Correlations to Oregon’s Course of Study
Module I
8000 years of American Prehistory
Grade 6:
Geography:
Identify, locate, and compare clothing, recreation, myths, building of dams for flood control, air-conditioned buildings in warm climates, and economic activities related to natural resources (land use). (Relate ancient civilizations to the present.)
Civics and Gov't:
Analyze and evaluate the causes and effects, processes and patterns of human movements, both chosen and forced in the world.
Grade 8:
Geography:
Analyze the characteristics, distribution, and migration of population, in the context of US History.
Identify, locate, and compare clothing, recreation, myths, building of dams for flood control, air-conditioned buildings in warm climates, and economic activities related to natural resources (land use).
Module II
From Forest to Farm and Back Again
Grade 6:
Geography:
Explain the components of most maps (title, scale, legend, grid, and projection). Analyze the characteristics, distribution, and migration of population, in context of history studied.
Explain characteristics and locations of societies including factors responsible for patterns of population; influences of human migration; and geographic factors responsible for the location of economic activities (with a focus on ancient civilizations).
Analyze and evaluate the causes and effects, processes and patterns of human movements, both chosen and forced in the world.
Grade 7:
Geography:
Analyze the characteristics, distribution, and migration of population, in context of history studied.
Grade 8:
Geography:
How the process of urbanization affects the physical environment of a place (disruption of existing vegetation and wildlife habitats, redirection of water flow), the cultural characteristics of a place (greater diversity and proximity of goods and services), and the physical and human characteristics of the surrounding region (relocation of wildlife, growth of suburbs).
Module III
Fueling the Fires of American Industrialization
Grade 6:
Geography:
Identify, locate, and compare clothing, recreation, myths, building of dams for flood control, air-conditioned buildings in warm climates, and economic activities related to natural resources (land use). (Relate ancient civilizations to the present.)
Analyze and evaluate the causes and effects, processes and patterns of human movements, both chosen and forced in the world.
Analyze and give examples of the consequences of human impact on the physical environment, and evaluate ways in which technology influences human capacity to modify the physical environment. Give examples of how both natural and technological hazards have impacted the physical environment and human populations in specific areas of Europe and the Americas.
Grade 7:
Geography:
Identify, locate, and compare clothing, recreation, myths, building of dams for flood control, air-conditioned buildings in warm climates, and economic activities related to natural resources (land use).
Grade 8:
Geography:
How the process of urbanization affects the physical environment of a place (disruption of existing vegetation and wildlife habitats, redirection of water flow), the cultural characteristics of a place (greater diversity and proximity of goods and services), and the physical and human characteristics of the surrounding region (relocation of wildlife, growth of suburbs).
Identify ways people modified the physical environment as the United States developed, and the types of problems that came as a result.
Module IV
From Arbor Day to Earth Day
Grade 6:
Civics and Gov't:
Understand citizen rights in context of history taught and current events.
Analyze and evaluate the causes and effects, processes and patterns of human movements, both chosen and forced in the world.
Historical Skills:
Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.
Grade 7:
Civics and Gov't:
Explain how participation varies in the United States and in the world, and how this compares with other societies in context of history and geography studied.
Historical Skills:
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history. Keep in mind that there may be more than one cause for an event or movement.
Grade 8:
Civics and Gov't:
Understand how government is influenced and changed by support and dissent of individuals, groups, and international organizations.
Module V
A New Profession Takes Seed
Grade 6:
Civics and Gov't:
Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.
Grade 7:
Historical Skills:
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history. Keep in mind that there may be more than one cause for an event or movement.
Grade 8:
Geography:
Identify ways people modified the physical environment as the United States developed, and the types of problems that came as a result.
Module VI
From Forest to Farm to Urban Forest
Grade 6:
Geography:
Explain the components of most maps (title, scale, legend, grid, and projection). Compare different map types (topographic, thematic, etc.) and different map projections, and explain the appropriate use for each.
Grade 7:
Civics and Gov't:
Analyze and evaluate the causes and effects, processes and patterns of human movements, both chosen and forced in the world.
Grade 8:
Geography:
How the process of urbanization affects the physical environment of a place (disruption of existing vegetation and wildlife habitats, redirection of water flow), the cultural characteristics of a place (greater diversity and proximity of goods and services), and the physical and human characteristics of the surrounding region (relocation of wildlife, growth of suburbs).
Identify ways people modified the physical environment as the United States developed, and the types of problems that came as a result.
Module VII
Trees in Your Own Back Yard
Grade 6:
Civics and Gov't:
Understand citizen rights in context of history taught and current events.
Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.
Grade 8:
Civics and Gov't:
Understand how government is influenced and changed by support and dissent of individuals, groups, and international organizations.
Geography:
How the process of urbanization affects the physical environment of a place (disruption of existing vegetation and wildlife habitats, redirection of water flow), the cultural characteristics of a place (greater diversity and proximity of goods and services), and the physical and human characteristics of the surrounding region (relocation of wildlife, growth of suburbs).
Module VIII
Harvesting Today in a Global Forest
Grade 6:
Civics and Gov't:
Explain how countries have interacted with one another in context of period of history studied.
Grade 7:
Civics and Gov't:
Explain how countries have interacted with one another in context of period of history studied.
History:
Draw appropriate conclusions based on data from charts, tables, and graphs.
Grade 8:
Civics and Gov't:
Understand how actions of the U.S. government affect citizens of both the United States and other countries.
Economics:
Identify and give examples of how the United States economy affects citizens of both the United States and other countries.
Module IX
Fire:Fight, Flight, or Coexistence?
Grade 6:
Historical Skills:
Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.
Grade 7:
Historical Skills:
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history. Keep in mind that there may be more than one cause for an event or movement.
Grade 8:
Historical Skills:
Understand relationships among events, issues, and developments in different spheres of human activity (i.e. economic, social, political, cultural).
U.S. History:
Understand and interpret events, issues, and developments within and across eras of U.S. history.
Geography:
Understand how people and the environment are interrelated.
Module X
The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S.
Grade 6:
Historical Skills:
Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.
Grade 7:
Historical Skills:
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history. Keep in mind that there may be more than one cause for an event or movement.
Grade 8:
Historical Skills:
Understand relationships among events, issues, and developments in different spheres of human activity (i.e. economic, social, political, cultural).
U.S. History:
Understand and interpret events, issues, and developments within and across eras of U.S. history.
Geography:
Understand how people and the environment are interrelated.
Module XI
Forest Research: Who, What, Where & Why?
Grade 6:
Historical Skills:
Analyze cause and effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history.
Analyze and give examples of the consequences of human impact on the physical environment, and evaluate ways in which technology influences human capacity to modify the physical environment. Give examples of how both natural and technological hazards have impacted the physical environment and human populations in specific areas of Europe and the Americas.
Grade 7:
Historical Skills:
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causation, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs, and chance in history. Keep in mind that there may be more than one cause for an event or movement.
Grade 8:
Historical Skills:
Understand relationships among events, issues, and developments in different spheres of human activity (i.e. economic, social, political, cultural).
U.S. History:
Understand and interpret events, issues, and developments within and across eras of U.S. history.
Geography:
Understand how people and the environment are interrelated.
