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Sample of the Core Knowledge Sequence
These excerpts
represent only a very small and selective sampling.
Please see the Core Knowledge Sequence for our complete
curriculum in detail.
Kindergarten:
Visual Arts and Language Arts - sample
Language Arts:
auditory
phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, penmanship,
writing numbers and simple figures.
Painting: line and color in such works as
Matisse's The Purple Robe, Picasso's Le Gourmet, Mary
Cassatt's The Bath, Henry O. Tanner's The Banjo Lesson,
and Diego Rivera's Mother's Helper.
Sculpture: Statue of Liberty, mobiles
of Alexander Calder, Northwest American Indian totem
pole
First Grade:
World History - sample
Early
Civilizations: Ancient Egypt
Geography: Africa, Sahara Desert
Importance of the Nile River, floods and farming
Pharaohs: Tutankhamen, Hatshepsut
Pyramids, and mummies, animal gods, Sphinx
Writing: hieroglyphics
Second Grade:
American History - sample
Civil
Rights
Susan B. Anthony and the right to vote
Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights and human rights
Mary McLeod Bethune and educational opportunity
Jackie Robinson and the integration of major league
baseball
Rosa Parks and the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the dream of equal rights
for all
Cesar Chavez and the rights of migrant workers
Third Grade:
Math - sample
Fractions
Recognize fractions to one-tenth
Identify numerator and denominator
Write mixed numbers
Recognize equivalent fractions (for example, 1/2 = 3/6)
Compare fractions with like denominators using the signs
<, >, and =
Geometry
Identify lines as horizontal, vertical, perpendicular,
parallel
Polygons: recognize vertex; identify sides as line
segments; identify pentagon, hexagon, and octagon
Identify angles: right angle; four right angles in a
square or rectangle
Compute area in square inches and square centimeters
Fourth Grade:
Science - sample
Electricity
Electricity as the flow of electrons
Static electricity
Electric current
Electric circuits: closed, open, and
short circuits
Simple circuit (battery, wire, bulb, filament, switch)
Conductors and insulators
How electromagnets work
Using electricity safely
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