Louisiana Bayou Bridges

Bayou Bridges is a K–8 social studies curriculum developed in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education. This comprehensive curriculum integrates history, geography, civics, and economics in alignment with the student expectations of the 2022 Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies. These materials advance Louisiana Literacy by building explicit content knowledge and disciplinary literacy. All units emphasize primary sources and have been reviewed by subject matter experts, typically university professors.

 

Bayou Bridges Curriculum Components

For each grade level, you will find a series of units to use throughout the school year. Bayou Bridges includes everything you will need to implement the curriculum at your school or at home.

  • Student Readers:  richly illustrated and engagingly written
  • Student Workbooks:  a compilation of selected primary sources and activity pages from the Student Reader and Teacher Guide, with additional note-taking graphic organizers and pages for completing the Checks for Understanding and Performance Tasks
  • Teacher Guides:  with detailed lesson plans, activity page masters, and assessments
  • Online Resources:  background information for teachers, timeline card slide decks, resources to support guided reading, and additional activities, including artifact studies, primary source examinations, and virtual field trips
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Bayou Bridges Online Resources

Louisiana Bayou Bridges Cross Curriculum Connections

The Cross Curriculum Connections for Louisiana Bayou Bridges (LABB) highlight intentional integration of literacy-rich historical content across grades K-8 through alignment with Core Knowledge biography and narrative series, including the CK Voices in History™, CK Adventures in History™, and CK Collections of Tales™. These connections strengthen disciplinary learning by pairing each social studies unit with engaging, age-appropriate texts that deepen students’ understanding of historical periods, civic development, and influential figures from early American history and global civilizations to industrialization, reform movements, and modern world events. Developed in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education and the Core Knowledge Foundation, these resources support the Bayou Bridges curriculum in building knowledge, vocabulary, and critical thinking through coherent, spiraled exposure to key historical narratives and primary-source-informed storytelling.

LABB Cross Curriculum Connections

More About Bayou Bridges

Partnership Announcement

Read about our new partnership with The Louisiana Department of Education.

 

Core Knowledge Foundation and Louisiana Department of Education Partnership Announcement

 

 
Standards Alignment

Louisiana Bayou Bridges is aligned with the student expectations of the 2022 K-8 Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies   To learn more about those standards, please read this press release from the Louisiana Department of Education.
Professional Learning for Bayou Bridges

The Core Knowledge Foundation is an approved provider of professional learning surrounding Louisiana Bayou Bridges K-8.  If you are interested in learning more, contact us at professionaldevelopment@coreknowledge.org
Biography Series

Voices in History is a Core Knowledge Biography Series that encourages young readers to learn about real Superheroes in history. As a result of acts of extraordinary bravery, ingenuity, strength, and determination, these people made a difference, and changed the world. Perhaps their remarkable stories will inspire young readers to become the Superheroes of the future.

Terms of Use

The Core Knowledge History and Geography curriculum materials made available for download are freely available for anyone to use, adapt, and share (with attribution). No one is permitted to extract any images included in our PDF materials for use in any other way; to do so would be a violation of the agreements under which the images were licensed. No one is permitted to sell either the original program, an adaptation of it, or lesson plans that reproduce any part of it. For more information, see the Guidelines to Core Knowledge and the Creative Commons License.