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to National History and Social Studies Standards HI Department of Education Social Studies Standards | | Module I 8000 years of American Prehistory | | Grades 6-8: History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
~ Offer fact-based explanations for change and continuity in history. Content Standards - Historical Inquiry:
3. Students use the tools and methods of historians to transform learning from memorizing historical data to “doing history.”
~ Differentiate between primary and secondary sources, recognizing the potential and limitations of each. Content Standard - Historical Perspectives and Interpretations:
4. Students explain historical events with multiple interpretations rather than explanations that point to historical linearity or inevitability.
~ Analyze and accept multiple perspectives and interpretations to avoid historical linearity and inevitability. Cultural Anthropology:
Content Standard - Cultural Inquiry:
4. Students use the tools and methodology of social scientists to explain and interpret ideas and events.
| | | | Module II From Forest to Farm and Back Again | | Grades 6-8: History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
~ Offer fact-based explanations for change and continuity in history. Geography:
Content Standard - World in Spatial Terms:
1. Students use geographic representations to organize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments.
~ Interpret and construct geographic representations to explain human and physical distributions and patterns. | | | | Module III Fueling the Fires of American Industrialization | | Grades 6-8: History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
~ Offer fact-based explanations for change and continuity in history.
| | | | Module IV From Arbor Day to Earth Day | | Grades 6-8: History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies. Content Standard - Historical Perspectives and Interpretations:
4. Students explain historical events with multiple interpretations rather than explanations that point to historical linearity or inevitability.
~ Analyze and accept multiple perspectives and interpretations to avoid historical linearity and inevitability. Political Science/Civics:
Content Standard - Political Analysis:
5. Students understand and use the tools and methods of the political scientist to explain ideas, events, and behaviors and use this knowledge to make reasoned decisions.
~ Explain and apply tools and methods drawn from political science to examine political issues and/or problems.
| | | | Module V A New Profession Takes Seed | | Grades 6-8: History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
| | | | Module VI From Forest to Farm to Urban Forest | | Grades 6-8: History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
~ Offer fact-based explanations for change and continuity in history. Geography:
Content Standard - World in Spatial Terms:
1. Students use geographic representations to organize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments.
~ Interpret and construct geographic representations to explain human and physical distributions and patterns. Content Standard - Human Systems:
4. Students analyze how people organize their activities on earth through their analysis of human populations, cultural mosaic, economic interdependence, settlement, and conflict and cooperation.
~ Analyze how urbanization affect places.
| | | | Module VII Trees in Your Own Back Yard | | Grades 6-8: History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies. Political Science/Civics:
Content Standard - Citizenship/Participation:
4. Students understand roles, rights (personal, economic, political) and responsibilities of American citizens and exercise them in civic action.
~ Explain the significance of citizenship and participate responsibly for the common good, e.g. select and study an issue or problem and plan and implement a civic action. Geography:
Content Standard - Environment and Society:
5. Students demonstrate stewardship of earth’s resources through the understanding of society and the physical environment.
~ Analyze the distribution of natural resources, variations of physical systems, natural hazards, and positive and negative environmental impacts in different parts of the world, and engage in an environmental care-taking action/project
| | | | Module VIII Living in a Global Forest | Grades 6-8: History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies. Cultural Anthropology:
Content Standard - Cultural Diversityand Unity:
2. Students understand and respect the myriad of ways that society addresses human needs and wants.
~ Explain conditions and motivations that contribute to conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among different individuals, groups and/or nations, and suggest alternative “win-win” solutions to persistent contemporary and emerging global issues. Geography:
Content Standard - Human Systems:
4. Students analyze how people organize their activities on earth through their analysis of human populations, cultural mosaic, economic interdependence, settlement, and conflict and cooperation.
~ Analyze how economic activities affect places. Content Standard - Environment and Society:
5. Students demonstrate stewardship of earth’s resources through the understanding of society and the physical environment.
~ Analyze the distribution of natural resources, variations of physical systems, natural hazards, and positive and negative environmental impacts in different parts of the world, and engage in an environmental care-taking action/project Economics:
Content Standard - Economic Interdependence:
3. Students evaluate the costs and benefits of trade among individuals, nations, and organizations to explain why trade results in higher overall levels of production and consumption.
~ Describe and give examples of the economic interdependence among countries around the world.
| | | | Module IX Wildfires: Fight, Flight, or Coexistence? | Grades 6-8: History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies. Content Standards - Historical Inquiry:
3. Students use the tools and methods of historians to transform learning from memorizing historical data to “doing history.”
~ Frame and answer questions through historical research. Geography:
Content Standard - Environment and Society:
5. Students demonstrate stewardship of earth’s resources through the understanding of society and the physical environment.
~ Analyze the distribution of natural resources, variations of physical systems, natural hazards, and positive and negative environmental impacts in different parts of the world, and engage in an environmental care-taking action/project | Module X The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S. | Grades 6-8: Content Standards - Historical Inquiry:
3. Students use the tools and methods of historians to transform learning from memorizing historical data to “doing history.”
~ Frame and answer questions through historical research. Geography:
Content Standard - Environment and Society:
5. Students demonstrate stewardship of earth’s resources through the understanding of society and the physical environment.
~ Analyze the distribution of natural resources, variations of physical systems, natural hazards, and positive and negative environmental impacts in different parts of the world, and engage in an environmental care-taking action/project
| Module XI Forest Research: Who, What, Where & Why? | Grades 6-8: History:
Content Standard - Change, Continuity, Causality:
1. Employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
~ Identify possible causal relationships in historical chronologies.
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