Historic Roscoe Village – Living History Tour
Connection to Ohio Social Studies Academic Content Standards
Grade K
Standard: History
Benchmark K-2 B: Place events in correct order on a time line. Chronology
Indicator 2: Use vocabulary associated with time to distinguish broad categories of historical time such as long ago, yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: Geography
Benchmark K-2 C: Explain how environmental processes influence human activity
and ways humans depend on and adapt to the environment. Human Environmental
Interaction
Indicator 7: Identify key
natural resources that are used in the students' daily lives.
Exhibit Hall, Blacksmith Shop, Cooperage,
Print Shop, Broom Shop, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Economics
Benchmark K-2 A: Explain how the scarcity of resources requires people to make choices to satisfy their wants. Scarcity and Resource Allocation
Indicator 1: Recognize that people have many wants.
Indicator 2: Explain how people make decisions in order to satisfy their wants.
Exhibit Hall, Blacksmith Shop, Print Shop, Broom Shop, Craftsman’s House, Dr. Maro Johnson House
Standard: Economics
Benchmark K-2 B: Distinguish between goods and services and explain how people can be both buyers and sellers of goods and services. Production, Distribution and Consumption
Indicator 3: Identify goods and services.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Blacksmith Shop, Cooperage, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Government
Benchmark K-2 A: Identify elected leaders and authority figures in the home, school and community and explain reasons for having persons in authority. Role of Government
Indicator 1: Identify authority figures in the home, school and community.
Roscoe School, general field trip rules
Standard: Government
Benchmark K-2 B: Recognize and explain the importance of symbols and landmarks of the United States. Role of Government
Indicator 2: Recognize symbols of the United States that represent its democracy and values including: the national flag.
Roscoe School
Standard: Government
Benchmark K-2 C: Explain the purposes of rules in different settings and the
results of adherence to, or violation of, the rules. Rules and Laws
Indicator 3: Identify purposes for having rules and ways that they provide order, security and safety in the home, school and community.
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Standard: Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
Benchmark: K-2 A: Describe the results of cooperation in group settings and demonstrate the necessary skills. Participation
Indicator 1: Participate and cooperate in classroom activities.
Roscoe School, general field trip rules
Standard: Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
Benchmark K-2 B: Demonstrate personal accountability, including making choices and taking responsibility for personal actions. Rights and Responsibilities
Indicator 2: Take personal responsibility to follow directions and rules.
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Standard: Social Studies Skills and Methods
Benchmark K-2 A: Obtain information from oral, visual, print and electronic sources. Obtaining Information
Indicator 1: Listen for information.
Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: Social Studies Skills and Methods
Benchmark K-2 B: Predict outcomes based on factual information. Thinking and Organizing
Indicator 3: Compare similarities and differences among objects or pictures.
Print Shop, Broom Shop, Craftsman’s House, Dr, Maro Johnson House
Grade One
Standard: History
Benchmark K-2 B: Place events in correct order on a time line. Chronology
Indicator 3: Distinguish among past, present and future.
Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: History
Benchmark K-2 C: Compare daily life in the past and present demonstrating an understanding that while basic human needs remain the same, they are met in different ways in different times and places. Daily Life
Indicator 4: Raise questions about how families lived in the past and use photographs, letters, artifacts and books to clarify what is known and what is unknown.
Indicator 5: Compare past and present, near and far, with emphasis on daily life including: the roles of men, women and children; the identification of basic human needs; various ways people meet human needs.
Blacksmith Shop, Print Shop, Dr. Maro Johnson Office, Dr. Maro Johnson House, Roscoe School, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Geography
Benchmark K-2 C: Explain how environmental processes influence human activity and ways humans depend on and adapt to the environment. Human Environmental Interaction
Indicator 7: Describe human adaptations to variations in the physical environment including: food; clothing; shelter; transportation; recreation.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Dr. Maro Johnson House, Roscoe School, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Economics
Benchmark K-2 A: Explain how the scarcity of resources requires people to make choices to satisfy their wants. Scarcity and Resource Allocation
Indicator 1: Explain that wants are unlimited and resources are scarce, thereby forcing individuals to make choices.
