THE LAND OF REFUGE
Meets Core Curriculum Standards
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Grades 6 & 7
Standard 2
Students will understand the contributions of Native American Indians, explorers, and Utah’s pioneers.
Objective 3
- Describe the significance of pioneers in Utah history.
- Explain the reasons for the Mormon migration to Utah.
- Explore the pattern of Mormon settlement throughout the West.
- Recognize how the Mormon pioneers’ heritage influences Utah today.
- Investigate the contributions of Utah’s “new pioneers”, i.e., ethnic/multicultural/religious/scientific/technological groups.
Standard 3
Students will understand the relationship between government
and the people of Utah.
Objective 1
Examine Utah’s struggle for statehood.
Standard 5
Students will understand the diverse nature of Utah’s peoples and cultures.
Objective 2
- Investigate the contributions of Utah’s religious and ethnic groups, including Native American Indians.
- Identify Utah’s religious and ethnic groups.
- Explain the reasons Utah’s religious and ethnic groups settled in Utah.
- Explain the benefits each ethnic and religious group adds to Utah’s society.
- Investigate how Utah’s religious and ethnic groups adapt and interact.
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Grades 8 through 12
U.S. History I
Standard 10
Students will understand the development of the American West following the Civil War.
Objective 1
Analyze the factors that brought people west.
Objective 2
Analyze the settlement of the American West.
Objective 3
Investigate the conflict among various groups involved in the settlement of the West.
U.S. History II
Standard 1
Students will expand their knowledge of pre-Reconstruction America.
Objective 3
- Analyze the growth and division of the United States from 1820 through 1877.
- Trace the United States’ expansion and growth from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
- Recognize the sectional differences that developed during the antebellum period.
- Evaluate the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War.
- Analyze the successes and failures of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War.
Standard 2
Students will understand how the growth of industry changed the United States.
Objective 3
- Assess how the growth of industry affected the movement of people into and within the United States.
- Determine the demographic changes in population from the 1890’s to the present.
- Investigate the influences that affected various immigrant groups entering the United States.
Utah Studies
Standard 2
Students will understand the contributions of Native American Indians, explorers, and Utah’s pioneers.
Objective 3
- Describe the significance of pioneers in Utah history.
- Explain the reasons for the Mormon migration to Utah.
- Explore the pattern of Mormon settlement throughout the West.
- Recognize how the Mormon pioneers’ heritage influences Utah today.
- Investigate the contributions of Utah’s “new pioneers”, i.e., ethnic/multicultural/religious/scientific/technological groups.
Standard 3
Students will understand the relationship between government and the people of Utah.
Objective 1
Examine Utah’s struggle for statehood.
Standard 5
Students will understand the diverse nature of Utah’s peoples and cultures.
Objective 2
- Investigate the contributions of Utah’s religious and ethnic groups, including Native American Indians.
- Identify Utah’s religious and ethnic groups.
- Explain the reasons Utah’s religious and ethnic groups settled in Utah.
- Explain the benefits each ethnic and religious group adds to Utah’s society.
- Investigate how Utah’s religious and ethnic groups adapt and interact.
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Grade 4 & 5
Standard 2
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Pictured above: Colonia Morelos School, circa 1908