Core Knowledge^® Lesson Plans

Language Arts/ English

1. Writing, Grammar, and Usage
• Library Guide to the States (2006) — also found under Media
• Living the Life of a Famous Person (2002)
2. Poetry
• Positively Poetry (2007)
• Reading, Writing, Reciting Exciting Poetry! (1998)
3. Fiction and Drama
• Little Women (2007) — Also found in Connections
• Unearthing the Secrets of the Garden (2001)
• The Bard, The Globe, The Midsummer Night's Dream (2000)
• The Game is Afoot — A Study of Sherlock Holmes (1999)
4. Speeches
• Speeches on the Not-So-Big Screen (2007)
5. Sayings and Phrases

History and Geography

World:

1. Geography
• Where in the Latitude are You? A Longitude Here (2003)
• Sand and Water (2000)
2. Meso-American Civilizations
• I AM a Researcher — "I"nca, "A"ztec, "M"aya  (2003) — also found under Media
3. European Exploration, Trade, and Clash of Cultures
• Eye on Exploration: Take a Second Look (2006)
• Geography in the Resource Classroom: Using Maps to Understand the Impact of the Meso-American Civilization and European Explorers (2003) — also found under Special Education
• European Exploration, Trade, and Colonization (2002)
4. Renaissance and Reformation
• The Renaissance: The Rebirth of Ideas (2007)
• Reformation: Revolt and Redirection (2004)
• Ancora Imparo (1998)
• The Reformation (1998)
5. England from the Golden Age to the Glorious Revolution
• Kings and Queens, England: The Golden Age (2003)
6. Russia: Early Growth and Expansion
• Russia and the Czars (2002)
• The Faces of Russia (2001)
7. Feudal Japan
• Feudal Japan: It’s All Japanese to Me! (2005)
• Feudal Japan and the Geography of Japan (1998)

American:

1. Westward Expansion
• The Wild, Wild West (2001)
• Westward We Go! (2001)
• The Westward Expansion (1999)
• Westward Expansion and Spatial Awareness (1997)
2. Civil War
• Heroes of the War Era (2004)
• Realism in Music: The Underground Railroad (2004)
• The Plight of Four Million Newly Emancipated Slaves: Reconstruction 1865-1877 (2002)
• Reconstruction: A Time of Turbulence (1999)
3. Native Americans: Cultures and Conflicts
• Mesoamerica (2005)
• The Marvels of Meso-America: Aztec, Inca, and Maya (2003)
• Aztec, Inca, Maya (1997)
4. U S Geography
• Library Guide to the States (2006) — also found under Media
• Where in the Latitude are You? A Longitude Here. (2003)
• Mighty Mississippi (1995)

Visual Arts

1. Art of the Renaissance
• East Meets West: The Art of Simplicity (2003) — also found under Art
• Colossal Structures and Sculptures (2002) — also found under Art
• Leonardo Lives On! (2002)
• Ancora Imparo (1998)
2. American Art: Nineteenth-Century United States
• Going West: The Artists Who Painted the Way (2002)
• Westward Expansion and Spatial Awareness (1997)
3. Art of Japan

Music

1. Elements of Music
   • Music from the Renaissance (2006) — also found under Music
2. Listening and Understanding
   • Music from the Renaissance (2006) — also found under Music
3. American Musical Traditions
• Realism in Music: The Underground Railroad (2004)
• The African American Spiritual (2001) — also found under Music
4. Songs
   • Fifth-Grade Core Songs (2006) — also found under Music

Mathematics

• Marvelous Math Mania (2005)

1. Numbers and Number Sense
2. Ratio and Percent
• What's Math Got to Do With It? (2004)
• Ratio and Percent (2004)
3. Fractions and Decimals
• What's Math Got to Do With It? (2004)
• Fiddlin' with Fractions (2004)
4. Computation
• What's Math Got to Do With It? (2004)
5. Measurement
6. Geometry
• Geometry: Planely Simple (2007)
7. Probability and Statistics
• What's Math Got to Do With It? (2004)
8. Pre-Algebra

Science

1. Classifying Living Things
• Chaos Within the Living World? Not! (2001)
• A Class Act: The Classification System (2000)
2. Cells: Structures and Processes
• Cell-ebrate! Life (2005)
3. Plant Structures and Processes
• It's Not Easy Being Green: Plant Structures and Processes (2006)
• Planting the Seeds of Knowledge (2002)
4. Life Cycles and Reproduction
• Teaching Life Cycles and Reproduction (2004)
5. Human Body 
• The Human Body (2004)
6. Chemistry: Matter and Change
• A Matter of Matter (2003)
• It's Still All about Matter (2003)
• Chemistry: Phase Changes — Heat and Matter (1999)
• What's The Matter? (1995)
7. Science Biographies
• Spectacular Science Biographies (2006)
• Galileo: The Man of Disbelief (2005)
• Great Men of Science (2005)