K-5 Standards

This is an educational standards resource.

Educational level: this is a primary education resource.

Purpose

The purpose of this page is to describe international standards for Primary Education (K-5th Grades, Elementary School) by pulling together resources from across the web and also link to resources such as curricula and individual lessons.

The goal is to lay out a map of knowledge to let parents, teachers, and students know what students should learn and to help them know whether the students learned it. Perhaps this will lead to a fully free and online curriculum.

Multiple sources of curricula will be allowed here because there are differing ideas about what should be learned at various levels, and different perceived needs in different states and different countries.

Information on standardized tests/college entrance tests might also be referenced (if distinguished from institutional standards).

Standards by subject and grade level (regardless of country/state)

Language Arts: K 1 2 3 4 5
Mathematics: K 1 2 3 4 5

Resources

Curriculum Materials from Various Sources

We only include links here to educational institutions that provide substantial details about their curriculum. Particular attention is paid to the license on the materials because the intent is to copy, remix, and republish the material. Information from Non-Free sources may be used, studied, and referred to, but they may not be copied and/or modified.

Standards from different countries are also welcome for integration.

For interest's sake, here is a ranking of public schools by state to possibly help us prioritize our search for curriculum materials.

Liberal Sources (Free for Non-Commercial Use or possibly other purposes)

Common Core State Standards Initiative - 45/50 U.S. States have adopted - License: © Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.
Massachusetts Department of Education - Curriculum/Standards - License: © 2011 Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Permission is hereby granted to copy any or all parts of this document for non-commercial educational purposes. Please credit the “Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.”
United Nations Cyberschoolbus curriculum terms of use

Sources With Unknown Restrictions

New Hampshire Department of Education - Common Core State Standards, Curriculum, Curriculum Frameworks - License: unknown
Louisiana Department of Education - Comprehensive Curriculum, Access Guide - License: unknown

Restrictive Sources (Non-Free)

Minnesota Department of Education - Standards, (Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies - License: Personal use of materials contained in the MDE Internet Web Site is permitted. Duplication, reproduction, manipulation, or derivation, whether commercial or otherwise, for commercial gain is prohibited without the express written consent of MDE.
Georgia Educational Standards - Georgia Performance Standards K-8, QCC (Quality Core Curriculum) - License: Terms of Use. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute in any way any material from our Site including code and software. Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute materials found on the Site should be sent to: Director of Legal Services, 2052 Twin Towers East, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.
achieve.org - Standards, Common Core State Standards Initiative, English and Math Standards - License: Impermissible Uses. The following are prohibited uses of the Common Core State Standards: (a) revising, including editing

Commercial Sources, Presumed Non-Free

Archdiocese of Philadelphia Catholic Schools - Elementary Curriculum, High School Curriculum
Complete Curriculum - Language Arts (all grades), Math (all grades), Science (all grades), Social Studies (all grades) - Includes 180 daily lessons per grade in each of 4 main academic streams: Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. Commercial, but very inexpensive. This seems like a model of simplicity in that it is organized into 180 separate packets with everything necessary (text, exercises, etc.) for one day's worth of work.

State Departments of Education Without a Published Curriculum That We Could Find

Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Accredited Commercial Curricula

http://www.abeka.com/ - A seller of an *accredited* grade school curriculum for use in private schools or in home schooling.

University Open Courseware

Personal Notes

I started this page on Wikipedia after my wife and I decided to home school two of our three children (9th grade and 7th grade). You would think that with the millions of dollars spent on public education that the internet would be overflowing with good information on educational curricula. I found that was not so. This page follows from my efforts to make sense of what I found out there, such that I might have an overview of what students are supposed to learn in school, and so that I could tell if my kids had learned it.

Spadkins (Stephen Adkins) 12:40, 16 August 2011 (UTC)