Curriculum
History.
World, US, and inquiry-based historical thinking
Grade 1
fall
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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
spring
hist.g1.s
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
fall
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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
spring
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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
fall
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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
spring
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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
fall
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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
spring
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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
fall
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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
spring
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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
fall
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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
spring
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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
fall
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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
spring
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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
fall
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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
spring
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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
fall
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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
spring
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Kindergarten Spring History — Calendar Time, Holidays Across Traditions, and Mapping Our Neighborhood
18 weeks
18 lessons
13 skills
36 exercises