Civics & Economics

This course focuses on practical life, academic, and career skills for the transition into college and early employment. Major topics include job searching and…

This 12-week course examines people, events and ideas that shaped America in the 1700s, covering colonization, protest and independence, notable figures, and fo…

This first-grade social studies course introduces geography, history, government, citizenship, economics and cultural awareness. Lessons use stories, teacher-le…

This course covers California’s physical geography, Indigenous peoples, European exploration and missions, the Mexican period, the Gold Rush, statehood, and lat…

Unit 1 introduces foundational 5th-grade topics across math, English language arts, science, and social studies. Students practice reading comprehension across…

This course examines the histories, cultures, contributions, and struggles of multiple ethnic groups in the United States, including Indigenous peoples, African…

This course follows National Council for the Social Studies standards to introduce history, economics, civics, and geography. Students study goods and services,…

This course offers a chapter-by-chapter study of Silent Spring, combining scientific context with literary analysis. Students examine pesticide toxicity, ecosys…

This year-long course meets weekly to cover developmentally appropriate 2nd-grade social studies and science topics aligned to Common Core, NCSS, and NGSS. Less…

This course traces the history of food items and practices, covering topics like early bread-making, the origins of chocolate, historical frozen treats, and how…

This 36-week kindergarten course introduces letter recognition, phonics, early reading and writing, counting, basic addition/subtraction, patterns, and measurem…

This course examines U.S. and world governments, civics, major historical events, economic fundamentals, personal finance, geography, and demography through dis…

This part of the 3rd-grade four-part curriculum focuses on core standards across subjects: math topics including fractions and unit fractions, language arts wit…

This fourth-grade social studies course covers U.S. geography, regional landforms and climate, colonial and Revolutionary history, the Constitution and branches…

This middle school U.S. history course covers early indigenous cultures, European colonization, the Revolution, Constitution, westward expansion, the Civil War,…

Unit 2 continues a yearlong 9th‑grade program by developing grammar, literature reading, spelling, Algebra 1 skills, cellular biology concepts, and geography to…

This four-unit course follows National Council for the Social Studies standards to study U.S. history, civic institutions, and regional geography. Lessons inclu…

This course examines the long, complex struggle for women’s suffrage in the United States, beginning with the Seneca Falls Convention and continuing through rat…

This third grade social studies course covers map skills, physical and human geography, Indigenous cultures, colonization, American independence, the three bran…

This four-week readiness course meets three times weekly to review essential 6th-grade topics and strengthen academic skills for middle school. Instruction comb…

This course examines Easter’s historical development from pre-Christian spring festivals through the rise of Christian observance to contemporary secular and co…

This unit covers key 10th-grade topics: reading comprehension strategies (inference, central ideas, summaries), writing argument and objective summaries, introd…

Students meet activists such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Jane Goodall, and Malala Yousafzai to learn how people have worked for fairness, animal welf…

Unit 5 brings together and extends skills across English Language Arts, Algebra 1, Biology, Civics, Economics, and World Geography. Students focus on writing an…