Exhibit Hall, Blacksmith Shop, Print Shop, Broom Shop, Craftsman’s House, Dr. Maro Johnson House
Standard: Economics
Benchmark K-2 B: Distinguish between goods and services and explain how people can be both buyers and sellers of goods and services. Production, Distribution and Consumption
Indicator 2: Describe the ways people produce, consume and exchange goods and services in their community.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Cooperage, Craftsman’s House, Dr. Maro Johnson House
Standard: Economics
Benchmark K-2 C: Describe the ways people produce, consume and exchange goods and services in their community. Markets
Indicator 3: Explain ways that people may obtain goods and services that they do not produce including the use of money and barter.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Blacksmith Shop, Cooperage, Print Shop, Dr. Maro Johnson Office, Dr. Maro Johnson House, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Government
Benchmark K-2 C: Explain the purposes of rules in different settings and the results of adherence to, or violation of, the rules. Rules and Laws
Indicator 4: Recognize the need for rules in different settings and the need for fairness in such rules.
Roscoe School, general field trip rules
Standard: Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
Benchmark K-2 A: Describe the results of cooperation in group settings and demonstrate the necessary skills. Participation
Indicator 1: Demonstrate the importance of fair play, good sportsmanship, respect for the rights and opinions of others and the idea of treating others the way you want to be treated.
Roscoe School, general field trip rules
Standard: Social Studies Skills and Methods
Benchmark K-2 A: Obtain information from oral, visual, print and electronic sources. Obtaining Information
Indicator 1: Obtain information about a topic using a variety of oral and visual sources.
Ditches of Destiny video, Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: Social Studies Skills and Methods
Benchmark K-2 B: Predict outcomes based on factual information. Thinking and Organizing
Indicator 2: Sequence information.
Indicator 3: Determine categories for sorting information.
Exhibit Hall, Blacksmith Shop Print Shop, Cooperage, Dr. Maro Johnson House, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Social Studies Skills and Methods
Benchmark K-2 D: Identify a problem and work in groups to solve it. Problem Solving
Indicator 6: Display courtesy and respect for others in group settings including: staying on the topic; focusing attention on the speaker
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Grade Two
Standard: History
Benchmark K-2 C: Compare daily life in the past and present demonstrating an understanding that while basic human needs remain the same, they are met in different ways in different times and places. Daily Life
Indicator 4: Use historical artifacts, photographs, biographies, maps, diaries and folklore to answer questions about daily life in the past.
Indicator 5: Identify the work that people performed to make a living in the past and explain how jobs in the past are similar and/or different from those of today.
Indicator 6: Identify and describe examples of how science and technology have changed the daily lives of people and compare: forms of communication from the past and present; forms of transportation from the past and present.
Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: People in Societies
Benchmark K-2 B: Identify ways that different cultures within the United States and the world have shaped our national heritage. Diffusion
Indicator 4: Describe the contributions of significant individuals, including artisans, inventors, scientists, architects, explorers and political leaders to the cultural heritage of the United States.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Print Shop, Roscoe School, Dr. Maro Johnson House
Standard: Geography
Benchmark K-2 A: Identify the location of the state of Ohio, the United States, the continents and oceans on maps, globes and other geographic representations. Location
Indicator 1: Read and interpret a variety of maps.
Exhibit Hall
Standard: Geography
Benchmark K-2 B: Read and interpret a variety of maps. Places and Regions
Indicator 4: Describe and locate landforms (plateaus, islands, hills, mountains, valleys) and bodies of water (creeks, ponds, lakes, oceans) in photographs, maps and 3-D models.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall
Standard: Geography
Benchmark K-2 C: Explain how environmental processes influence human activity and ways humans depend on and adapt to the environment. Human Environmental Interaction
Indicator 6: Identify ways in which people have responded to and modified the physical environment such as building roads and clearing land for urban development.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Cooperage
Standard: Economics
Benchmark K-2 A: Explain how the scarcity of resources requires people to make choices to satisfy their wants. Scarcity and Resource Allocation
Indicator 1: Explain how resources can be used in various ways (e.g., a bushel of corn could be fed to cows, used to make sweetener, or converted to fuel).
Exhibit Hall, Print Shop, Cooperage, Dr. Maro Johnson Office, Dr. Maro Johnson House, Roscoe School
Standard: Economics
Benchmark K-2 B: Distinguish between goods and services and explain how people can be both buyers and sellers of goods and services. Production, Distribution and Consumption
Indicator 2: Explain how people are both buyers and sellers of goods and services.
