Economics

Economics is a dynamic force that shapes every facet of our lives, from monumental choices to the tiniest daily decisions. Navigate the intricate balance of supply and demand, learn how to determine the cost/benefit ratio, and identify what drives changes in market prices. Learn More >

United States History: Conflict and Compromise

Embark on a year-long odyssey through the rich tapestry of United States history, where the echoes of the past converge with the promise of our future. Starting just before 1492 and concluding with the twenty-first-century war on terror, this course will take you through the most important and riveting chapters of U.S. history. Learn More >

Latin American Literature: Borders and Identities

Explore the profound impact of borders—both physical and social/emotional—on individuals and communities, especially within the diverse landscapes of Latin America. This literature course is a voyage of self-discovery that invites you to reflect on your own experiences and perspectives. Learn More >

Fundamentals of Physics

Want to unlock the mysteries of the universe, conduct awe-inspiring experiments, and expand your mind? Try Physics! It’s a gateway to understanding the fundamental laws that govern the universe. Learn More >

Health and Wellness

Get ready to supercharge your life with our year-long health and fitness course! Discover the real scoop on nutrition, unravel the science of stress, and demystify the world of reproduction and sexuality. Let this course be your guide to a healthier, more vibrant you. Learn More >

Preschool

Preschool Play Coursebook

Minor Update: One additional resource was added related to rewriting skills (Teaching and Learning: Stories and Storytelling)

Link Updates: Written-out URLs have been removed from the coursebook. Instead, families are directed to visit our curriculum links page.

K-3 Essentials

Healthy Living from the Start

Content Updates: We made 40+ content updates to this course based on a medical review (including new resources related to puberty and the concept of consent in terms of personal safety).

In Lesson 13, we also added new language related to diet and weight.

Grade 1

Grade 1 Coursebook

Minor Update: In Lesson 13, we added information about creating lined paper (in the main lesson books) after the full alphabet has been introduced. This is to prepare for work that will be done with Word Families.

Grade 1 Resource Book

Minor Update: In the Introduction to Language Arts, updates were made to the section on using lined vs. unlined paper.

Grade 2

Grade 2 Coursebook

Minor Correction: We made 4 minor corrections in this book (formatting, typos, and one scientific name).

Grade 2 Resource Book

Story Updates: We made several small updates to traditional stories to better suit a modern audience (e.g. references to “golden child” depictions, inappropriate use of dialect, etc.)

Grade 3

Grade 3 Coursebook

Content Update: We added an introduction to using the Wind in the Willows as a parent read-aloud.

Grade 4

Grade 4 Science Coursebook and Teacher Manual

Content Update: In Lesson 11, we made a change to assignment 3b. related to food. The new assignment compares the amount of food an animal eats compared to their weight.

Grade 5

Grade 5 English and U.S. History Coursebook

Materials Update: English and U.S. History have been separated into two different coursebooks.

The book 1607: A New Look at Jamestown has been added to the U.S. History curriculum, replacing The Diary of Patience Whipple, which has gone out of print.

Minor Updates: The “melting pot” assignment has been updated in Lesson 5. In Lesson 30, we’ve updated ‘information gathering’ to ‘online research.’

Grade 5 Science Coursebook

Minor Updates: A new activity alternative has been added to one of the lessons. We also made a slight language change around the word “evolved.”

Grade 5 Teacher Manual

Materials Update: The Grade 5 Teacher Manual, which contains information about English, social studies, and science, has been divided into 3 separate teacher manuals.

Grade 6

Grade 6 English  Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Minor Updates: We fixed a small typo and added information on indirect quotations to Lesson 6.

Grade 6 Ancient Civilizations Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Content Updates: Updates were made to assignment #1 of Lesson 3 as well as the timeline project in Lesson 7 and the reading section, “Legend of the Flying Inca Boy” in Lesson 33.

Grade 6 Science Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Content Updates: In Lesson 21, we made updates to assignment #2. We also made updates to choice project C in Lesson 28.

Minor Update: A typo was corrected in test #2 of Lesson 3.

Grade 6 Math Coursebook & Workbook

Minor Updates: We made some small updates related to finding the perimeter of irregular shapes.

Grade 7

Grade 7 English Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Materials Update: We added a new unit on The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and rearranged the content in Unit IV.

Content Update: A new assignment has been added to Lesson 11.

Minor Update: We corrected a grammatical error in Lesson 20.

