Earth to Shiloh: Ozark Ecosystems Then and Now
GRADES 3 - 8
Curriculum Frameworks
ARKANSAS
HISTORY
Strand 1: Time, Continuity, and Change
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of historical
chronology, concepts, and relationships
TC.1.1.Demonstrate the ability to thinking terms of sequencing events.
Content Standard 2: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how ideas,
events, and conditions bring about change.
TC.1.4. Explain how people, places, events, tools, institutions, attitudes,
values, and ideas are the result of what has happened in the past.
Strand 2: People, Places, and Environments
Content Standard 2: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the significance
of the physical and cultural characteristics of Arkansas.
PPE.2.1 Explain how geography and the environment affect the way people live
in Arkansas.
SCIENCE
Grades K – 4
Strand 2: Life Science Systems
Content Standard 2: Students will explore, demonstrate, communicate, apply
and evaluate the knowledge of life science systems.
LS.2.4. Recognize patterns and characteristics of organisms.
Students recognize that living things need food, water, space, and shelter.
LS.2.6. Name some common animals that no longer exist.
LS. 2.9. Define a food chain and a food web.
LS.2.10. Understand that organisms are interdependent.
Content Standard 3: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the connections
and applications in life sciences.
LS.3.1. Understand that life sciences are interwoven into all disciplines.
Students know that past events affect the present and that present events affect
the future.
LS.3.3 Identify that humans change environments in ways that can be beneficial
or detrimental for themselves and other organisms.
Students know that human actions can have an impact on the environment.
Grades 5 – 8
LS.2.10 Describe how genetic material changes through time producing new species
while some older species die out and become extinct.
Students understand that there have been organisms that no longer exist today.
LS.2.11 Analyze ecosystems in terms of population relationships, food webs,
energy flow, and biotic succession.
LS.2.12.Evaluate human impact on the environment.
Strand 3: Earth/Space Systems
Content Standard 2: Students will explore, demonstrate, communicate, apply
and evaluate knowledge of the properties of earth and space systems.
ES.1. Investigate the formation and properties of rocks, minerals and fossils.
Students can identify common Arkansas fossils.
ES.2.2. Understand the relationship, which exists between rock formation, fossil
evidence, and geological history and age of the earth.
Students can describe how fossils are used to compare the layers and ages of
the Earth.
Objectives and Strategies