Core Knowledge^® Lesson Plans

This collection contains units developed by teachers in Core Knowledge schools and presented at recent Core Knowledge National Conferences.  The units are organized by grade level, and within grade level by subject area; click on the links on the left-hand side of this page to begin browsing. 

Please see Special Areas for cross-grade and cross-curricular lessons, as well as lessons for Physical Education, Gifted/Talented, Special Education, Technology, and other special subjects. For a list of suggested resources, please see Resources to Build On.

All writers of these lessons have voluntarily contributed their ideas for publication, allowing us to make the units available here for no charge.  The Core Knowledge Foundation extends its thanks to all teachers who have contributed. 

These units and lessons reflect the teaching philosophies and strategies of their authors, and do not represent an official Foundation statement of the "best" way to teach Core Knowledge topics. We do feel, though, that every one of them contains valuable ideas, strategies, and resources to help teachers continue to share the knowledge.  Similarly, books and other resources recommended in these lessons are suggested by the teachers who developed the lessons, and have not been reviewed by the Core Knowledge Foundation.  For a list of suggested resources, see Resources to Build On.

These units have not been reviewed by content area experts, and the Core Knowledge Foundation is not responsible for any inaccuracies that may appear within them.

Spacing, formatting and missing character errors were ignored in order to post these lessons as quickly as possible. Please keep this in mind when reading through the units. Also, please excuse crooked appendices resulting from slanted originals and manual scanning.