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Intrigue of the Past: North Carolina's First Peoples
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Social Studies (1996 version, implemented and tested.)

• Grade 4, Goal 5: Geography -- the learner will evaluate ways the people of North Carolina use, modify and adapt to the physical environment.
• Objective 2: Describe how North Carolinians now use, modify, or adapt to their physical environment.

• Grade 5, Goal 5: Geography -- the learner will evaluate ways the people of the Western Hemisphere use, modify, and adapt to the physical environment.
• Objective 1: Explain how people of the Western Hemisphere adapt and have adapted to the physical environment.

• Grade 8, Goal 1: Impact of geography -- the learner will assess the influence of geography on the economic, social, and political development of North Carolina.
• Objective 3: Analyze ways North Carolinians have modified, used, and adapted to the physical environment.

Science (1999 version, implemented but not yet tested.)

• Grade 4, Goal 1: The learner will build an understanding of animal growth and adaptation.
• Objective 3: Evaluate living and nonliving things that affect animal life:
• other animals;
• plants;
• climate;
• water;
• air;
• location.

• Grade 5, Goal 1: The learner will build an understanding of the interdependence of plants and animals.
• Objective 4: Relate the role of light, range of temperatures, and soil composition to an ecosystem's capacity to support life.
• Objective 6: Assess the interaction of organisms within an ecosystem.

• Grade 8, Goal 2: The learner will build an understanding of population dynamics.
• Objective 3: Explain how changes in habitat may affect organisms.

(Curriculum alignment courtesy of Learn North Carolina.)

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