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Core Knowledge Curriculum

KINDERGARTEN

NVACS-SS ALIGNED INQUIRY LESSONS

• How Can We Be Responsible and Cooperate in Our Classroom?
• Why Aren’t Rules the Same for Everyone?
• Do I Have to Like Everyone?
• How Do Maps Talk to Us?
• What Makes Holidays and Traditions Special?
• How Have Our School Communities Changed Over Time?

C3 INQUIRY LESSONS

• Why Do I Have to Be Responsible?
• What Makes Holidays Special?
• Is Everyone Unique?
• Which is Better, a Map or a Globe?
• Why Can’t We Ever Get Everything We Need and Want?
• Do We Still Need Paper Maps?
• Are All Rules Good Rules?

READ ALOUD PROJECT LESSONS (Requires outside texts)

• Chrysanthemum
• Dear Juno
• Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
• For You Are a Kenyan Child
• How My Family Lives in America
• The Boxcar Children
• Thunder Cake
• Wangari’s Trees of Peace

READ ALOUDS TO BUILD KNOWLEDGE AND VOCABULARY (Requires outside texts)

• A World of Cookies for Santa
• One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
• The Other Side (Segregation)
• The Invisible Boy (Empathy)
• Mapping a School

POPULATION EDUCATION.ORG LESSON

• Creatures in Motion

CORE KNOWLEDGE  DBQs

• Core Knolwedge DBQ Columbus and the Pilgrims
• Core Knowledge DBQ Colonial Workers
• Core Knowledge DBQ Farm
• Core Knowledge DBQ Kings and Queens
• Core Knowledge DBQ Presidents and American Symbols

CORE KNOWLEDGE ZOOM INS

• Core Knowledge Zoom In Kings and Queens
• Core Knowledge Zoom In Columbus and the Pilgrims
• Core Knowledge Zoom In Colonial Towns and Townspeople
• Core Knowledge Zoom In Farms