, diagrams) to acquire, analyze, and evaluate information.
Module X
The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S.
Grade 6
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Geographic Tools - 6.1.3: Students use geographic tools (e.g., maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, almanacs, GIS) and concepts to locate and describe physical features of places.
Grade 7
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 7.1.8: Students apply research skills (e.g., ask questions, acquire, organize, and analyze information) to answer questions.
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Human Geography - 7.5.5: Students analyze how human modifications affect the physical environment (e.g., damming of rivers, pollution, urbanization).
Module XI
Forest Research: Who, What, Where & Why?
Grade 7
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 7.1.8: Students apply research skills (e.g., ask questions, acquire, organize, and analyze information) to answer questions.
Standard 5: Concepts of Geography:
Human Geography - 7.5.5: Students analyze how human modifications affect the physical environment (e.g., damming of rivers, pollution, urbanization).
Human Geography - 7.5.6: Students explain how physical systems affect human systems.
Human Geography - 7.5.7: Students explain changes (e.g., the value placed on land, water, wind energy, and fossil fuels) that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
Grade 8
Standard 1: Skills and Resources:
Resources - 8.1.2: Students apply various primary and secondary resources (e.g., historical maps, diaries, speeches, pictures, charts, graphs, diagrams) to acquire, analyze, and evaluate information.
Standard 3: Economic Concepts:
Resources - 8.3.2: Students describe how technological advances and industrialization impacted regions of the United States prior to the Civil War.