Grade 7 Math Coursebook

Minor Updates: We corrected typos in Lesson 5 and 6.

Grade 7 Math Workbook

Content Update: In Lesson 13, there was an error in the answer key for test #11, which has been corrected.

Grade 8

Grade 8 English Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Materials Update: The poetry book, Leave This Song Behind, has been replaced with a selection of poems that are accessed online.

Content Update: We have added a blank character chart in Lesson 12.

Grade 8 Civics Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Content Updates: In Lesson 22, we added new information on tribal governments as well as a new assignment.

High School English Courses

American Literature Classics: 2nd Edition

New Edition: This course received major revisions, including all new assignments.

This updated course features almost entirely new literature selections, with the exception of The Great Gatsby which was used in both editions of the course.

British Literature

Minor Updates: In Lesson 9, we renumbered the assignments to fix a typo. We also updated the Midsummer Night’s Dream citations to match the Folger Shakespeare version.

The Hero’s Journey: Literature & Composition, 2nd Edition

Minor Updates: We removed the referenced page numbers in the coursebook for the new edition of House of the Scorpion. We also added an online resource for accessing Pygmalion. 

Word: The Poet’s Voice

Content Update: In Lesson 15, a new poet has been incorporated into the lesson and assignments.

World Literature: Classics

Content Updates: In Lessons 5 and 15, we’ve added additional instructions to the writing instructions.

New assignments have been added to Lessons 9, 15, 18, 25, 26, and 35.

In Lesson 32, we replaced some of the existing assignments to add analysis of informational text.

High School Science Courses

Biology: The Study of Life, 2nd Edition

Content Updates: We added a suggested schedule for the course to the introduction. In Lesson 21, we added a new resource to Activity B.

Minor Updates: Some typos and minor corrections were made in Lessons 7, 9, and 17.

Link Updates: Written-out URLs have been removed from the coursebook. Instead, students are directed to visit our curriculum links page.

Chemistry Matters, 2nd Edition

Minor Updates: Our lab provider Hands On Labs changed their name to Science Interactive, so we updated the course materials to reflect this name change.

Link Updates: Written-out URLs have been removed from the coursebook. Instead, families are directed to visit our curriculum links page.

Environmental Science, 2nd Edition

Content Update: We corrected the rabbit graph found in Lesson 8.

Forensic Science, 2nd Edition

New Edition: The 2nd edition of this course features new labs based on changes to the lab kit contents.

Global Climate Change

Updates to Introduction: We added a literature content warning to ensure parents and students are informed about the content in the course reading selections. We also added a note about the course’s workload, emphasizing that students should not try to do everything.

Minor Update: In Lesson 2, we uploaded the resource used in Read #1.

Link Updates: Written-out URLs have been removed from the coursebook. Instead, families are directed to visit our curriculum links page.

High School Social Studies Courses

Psychology

Content Updates: The course was updated throughout to reflect the new 11th edition of the textbook.

Link Updates: Written-out URLs have been removed from the coursebook. Instead, families are directed to visit our curriculum links page.

Sustainable Food Systems

Name Change: This course was renamed from Foodways to Sustainable Food Systems. All the course content remains the same.

World History: Communities and Connections

Updates to Introduction: We added additional helpful information to the teacher edition.

Content Update: A new assignment was added to Lesson 1.

Link Updates: Written-out URLs have been removed from the coursebook. Instead, families are directed to visit our curriculum links page.

American Literature: Social Transformations

In this course, students will study how American literature reflects and contributes to social transformations. Presenting a diverse set of voices, the course centers on the intersection of literature, history, and current events. Learn More >

World Literature: Africa and Beyond

This course will explore the experience of being at home in the world as well as the experience of losing one’s place. Each of the novels in this course is a unique coming-of-age story set in Africa and beyond. The themes of home, exile, and refuge are woven throughout, and each work of fiction is a window into real-life issues experienced throughout the world today. Learn More >

Critical Media Literacy

This course helps students develop the analytic tools needed to examine media content and make more informed choices as an active audience. Critical media literacy is grounded in social activism because it is inherently about making change. Studying media critically and learning how the media industries operate in the world often leads to changes in personal media consumption. Learn More >

These changes are present effective January 1, 2023

Grade 1

Grade 1 Resource Book

Story Updates: Revisions have been made to two stories in the Resource Book, Lesson 25’s “George and the Big Storm” and Lesson 34’s “The Busy Bees.”

