Floodplain Forest Exploration at (Ecology)

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6.3.3.6.1 Locate, 8.3.3.5.1 Describe the identify and describe locations of human major physical features populations and the in ; explain cultural characteristics how physical features of the United States and the location of and Canada. resources affect 8.3.3.6.2 Describe how settlement patterns the physical and and the growth of cities environmental features in different parts of of Latin America affect Minnesota. human activity and settlement.

Prairie Exploration at Coldwater Spring (Ecology)

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5.4.1.2.2 Explain a 6.3.3.6.1 Locate, 8.3.3.5.1 Describe the historical event from identify and describe locations of human multiple perspectives. major physical features populations and the in Minnesota; explain cultural characteristics how physical features of the United States and the location of and Canada. resources affect 8.3.3.6.2 Describe how settlement patterns the physical and and the growth of cities environmental features in different parts of of Latin America affect Minnesota. human activity and 6.3.4.10.1 Describe settlement. how land was used

during different time periods in Minnesota history; explain how and why land use has changed over time.

Saint Anthony Falls Exploration (History)

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5.2.1.1.1 Apply a 6.3.3.6.1 Locate, identify and 7.4.4.18.2 Identify 8.3.3.5.1 Describe decision-making describe major physical new technologies the locations of process to identify an features in Minnesota; explain and innovations that human populations alternative choice that how physical features and the transformed the and the cultural location of resources affect could have been made United States' characteristics of the settlement patterns and the for a historical event; economy and United States and growth of cities in different explain the probable parts of Minnesota. society; explain how Canada. impact of that choice. they influenced 8.3.3.6.2 Describe 6.3.4.10.1 Describe how land political and regional 5.4.1.2.2 Explain a how the physical was used during different time development. historical event from periods in Minnesota history; and environmental multiple perspectives. explain how and why land use 7.4.4.20.1 Explain features of Latin has changed over time. the impact of the America affect 5.4.2.3.1 Analyze United States human activity and multiple causes and 6.4.4.18.1 Describe how and Industrial Revolution settlement. outcomes of a why the United States claimed on the production, historical event. and settled the upper region in the consumption and early nineteenth century; distribution of goods. explain the impact of steamboat transportation and 7.4.4.23.1 Describe settlement on the physical, how new social and cultural landscapes. technologies have changed political, 6.4.4.20.1 Analyze how the economic and social rise of big business, the interactions. growth of industry, the use of natural resources, and technological innovation influenced Minnesota's economy from 1860 to 1920.

Bdote/ Exploration (History) Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Social Studies Social Studies Standards Social Studies Social Studies Standards Standards Standards

5.2.1.1.1 Apply a 6.3.3.6.1 Locate, identify and 7.1.5.10.1 Describe 8.3.3.5.1 decision-making describe major physical features in diplomacy and other Describe the process to identify Minnesota; explain how physical foreign policy tools; cite locations of an alternative choice features and the location of historical cases in which human that could have been resources affect settlement patterns the United States populations and made for a historical and the growth of cities in different government used these the cultural event; explain the parts of Minnesota. tools. probable impact of characteristics of that choice. 6.3.4.10.1 Describe how land was 7.4.2.4.1 Compare and the United States used during different time periods in contrast the distribution and Canada. 5.2.4.6.1 Describe Minnesota history; explain how and and political status of the concept of profit why land use has changed over indigenous populations in 8.3.3.6.2 as the motivation for time. the United States and Describe how entrepreneurs; Canada; describe how the physical and 6.4.4.15.1 Compare and contrast calculate profit as their status has evolved environmental the Dakota and Anishinaabe nations the difference throughout the 19th and prior to 1800; describe their features of Latin between revenue 20th centuries. interactions with each other and America affect (from selling goods other indigenous peoples. human activity and services) and 7.4.4.18.1 Describe the and settlement. cost (payments for 6.4.4.16.1 Describe European processes that led to the resources used exploration, competition and trade in territorial expansion of the upper Mississippi River region; the United States, 5.4.1.2.2 Explain a describe varied interactions between including the Louisiana historical event from Minnesota's indigenous peoples and Purchase and other land multiple Europeans in the seventeenth and purchases, wars and perspectives. eighteenth centuries. treaties with foreign and indigenous nations, and 5.4.2.3.1 Analyze 6.4.4.18.1 Describe how and why annexation. multiple causes and the United States claimed and outcomes of a settled the upper Mississippi River 7.4.4.18.2 Identify new historical event. region in the early nineteenth technologies and century; explain the impact of innovations that 5.4.4.15.1 Describe steamboat transportation and transformed the United complex urban settlement on the physical, social States' economy and societies that existed and cultural landscapes. society; explain how they in Mesoamerica and influenced political and North America 6.4.4.19.3 Explain reasons for the regional development. before 1500. United States-Dakota War of 1862