Correlations to Pennsylvania’s Course of Study
Module I
8000 years of American Prehistory
Environment and Ecology
4.8. Humans and the Environment:
4.8.7. Grade 7 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Describe how the development of civilization relates to the environment.
B. Explain how people use natural resources.
History
8.1. Historical Analysis and Skills Development:
8.1.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Understand chronological thinking and distinguish between past, present and future time.
B. Explain and analyze historical sources.
C. Explain the fundamentals of historical interpretation.
D. Describe and explain historical research.
8.1.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Analyze chronological thinking.
B. Analyze and interpret historical sources.
C. Analyze the fundamentals of historical interpretation.
D. Analyze and interprethistorical research.
8.4. World History:
8.4.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Identify and explain important documents, material artifacts and historic sites in world history.
8.4.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Analyze historical documents, material artifacts and historic sites important to world history before 1500.
Module II
From Forest to Farm and Back Again
Environment and Ecology
4.4. Agriculture and Society:
4.4.7. Grade 7 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Explain society’s standard of living in relation to agriculture.
4.4.10. Grade 10: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Describe the importance of agriculture to society.
4.8. Humans and the Environment:
4.8.7. Grade 7 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
C. Explain how human activities may affect local, regional and national environments.
Geography
7.3 The Human Characteristics of Places and Regions:
7.3.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Describe the human characteristics of places and regions by their population characteristics.
C. Describe the human characteristics of places and regions by their settlement characteristics.
7.3.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Describe the human characteristics of places and regions by their population characteristics.
C. Explain the human characteristics of places and regions by their settlement characteristics.
7.4.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Explain the impacts of people on physical systems.
History
8.1. Historical Analysis and Skills Development:
8.1.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Explain and analyze historical sources.
8.1.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support ever y student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Analyze and interpret historical sources.
8.3. United States History:
8.3.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
C. Explain how continuity and change has influenced United States history from Beginnings to 1824.
Module III
Fueling the Fires of American Industrialization
Environment and Ecology
4.8. Humans and the Environment:
4.8.7. Grade 7 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
C. Explain how human activities may affect local, regional and national environments.
History
8.1. Historical Analysis and Skills Development:
8.1.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Explain and analyze historical sources.
8.1.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Analyze and interpret historical sources.
8.3. United States History:
8.3.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
C. Analyze how continuity and change has influenced United States history from 1787 to 1914.
Module IV
From Arbor Day to Earth Day
Civics and Government
5.2. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship:
5.2.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Compare rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
5.3. How Government Works:
5.3.9. Grade 9 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
H. Analyze how interest groups provide opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process.
History
8.3. United States History:
8.3.9. Grade 9 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Identify and analyze the political and cultural contributions of individuals and groups to United States history from 1787 to 1914.
Module V
A New Profession Takes Seed
History
8.1. Historical Analysis and Skills Development:
8.1.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Understand chronological thinking and distinguish between past, present and future time.
B. Explain and analyze historical sources.
Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Analyze chronological thinking.
B. An8.1.9. Grade 9: alyze and interpret historical sources.
Module VI
From Forest to Farm to Urban Forest
Environment and Ecology
4.8. Humans and the Environment:
4.8.7. Grade 7: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
C. Explain how human activities may affect local, regional and national environments.
4.8.10. Grade 10: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
C. Analyze how human activities may cause changes in an ecosystem.
Geography
7.3 The Human Characteristics of Places and Regions:
7.3.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Describe the human characteristics of places and regions by their population characteristics.
D. Describe the human characteristics of places and regions by their economic activities.
7.3.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Describe the human characteristics of places and regions by their population characteristics.
D. Describe the human characteristics of places and regions by their economic activities.
7.4.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Explain the impacts of people on physical systems.
History
8.1. Historical Analysis and Skills Development:
8.1.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Explain and analyze historical sources.
8.1.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Analyze and interpret historical sources.
Module VII
Trees in Your Own Back Yard
Civics and Government
5.2. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship:
5.2.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Compare rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
E. Identify examples of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
G. Explain the importance of participating in government and civic life.
5.2.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Analyze citizens’ rights and responsibilities in local, state and national government.
G. Analyze political and civic participation in government and society.
5.3. How Government Works:
5.3.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
C. Explain how government actions affect citizens' daily lives.
Geography
7.3 The Human Characteristics of Places and Regions:
7.3.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Describe the human characteristics of places and regions by their population characteristics.
7.3.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Describe the human characteristics of places and regions by their population characteristics.
Module VIII
Harvesting Today in a Global Forest
Environment and Ecology
4.8. Humans and the Environment:
4.8.10. Grade 10: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
D. Explain how the concept of supply and demand affects the environment.
Civics and Government
5.4. How International Relationships Function:
5.4.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
E. Explain how nations work together on common environmental problems, natural disasters and trade.
5.4.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Explain the role of the United States in world affairs.
E. Explain the development and the role of the United Nations and other international organizations, both governmental and non-governmental.
Economics
6.3. Scarcity and Choice:
6.3.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potenti al and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Analyze how unlimited wants and limited resources affect decision making.
6.4. Economic Interdependence:
6.4.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
C. Identify and define imports, exports, inter-regional trade and international trade.
6.4.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
C. Explain why governments sometimes restrict or subsidize trade.
History
8.1. Historical Analysis and Skills Development:
8.1.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Explain and analyze historical sources.
8.1.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Analyze and interpret historical sources.
Module IX
Fire:Fight, Flight, or Coexistence?
Environment and Ecology
4.8. Humans and the Environment:
4.8.10. Grade 10: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
C. Analyze how human activities may cause changes in an ecosystem.
Geography
7.4 The Interactions Between People and Places:
7.4.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Describe the impacts of physical systems on people.
7.4.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Explain the impacts of physical systems on people.
History
8.1. Historical Analysis and Skills Development:
8.1.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Explain and analyze historical sources.
8.1.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Analyze and interpret historical sources.
Module X
The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S.
Environment and Ecology
4.1. Watersheds and Wetlands:
4.1.7. Grade 7 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Understand the role of the watershed.
4.1.10. Grade 10 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
E. Identify and describe natural and human events on watersheds.
4.6. Ecosystems and their Interactions:
4.6.7. Grade 7 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Explain the concepts of cycles.
4.9. Environmental Laws and Regulations:
4.9.10. Grade 10 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Explain why environmental laws and regulations are developed and enacted.
• Explain the positive and negative impacts associated with passing
environmental laws and regulations.
• Understand conflicting rights of property owners and environmental
laws and regulations.
History
8.1. Historical Analysis and Skills Development:
8.1.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Explain and analyze historical sources.
8.1.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Analyze and interpret historical sources.
Module XI
Forest Research: Who, What, Where & Why?
Environment and Ecology
4.2. Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources:
4.2.10. Grade 10 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
B. Evaluate factors affecting availability of natural resources (Analyze technologies that affect the use of our natural resources).
4.5. Integrated Pest Management:
4.5.7. Grade 7 : Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Explain benefits and harmful effects of pests.
History
8.1. Historical Analysis and Skills Development:
8.1.6. Grade 6: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Understand chronological thinking and distinguish between past, present and future time.
8.1.9. Grade 9: Pennsylvania’s public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
A. Analyze chronological thinking.
