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A comprehensive program in world and American history and geography, integrating topics in civics and the arts, Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) helps students build knowledge of the diverse civilizations, cultures, and concepts specified in the Core Knowledge Sequence.
CKHG for Social Studies or Language Arts
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For Social Studies: Used in their recommended sequence, CKHG materials can form the basis of an engaging Social Studies program that builds historical and geographical knowledge and skills grade by grade.
For Language Arts: You can also use CKHG to integrate content-rich nonfiction into your Reading/Language Arts lessons. CKHG objectives are correlated with the Common Core English Language Arts standards, which call for increased reading of nonfiction informational texts. With CKHG, you can take an interdisciplinary approach to reading that provides rich, meaningful, and sustained engagement with informational texts organized in a coherent sequence.
CKHG Components
Student Readers: richly illustrated and engagingly written
Teacher Guides: with detailed lesson plans, activity page masters, additional activities, and assessments
Timeline Cards: visual aids to reinforce big ideas, chronology, and context
NOTE: If you downloaded a CKHG Teacher Guide prior to March 1, 2017, please download again to receive files with updated links to CKHG Online Resources.
Free Downloadable Resources
Download a List of CKHG Titles in 3-5
CKHG materials are available for free download. New units are in development and will be added when ready. Please review the Terms of Use for free materials.
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Mar 2023
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The mission of the Core Knowledge Foundation is to advance excellence and equity in education for all children.
To achieve this mission, we offer detailed curricular guidance and materials to schools, teachers, parents, and policy makers—to anyone who believes, as we do, that every child in a diverse democracy deserves access to enabling knowledge.
By providing open access to an exemplary curriculum for preschool through eighth grade, we endeavor to:
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Knowledge-based schooling opens doors to enabling knowledge, which in turn opens doors to productive and responsible citizenship.
To support knowledge-based schooling, the Core Knowledge Foundation has since its founding worked to identify and make available the knowledge and skills essential to the development of literacy and responsible citizenship. The results of this ongoing effort are presented in the Core Knowledge Sequence, the blueprint for a coherent, cumulative, and content-specific curriculum in preschool through eighth grade.
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As Core Knowledge founder E. D. Hirsch, Jr., explains in Why Knowledge Matters, “Only a well-rounded, knowledge-specific curriculum can impart needed knowledge to all children and overcome inequality of opportunity.”
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