Indicator 3: Recognize that most people work in jobs in which they produce a few special goods or services.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Blacksmith Shop, Print Shop, Cooperage, Craftsman’s House, Dr. Maro Johnson House
Standard: Social Studies Skills and Methods
Benchmark K-2 A: Obtain information from oral, visual, print and electronic sources. Obtaining Information
Indicator 1: Obtain information from oral, visual and print sources.
Indicator 2: Identify sources used to gather information: people; printed materials; electronic sources.
Ditches of Destiny video, Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: Social Studies Skills and Methods
Benchmark K-2 B: Predict outcomes based on factual information. Thinking and Organizing
Indicator 3: Predict the next event in a sequence.
Exhibit Hall, Blacksmith Shop Print Shop, Cooperage, Dr. Maro Johnson House, Craftsman’s House
Grade Three
Standard: History
Benchmark 3-5 A: Construct time lines to demonstrate an understanding of units of time and chronological order. Chronology
Indicator 1: Define and measure time by years, decades and centuries.
Roscoe Living History areas
Standard: History
Benchmark 3-5 C: Explain how new developments led to the growth of the United States. Growth
Indicator 3: Describe changes in the community over time including changes in: businesses; architecture; physical features; employment; education; transportation; technology; recreation.
Ditches of Destiny video, Roscoe Living History areas
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 3-5 C: Identify and explain ways people have affected the physical environment of North America and analyze the positive and negative consequences. Human Environmental Interaction
Indicator 7: Identify ways that physical characteristics of the environment (i.e., landforms, bodies of water, climate and vegetation) affect and have been modified by the local community.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Cooperage
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 3-5 D: Analyze ways that transportation and communication relate to patterns of settlement and economic activity. Movement
Indicator 8: Identify systems of transportation used to move people and products and systems of communication used to move ideas from place to place.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Print Shop, Caldersburgh Pearl
Standard: Economics
Benchmark 3-5 B: Explain why entrepreneurship, capital goods, technology,
specialization and division of labor are important in the production of goods
and services. Production, Distribution and Consumption
Indicator 2: Identify people who purchase goods and services as consumers
and people who make goods or provide services as producers.
Blacksmith Shop, Print Shop, Cooperage, Broom Shop, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Economics
Benchmark 3-5 C: Explain how competition affects producers and consumers in a market economy and
why specialization facilitates trade. Markets
Indicator 6: Explain how the local community is an example of a market where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
Indicator 7: Identify examples of economic competition in the local community.
Cooperage, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Social Studies Skills and Methods
Benchmark 3-5 B: Use a variety of sources to organize information and draw inferences. Thinking and
Organizing
Indicator 3: Identify
possible cause and effect relationships.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall,
Blacksmith Shop, Cooperage, Craftsman’s House, Dr. Maro Johnson’s Office, Roscoe
School
Grade Four
Standard: History
Benchmark 3-5 C: Explain how new developments led to the growth of the United
States. Growth
Indicator 5: Explain how canals and railroads changed settlement patterns in
Ohio and Ohio's economic and political status in the United States.
Ditches of Destiny video, Roscoe Living
History areas
Standard: People in
Societies
Benchmark 3-5 B: Explain the reasons people from various cultural groups came to
North America and the consequences of their interactions with each other.
Interaction
Indicator 3a and b: Explain the reasons people came to Ohio including:
opportunities in agriculture, mining and manufacturing, family ties.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 3-5 C: Identify and explain ways people have affected the physical
environment of North America and analyze the positive and negative consequences.
Human Environmental Interaction
Indicator 8: Identify how environmental processes (i.e., glaciations and
weathering) and characteristics (landforms, bodies of water, climate,
vegetation) influence human settlement and activity in Ohio.
Indicator 9a-c: Identify ways that people have affected the physical environment of Ohio including: use of wetlands; use of forests; building farms, towns and transportation systems;
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Cooperage
Grade Five
Standard: History
Benchmark 3-5 C: Explain how new developments led to the growth of the United
States. Growth
Indicator 6: Explain the impact of settlement, industrialization and
transportation on the expansion of the United States.
