Core Knowledge^® Lesson Plans

Language Arts/ English

1. Writing, Grammar, and Usage
• City for Sale: Writing Research and Technology (2005) — Also listed under Connections
• Moving With Your Roots (2005)
2. Poetry
• Poetic Justice: A Study of Poe's Famous Works (2000)
3. Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama
• Exploring the Dark Heart of an Obsessive Mind (2006)
• The Tools of Fiction: Building a Scaffold from which to Examine “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant (2005)
• Voice from the Holocaust: A Message of Hope (2004)
• A Passport to WWII and the Holocaust (2004)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Getting Started with Literature Circles (2004)
• Life's Lessons: Survival of the Fittest (2001)
• The Play's the Thing: The Drama of Cyrano de Bergerac (1999)
• Cyrano de Bergerac: Understanding Drama through Characterization and Dialogue (2003)
4. Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English

History and Geography

1. America Becomes a World Power
• America Becomes a World Power (2000)
2. World War I, "The Great War"
• Washington, D.C.: The Ultimate Core Knowledge Field Trip (2004)
• The Great War Wasn't Great Enough to End All Wars (2002)
3. Russian Revolution
• The Russian Revolution (2007)
4. America from the Twenties to the New Deal
• The Crash, the Dust, and the New Deal (2007)
• The Great Depression (2001)
• Giggle Water and Struggle Buggies (2003)
5. World War II
• Washington, D.C.: The Ultimate Core Knowledge Field Trip (2004)
• World War II in the Pacific and the End of the War (2004)
• A Passport to WWII and the Holocaust (2004)
• Voice from the Holocaust: A Message of Hope (2004)
• A Fence Away from Freedom (2001)
• Anne Frank and Miep Gies (2000)
• "Brother, can you spare a dime?" The Great Depression (1998)
• Teaching Persuasive Speaking and History with Documents: Declaration of War on Japan and Justice Will Be Done (2003)
6. Geography of the United States
• Geography of the United States (2007) large file: 4.5Mb

Visual Arts

1. Art History: Periods and Schools
• Make Monet, Monet! (2006) — also listed under Art
• The Lamp Project: Creating for Community (2006) — Post-Impressionism, also listed under Art
• Picasso: Artist Extraordinaire (2003) — also listed under Art
• Dreaming with Marc Chagall (2004)
• A Study of Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" (1998)

Music

1. Elements of Music
2. Classical Music: Romantics and Nationalists
3. American Musical Traditions (Blues and Jazz)
• All That Jazz (1998) Originally presented as a fifth grade topic

Mathematics

1. Pre-Algebra
2. Geometry
• Raise the Roof (2007) — Calculate surface area, square footage, estimate cost, and follow a budget. Students design and draw their own house, apply area formulas and measure.
• Middle School Does Metrics (2000)
3. Probability and Statistics

Science

1. Atomic Structure
2. Chemical Bonds and Reactions
• Cool Chemistry (2000)
3. Cell Division and Genetics
• Genetics and the Master Race (2007) — Following a scientific strand through history, students will learn the importance of protecting liberty as well as understanding the intricacies of heredity.
• Let Me See Your Double Helix (2007)
• Shallow Gene Pool: No Diving! The Study of Cell Reproduction, DNA, and Genetics (2005)
4. History of the Earth and Life Forms
• A Trip Through TIME! (2007)
• Stories Told By Rocks (2002)
5. Evolution
• That Big Scary E-Word...Evolution (2001)
6. Science Biographies
   • Three Men and a Lady: Science Biographies (2006)
   • A Great Debate: Who Made the Biggest Difference? (2006) — also found under Connections