K-3 Students should be able to:
use observation and primary source materials to research and discover the ways humans and the natural environment have affected each other in the students' own community.

1. compare visual records such as photographs, paintings, and etchings of the community in the past with the actual sites now to answer questions such as: How did human use of this site change over time?

2. explore and map the natural habitat around the students' school.  Identify plants and animals present there.  Observe sections of the school and grounds at different times of the day and year to identify how the school and students affect the form and health of this habitat.  Make observations to identity how the habitat affects the students and the school.  Using available source materials and evidence, compare how the habitat looked in the past with how it looks now.

3. using observation, find examples of the ways people depend upon, use, and alter the physical environment in the students' own home, school, and community.  Compare these with past ways people have altered the same or similar places.

4. using observation, identify and describe the effects of weather and climate on their own lives such as the clothes they wear, the food they eat, and the kinds of houses in which they live.  Compare these with the effects of New Hampshire weather and climate on people in the past.