Ditches of Destiny video, Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: People in
Societies
Benchmark 3-5 B: Explain the reasons people from various cultural groups came to
North America and the consequences of their interactions with each other.
Interaction
Indicator 5: Compare reasons for immigration to North America with the reality
immigrants experienced upon arrival.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 3-5 C: Identify and explain ways people have affected the physical
environment of North America and analyze the positive and negative consequences.
Human Environmental Interaction
Indicator 8: Explain how the characteristics of different physical environments
affect human activities in North America.
Indicator 9a and b: Analyze the positive and negative consequences of human changes to the physical environment including: Great Lakes navigation, highway systems.
Ditches of Destiny video, Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: Economics
Benchmark 3-5 A: Explain the opportunity costs involved in the allocation of scarce productive resources. Scarcity and Resource Allocation
Indicator 2: Explain that individuals in all economies must answer the fundamental economic questions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.
Ditches of Destiny video, Blacksmith Shop, Cooperage, Caldersburgh Pearl, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Economics
Benchmark 3-5 C: Explain how competition affects producers and consumers in a market economy and why specialization facilitates trade. Markets
Indicator 4: Explain how regions in North America become interdependent when they specialize in what they produce best and then trade with other regions inside and outside North America to increase the amount and variety of goods and services available.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall
Grade Six
Standard: People in Societies
Benchmark 6-8 A: Compare cultural practices, products and perspectives of past civilizations in order to understand commonality and diversity of cultures. Cultures
Indicator 1a, b, and d: Compare the cultural practices and products of the societies studied including: class structure; gender roles; customs and traditions.
Dr. Maro Johnson House, Roscoe School, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 6-8 B: Define and identify regions using human and physical characteristics. Places and Regions
Indicator 3a and d: Explain the distribution patterns of economic activities and how changes in technology, transportation, communication and resources affect those patterns including: agriculture; manufacturing.
Ditches of Destiny video, Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 6-8 C: Explain how the environment influences the way people live in different places and the consequences of modifying the environment. Human Environmental Interaction
Indicator 5a-d: Describe ways human settlements and activities are influenced by environmental factors and processes in different places and regions including: bodies of water; landforms; climates; vegetation;
Indicator 6a and c: Describe ways in which human migration has an impact on the physical and human characteristics of places including: urbanization; deforestation.
Indicator 7c and d: Describe ways humans depend on and modify the environment and the positive and negative consequences of the modifications including: agriculture; urban growth.
Ditches of Destiny video, Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 6-8 D: Explain reasons that people, products and ideas move from place to place and the effects of that movement on geographic patterns. Movement
Indicator 8b, c, and e: Explain push and pull factors that cause people to migrate from place to place including: poverty/economic opportunity; cultural ties; environmental factors.
Ditches of Destiny video, Roscoe Village Living History areas
Grade Seven
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 6-8 B: Define and identify regions using human and physical characteristics. Places and Regions
Indicator 3: Describe changes in the physical and human characteristics of regions that occur over time and identify the consequences of such changes.
Ditches of Destiny video, Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 6-8 D: Explain reasons that people, products and ideas move from place to place and the effects of that movement on geographic patterns. Movement
Indicator 5a, b, d, and e: Describe the geographic factors and processes that contribute to and impede the diffusion of people, products and ideas from place to place including: physical features; culture; trade; technological innovations.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Cooperage, Caldersburgh Pearl, Craftsman’s House
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 6-8 B: Define and identify regions using human and physical characteristics. Places and Regions
Indicator 1: Compare places and regions in the United States as they existed prior to 1877 with the same places and regions today to analyze changes in land use and population, political, social and economic characteristics.
Ditches of Destiny video, Roscoe Village Living History areas
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 6-8 C: Explain how the environment influences the way people live in different places and the consequences of modifying the environment. Human Environmental Interaction
Indicator 2: Analyze how physical characteristics of the environment influenced population distribution, settlement patterns and economic activities in the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall
Standard: Geography
Benchmark 6-8 D: Explain reasons that people, products and ideas move from place to place and the effects of that movement on geographic patterns. Movement
Indicator 3: Explain how colonization, westward expansion, immigration and advances in transportation and communication changed geographic patterns in the United States.
Ditches of Destiny video, Exhibit Hall, Craftsman’s House