Grade 2

Grade 2 Coursebook

Link Update: Removed broken curriculum link from the Further Study section in Lesson 5

Grade 3

Grade 3 Resource Book

Content Updates: A page of cursive script has been added to the introduction to Language Arts. We also corrected a math problem in Practice Set 4 to remove a problem that requires students to divide by zero.

Grade 4

Grade 4 Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Materials Updates: Jeweler’s loupes have been removed from the required materials for grade 4.

Content Updates: In Lesson 24, the assignment summary for science has been corrected for accuracy. In the teacher manual, the wording has been changed to clarify that the parent planner is not included in the Grade 4 Curriculum Package.

Grade 5

Grade 5 English/U.S. History Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Content Updates: We corrected a misplaced instruction for short story writing, moving it from Lessons 13 & 14 to Lessons 11 & 12 where the assignment is located.

In preparation for short story writing, we added a definition of patriot/loyalist.

Finally, we moved the Paul Revere assignment to match the reading for Social Studies.

Grade 6

Grade 6 English Coursebook

Content Updates: For 2023, the instruction in the English Manual (located in the coursebook’s appendix) has been also added to the lesson reading material.

In the introduction for Lesson 4, we removed the summary of the writing process since this information is also located elsewhere in the lesson.

For Lesson 11, we added an introductory sentence to the grammar section.

Grade 6 Ancient Civilizations Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Minor Corrections: We fixed a small typo in the Coursebook header. For Lesson 27, we changed the “Activity” header to “Assignments.”

Grade 6 Science Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Content Updates: We improved the materials list and description for Lesson 7 choice assignment C, “Soil Squirmers.”

Grade 7

Grade 7 Science Coursebook

Minor Corrections: In Lesson 7, we fixed a minor typo in the reading section.

Grade 7 World History Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Minor Corrections: In Lesson 2, we fixed a minor typo in Assignment 3.

Grade 7 Math Coursebook & Workbook

Minor Corrections: We corrected a misspelling of “principal” that occurred throughout the coursebook and workbook.

In Lesson 10, we corrected a typo in an example math problem.

In Lesson 7 of the workbook, we corrected a typo in word problem #16.

Grade 8

Grade 8 Civics Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Minor Corrections: In Lesson 5/6, we added a sentence to Assignment #1 about where to find curriculum resource links.

Grade 8 Science Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Link Update: In Lesson 10, we removed the “Braking and Friction” activity due to a broken link.

Content Update: In Lesson 28, we corrected a calculation in the Teacher Manual for Test #1.b answer.

Grade 8 English Coursebook & Teacher Manual

Content Updates: Two new novels were added to help increase the diversity of authors and characters in this course, The Magnolia Sword by Sherry Thomas and Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson. These novels replaced Moon Over Manifest (Lesson 11-14) and Criss Cross (Lesson 31-34).

In Lesson 34, we added a discussion prompt to tie the literature content more clearly to the themes covered in Civics.

High School English Courses

American Literature: Classics

Design & Format Updates: We updated the design and layout of this course to match our other high school courses. We also added the subtitle “Classics” to differentiate this course from our other American Literature courses.

Content Updates: We added assignment summaries and learning objectives to the beginning of each lesson.

World Literature: Classics

Design & Format Updates: We updated the design and layout of this course to match our other high school courses. We also added the subtitle “Classics” to differentiate this course from our other World Literature courses.

Content Updates: We added assignment summaries and learning objectives to the beginning of each lesson.

The Hero’s Journey: Literature & Composition

Content Updates: The literature selections in this course were changed: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko and Where We Come From by Oscar Cásares were added to the course.

Women’s Literature

Minor Corrections: We made minor corrections throughout that did not impact the content of the course.

High School Science Courses

Environmental Science for a Changing World

Content Updates: This course was updated to align with the new edition of the textbook Environmental Science: Your World, Your Turn. Additionally, we made some minor updates to assignments or lessons throughout to provide more complete and clear instructions.

Biology: The Study of Life

Minor Corrections: We added a content warning for the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. We also corrected a page number in Lesson 5.

Chemistry Matters

Minor Corrections: We made changes to Lesson 3 assignments in order to simplify the problems and to make the explanatory text more clear for home teachers.

High School Social Studies

Foodways: Sustainable Food Systems

Link Update: We removed a broken link in the Viewing Section of Lesson 5.

U.S. Government: By the People, For the People

Link Update: We updated a link in the project resources for Lesson 4.