Correlations to Oklahoma’s Course of Study
Module I
8000 years of American Prehistory
Grade 6 - World Studies:
Standard 1: The student will develop and practice the process skills of social studies.
1. Locate, gather, and analyze information from primary and secondary sources, such as artifacts, diaries, letters, art, music, literature, newspapers, and contemporary media.
Grade 7 - World Geography:
Standard 1: The student will use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to analyze relationships between people, places, and environments of world regions from a spatial perspective.
1. Locate, gather, analyze, and apply information from primary and secondary sources.
Standard 5: The student will examine the interactions of humans and their environment.
2. Evaluate the effects of human modification of and adaptation to the natural environment.
Module II
From Forest to Farm and Back Again
Grade 6 - World Studies:
Standard 1: The student will develop and practice the process skills of social studies.
2. Identify, evaluate, and draw conclusions from different kinds of maps, graphs, charts, diagrams, timelines, and other representations such as photographs and satellite-produced images or computer-based technologies.
Standard 2: The student will use geographic representations to draw conclusions.
2. Compare political, physical, and thematic maps.
Grade 7 - World Geography:
Standard 1: The student will use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to analyze relationships between people, places, and environments of world regions from a spatial perspective.
Standard 4: The student will evaluate the human systems of the world.
5. Evaluate issues of population location, growth, and change, including density, settlement patterns, migration, and availability of resources.
Standard 5: The student will examine the interactions of humans and their environment.
2. Evaluate the effects of human modification of and adaptation to the natural environment.
Grade 8 - United States History:
Standard 1: The student will develop and practice process skills in social studies.
2. Identify, analyze, and interpret primary and secondary sources, such as artifacts, diaries, letters, photographs, art, documents, newspapers, and contemporary media (e.g., television, motion pictures, and computer-based technologies) that reflect events and life in United States history.
Module III
Fueling the Fires of American Industrialization
Grade 7 - World Geography:
Standard 4: The student will evaluate the human systems of the world.
5. Evaluate issues of population location, growth, and change, including density, settlement patterns, migration, and availability of resources.
Standard 5: The student will examine the interactions of humans and their environment.
2. Evaluate the effects of human modification of and adaptation to the natural environment.
Grade 8 - United States History:
Standard 1: The student will develop and practice process skills in social studies.
1. Develop and apply cause and effect reasoning and chronological thinking to past, present, and potential future situations.
2. Identify, analyze, and interpret primary and secondary sources, such as artifacts, diaries, letters, photographs, art, documents, newspapers, and contemporary media (e.g., television, motion pictures, and computer-based technologies) that reflect events and life in United States history.
Standard 6: The student will examine and describe the economy of the United States from 1801 to 1877.
1. Describe the economic growth and changes in the United States in science, technology, energy, manufacturing, entrepreneurship, and transportation, including geographic factors in the location and development of United States industries and centers of urbanization (e.g., Industrial Revolution).
Module IV
From Arbor Day to Earth Day
Grade 8 - United States History:
Standard 1: The student will develop and practice process skills in social studies.
1. Develop and apply cause and effect reasoning and chronological thinking to past, present, and potential future situations.
Module V
A New Profession Takes Seed
Grade 7 - World Geography:
Standard 5: The student will examine the interactions of humans and their environment.
2. Evaluate the effects of human modification of and adaptation to the natural environment.
Grade 8 - United States History:
Standard 1: The student will develop and practice process skills in social studies.
1. Develop and apply cause and effect reasoning and chronological thinking to past, present, and potential future situations.
2. Identify, analyze, and interpret primary and secondary sources, such as artifacts, diaries, letters, photographs, art, documents, newspapers, and contemporary media (e.g., television, motion pictures, and computer-based technologies) that reflect events and life in United States history.
Module VI
From Forest to Farm to Urban Forest
Grade 6 - World Studies:
Standard 1: The student will develop and practice the process skills of social studies.
2. Identify, evaluate, and draw conclusions from different kinds of maps, graphs, charts, diagrams, timelines, and other representations such as photographs and satellite-produced images or computer-based technologies.
Standard 2: The student will use geographic representations to draw conclusions.
2. Compare political, physical, and thematic maps.
Grade 7 - World Geography:
Standard 1: The student will use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to analyze relationships between people, places, and environments of world regions from a spatial perspective.
3. Construct and use maps, globes, graphs, charts, models, and databases to analyze spatial distributions and patterns.
Standard 4: The student will evaluate the human systems of the world.
5. Evaluate issues of population location, growth, and change, including density, settlement patterns, migration, and availability of resources.
Standard 5: The student will examine the interactions of humans and their environment.
2. Evaluate the effects of human modification of and adaptation to the natural environment.
Module VII
Trees in Your Own Back Yard
Grade 7 - World Geography:
Standard 1: The student will use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to analyze relationships between people, places, and environments of world regions from a spatial perspective.
3. Construct and use maps, globes, graphs, charts, models, and databases to analyze spatial distributions and patterns.
Standard 5: The student will examine the interactions of humans and their environment.
2. Evaluate the effects of human modification of and adaptation to the natural environment.
Module VIII
Harvesting Today in a Global Forest
Grade 6 - World Studies:
Standard 1: The student will develop and practice the process skills of social studies.
3. Interpret information from a broad selection of research materials such as encyclopedias, almanacs, dictionaries, atlases and cartoons.
Standard 4: The student will compare and contrast political and economic systems.
2. Identify and describe major economic systems and the role of governmental involvement and individual decision-making within such systems.
Grade 7 - World Geography:
Standard 4: The student will evaluate the human systems of the world.
2. Explain patterns and processes of global economic interdependence (e.g., developed and developing countries, economic activities, and world trade).
Standard 5: The student will examine the interactions of humans and their environment.
1. Identify and describe the relationship between the distribution of major natural resources (e.g., wood products) and developed and developing countries.
2. Evaluate the effects of human modification of and adaptation to the natural environment.
Module IX
Fire:Fight, Flight, or Coexistence?
Grade 7 - World Geography:
Standard 5: The student will examine the interactions of humans and their environment.
2. Evaluate the effects of human modification of and adaptation to the natural environment.
Module X
The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S.
Grade 7 - World Geography:
Standard 1: The student will use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to analyze relationships between people, places, and environments of world regions from a spatial perspective.
3. Construct and use maps, globes, graphs, charts, models, and databases to analyze spatial distributions and patterns.
Standard 5: The student will examine the interactions of humans and their environment.
2. Evaluate the effects of human modification of and adaptation to the natural environment.
Grade 8 - United States History:
Standard 5: The student will examine the significance of and describe the institutions and practices of government created during the American Revolution and how they were revised between 1787 and 1815 to create the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
2. Explain the dispute over the western lands and how it was resolved through the Northwest Ordinance, and describe the economic issues arising out of the Revolution and Shays’ Rebellion.
Standard 10: The student will evaluate and explain the westward expansion of the United States from 1801 to 1877.
9. Evaluate the impact of the Homestead Act of 1862 and the resulting movement westward to “free land”.
Module XI
Forest Research: Who, What, Where & Why?
Grade 7 - World Geography:
Standard 5: The student will examine the interactions of humans and their environment.
2. Evaluate the effects of human modification of and adaptation to the natural environment.
