Sample Curriculum Maps
Sample Maps and Resources - Summer, 2007
The link above is to a listing of our most current sample maps and related resources.
Older content-specific maps are also listed by content area below:
Language arts, Library, Math, Music, Science, Social studies, Staff development, Other, Special Ed, Maps from Hawaii, Literacy
Language Arts
Library
Introduction to the Library
Grade 3 [designed by Helen Krasnow]
- Why is a library important?
- Why use a library?
- What does a library have that is good for me?
- How do folk tales, fairy tales, and legends reflect culture?
Literacy
Math
Music
- Mozart and Beethoven
Grades 3-5 [designed by Helen Krasnow]
- Who is Mozart?
- Who is Beethoven?
- Why study classical music?
- Why listen to classical music?
Science
- The Study of Rocks and Minerals
Grades 5-6 [designed by Helen Krasnow]
- How are rocks and minerals different?
- Why do people collect rocks?
- Why are some rocks more valuable than others?
- Simple Machines
Grades 5-6 [designed by Helen Krasnow]
- What is work?
- What is "simple" about simple machines?
- How do machines help us live our lives?
- Are all machines good?
- Our Amazing Earth: the earth's crust
Grades 5-6 [designed by Helen Krasnow]
- What would happen if I tried to dig to the other side of the earth?
- What is our earth made of?
- Why study soil?
- How is soil different from dirt?
- How is soil part of our ecosystem?
Social Studies
- Our Community
Grade 2 [designed by Helen Krasnow]
- What is a community?
- What makes my community different from other communities?
- Why do people live in communities?
Citizenship
Grade 8 [designed by Ankeny (IA) Community School District]
August-December map:
- Why did the founders make the Constitution a flexible document?
- Why have a Congress?
- Why would anyone want to be President?
- Economics
Grade 11
January-May map:
- What is economics?
- How does the stock market work
- How does supply and demand affect our everyday lives?
- Math
Grade 1 [designed by Ankeny (IA) Community School District]
September-January map:
- What are numbers?
- Why do I need to learn to add?
- What is a fact family?
U.S. History
Grade 11
- How did the North and South develop economically?
- What enabled Manifest Destiny and what were its effects?
- How did Progressivism affect the federal government?
Special Education
From Woodward Granger Schools in Iowa:
Staff Development
Other
Various, in Spanish
Elementary Science, High School Spanish [from the American School in Madrid and the American School in Bilbao]
Maps from Hawaii
Grade 10 Asian Literature, Grade 3 Social Studies, Grade 6 Math, Grade 7 Pre-Algebra
