Curriculum

History.

World, US, and inquiry-based historical thinking

Grade 1

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Grade 1 Fall History — Then and Now, Family Histories, and How We Know What Happened
18 weeks 18 lessons 13 skills 47 exercises
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Grade 1 Spring History - Citizenship, World Neighbors, Symbols, and the Many Groups We Belong To
18 weeks 18 lessons 13 skills 39 exercises

Grade 2

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Grade 2 Fall History - The Native Peoples of Our Region: Living Nations, Land, and Knowledge
18 weeks 18 lessons 14 skills 31 exercises
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Grade 2 Spring History - Immigration Stories: Why Families Move, How They Journey, and How They Make Home
18 weeks 18 lessons 13 skills 37 exercises

Grade 3

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Grade 3 Fall History - Local History and Landmarks: The Stories of THIS Place
18 weeks 18 lessons 17 skills 39 exercises
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Grade 3 Spring History - World Cultures in Depth and Toolmaking Across Time: Four Cultures, Six Source Types, and the Story of How Humans Have Solved Problems
18 weeks 18 lessons 13 skills 45 exercises

Grade 4

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Grade 4 Fall History - State History as a Framework Unit: Indigenous Homelands, Contact and Sovereignty, Statehood, Geography, Government, Economy, Symbols, and the State Archive (Concrete Example: California; Localizable to Any State or Province)
18 weeks 20 lessons 16 skills 48 exercises
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Grade 4 Spring — US National Geography and Westward Expansion (1803–1890): Whose Land, Whose Story, Whose Future?
18 weeks 22 lessons 16 skills 48 exercises

Grade 5

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Early US History through the American Revolution (Pre-Contact through 1783)
Many Nations Many Voices Many Revolutions
18 weeks 22 lessons 18 skills 50 exercises
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US Constitution and the Early Republic (1783-1850)
The Founders' Compromises the People's Movements the Sovereignty That Endured
18 weeks 22 lessons 20 skills 52 exercises

Grade 6

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Ancient Civilizations from Deep Time to 476 CE
Mesopotamia Egypt and Nubia Indus China Hebrews Greece Rome
Whose Sources? · Whose Voices? · Whose Living Descendants?
18 weeks 22 lessons 19 skills 52 exercises
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The Classical World and Late Antiquity to ~500 CE
Late Rome and Byzantium Han China Mauryan and Gupta India Sasanian Persia Aksum and Early Ghana Classical Maya and Teotihuacan
Whose 'Fall'? · Whose Golden Age? · Whose Living Descendants?
18 weeks 22 lessons 18 skills 52 exercises

Grade 7

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The Medieval World c. 500-1500 CE
Byzantium the Islamic Caliphates and Golden Age Tang and Song China West African Empires (Ghana/Mali/Songhai) Mesoamerica (Postclassic Toltec/Aztec) and the Inca the Mongol Empire and Pax Mongolica the Indian Ocean and Trans-Saharan Trade Networks Medieval Europe as ONE Region Among Many
Whose Golden Age? · Whose Crusade? · Whose Trade Network?
18 weeks 22 lessons 18 skills 55 exercises
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The Early-Modern World c. 1450-1750 CE in Six Simultaneous Formations
Italian + Northern Renaissance the Reformation and Wars of Religion the Scientific Revolution the Age of Exploration with Zheng He Precedence and Multi-Perspective Encounter the Conquest of Mexica and Inca from Indigenous Perspectives Ongoing Indigenous Resistance through Pueblo Revolt 1680 and Itzá Maya 1697 the Atlantic Slave Trade Origins with African Voices Centered the Mughal Empire (KS3 Non-European Society Study) Ming/Qing China with Zheng He 1405-1433 Tokugawa Japan the Ottoman Empire
Whose Renaissance? · Whose Discovery? · Whose Conquest?
18 weeks 22 lessons 18 skills 55 exercises

Grade 8

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Grade 8 Fall — The Long Road to the Civil War, the War Itself from Multiple Perspectives, Reconstruction as Betrayed Promise, and the Industrial-Gilded Age (United States 1850-1900)
18 weeks 20 lessons 17 skills 52 exercises
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Grade 8 Spring — The 20th-Century World, the Long Civil Rights Movement as Multi-Movement Struggle, and a Civics Deep-Dive (US + Global 1898–Present, K-8 History Capstone)
18 weeks 22 lessons 22 skills 58 exercises

Grade K

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Kindergarten Fall History — Family, School, Community Helpers, and the First Sense of Past, Present, and Future
18 weeks 18 lessons 12 skills 30 exercises
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Kindergarten Spring History — Calendar Time, Holidays Across Traditions, and Mapping Our Neighborhood
18 weeks 18 lessons 13 skills 36 exercises