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The K12 Virtual Primary School History Curriculum: A Participant’s-eye View Appendices Susan Ohanian Independent Researcher Education Policy Research Unit (EPRU) Education Policy Studies Laboratory College of Education Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Box 872411 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-2411 April 2004 POLICY STUDIES LABORATORY EPSL | EDUCATION Education Policy Research Unit EPSL-0404-117-EPRU http://edpolicylab.org Education Policy Studies Laboratory Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies College of Education, Arizona State University P.O. Box 872411, Tempe, AZ 85287-2411 Telephone: (480) 965-1886 Fax: (480) 965-0303 E-mail: [email protected] http://edpolicylab.org APPENDIX A Outline of the K12, Inc. Kindergarten History Curriculum 1. Our World 1. 2. 3. 4. 2. Australia: The Land Down Under 1. 2. 3. 3. The Amazon Rain Forest It Came from Brazil High in the Andes On the Pampas Antarctica: The Frozen Continent 1. 2. 8. Life in the Sahara Southern Africa and the Kalahari Desert The African Savannah Central Africa and the Congo Rain Forest African Villages and Cities South American Scenes 1. 2. 3. 4. 7. Slow Boat Through China Living in China A Tour of Japan Japan: Of Peaches & Puppets Into India The Arabian Peninsula An African Safari 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Let’s Visit Spain Let’s Visit England Let’s Visit France Let’s Visit Ireland Germany & the Brothers Grimm Let’s Visit the Netherlands Asia: The Asian Adventure 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 5. Animals of the Outback Outback and City Under the Sea in theh Land Down Under Europe: Many Countries, Many Stories 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 4. Our Earth Our Home Name the Continent Moving in the Right Direction Get Ready to Travel Land of Ice and Snow Penguins in Antarctica North America: From Maple Leaf to Cactus Branch 1. 2. 3. Oh, Canada! Here We Go to Mexico, Part 1 Here We Go to Mexico, Part 2 Page 34 of 40 4. 9. This Land Is Your Land America the Beautiful 1. 2. From Sea to Shining Sea, Part 1 From Sea to Shining Sea, Part 2 10. The First Americans 1. 2. 3. The Anasazi of the Southwest The Plains Indians Indians of the Eastern Woodlands 11. A New World 1. 2. 3. 4. Christopher Columbus The Pilgrims’ First Thanksgiving Thirteen English Colonies and the Story of William Penn Junipero Serra in California 12. Becoming Our Own Nation 1. 2. 3. 4. “Yankee Doodle”—The American Revolution Betsy Ross and the First American Flag George Washington Thomas Jefferson 13. A Nation Grows Up 1. 2. 3. 4. Johnny Appleseed Lewis & Clark & Sacagawea Paul Bunyan Sequoyah’s Great Invention 14. Liberty and Justice For All 1. 2. 3. 4. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad “Honest Abe”: Abraham Lincoln Susan B. Anthony: Women’s Rights 15. America on the Move 1. 2. 3. 4. Laura Ingalls Wilder John Henry and the Railroad The Statue of Liberty Immigrants to America 16. Doers and Dreamers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Thomas Alva Edison Theodore Roosevelt George Washington Carver Jane Addams and Hull-House Andrew Carnegie The Wright Brothers: First to Fly 17. Let Freedom Ring 1. 2. 3. 4. Eleanor Roosevelt: “First Lady of the World” Jackie Robinson Cesar Chavez: “Yes, it can be done!” Rose Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Page 35 of 40 APPENDIX B Outline of the K12, Inc. First Grade History Curriculum 1. Getting Around This Great Big World 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 2. Early Civilizations 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 3. Pyramids and Ziggurats Sargon Conquers Mesopotamia Abraham Goes to Canaan Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors The Israelites The Tower of Babel Hammurabi: The Fair King A Mesopotamian Myth: The Legend of Gilgamesh Rivers as Roads in Mesopotamia Ancient Kingdoms Rise and Fall 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 5. Nomads: Wandering Families Nomads Settle in the Fertile Crescent The First Villages Egyptians Lived Along the Nile River Gods of Ancient Egypt Egypt Becomes One Country Hieroglyphics More Early Writing Mummies The Great Pyramid Tutankhamen—King Tut The Egyptian Cinderella The Rise of Ancient Empires 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 4. Getting Around the Globe Way to Go: Directions Our world: The Lay of the Land What Is History? What is Archaeology? Egypt Weak and Strong A Woman as Pharaoh Ramses II: the Great Builder Moses in the Basket The Exodus from Egypt David, Israel’s Second King Solomon, the Wise King The Warrior Who Built a Library Back to Babylon Ishtar and Tammuz: A Babylonian Myth Ancient Greece, Part I: The Land and the Myths 1. 2. 3. 4. Ancient Crete Theseus and the Minotaur Life in Ancient Greece The Greek Gods Page 36 of 40 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 6. Ancient Greece, Part II: From Athens to Alexander 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 7. Athena Gets a City Athens and Democracy Sparta: Be Brave and Strong Persia Rising: Darius on the Move The Battle of Marathon The Battle of Thermopylae The Golden Age of Athens: Pericles Lovers of Wisdom Greeks Fight Each Other: The Peloponnesian War Young Alexander Alexander the Great Ancient India 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. The Judgment of Paris The Trojan War: Part 1 The Trojan War: Part 2 Homer’s Great Greek Epics Let the Olympic Games Begin Greek Myths: Arachne and King Midas Greek eroes: Perseus & Hercules The Mystery of Mohenjo-Daro Ancient Hinduism The Ganges River The Ramayana Siddhartha Gautama: The Buddha Asoka and the Spread of Buddhism A Jataka Tale: The Monkey King Ancient China 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Farming in Ancient China Early China: The Discovery of Silk Chinese Calligraphy Confucius: The Wise Teacher The Emperor Builds a Wall The Tomb of Qin Shi Huang Di The Han Dynasty Page 37 of 40 APPENDIX C Outline of the K12, Inc. Second Grade History Curriculum 1. Getting Around This Great Big World 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 2. Ancient Rome 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 3. Pax Romana Birth of Jesus Beginnings of Christianity Nero and the Burning of Rome Eruption of Mount Vesuvius Bread and Circuses: Roman Amusements Rome Divides and Falls 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 6. Meet Julius Caesar Crossing the Rubicon Caesar Meets Cleopatra 4. I Came, I saw, I Conquered The Death of Caesar The First Roman Emperor Roman Empire and Roman Peace 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 5. Romulus and Remus Horatius at the Bridge Roman Republic and Cincinatus Roman God and Goddesses The Myth of Ceres and Prosperina Roman Builders Caesar to Augustus 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 4. Getting Around the Globe Way to Go: Directions Our World: The Lay of the Land What Is History? What Is Archaeology? The Story of Saint Valentine Rome Divides in Two Constantine the Chrsitian Emperor The Coming of the Barbarians Attila the Hun The Fall of Rome Byzantium Rises 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The Contributions of Rome Constantinople: The New Rome Justinian, the Just Emperor theodora: Acress to Empress Hagia Sophia Nicholas: The Children’s Saint Page 38 of 40 7. The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. The Rise of Islam 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 9. The Barbarians Stake Their Claims Angles and Saxons in Britain How Arthur Became King Guinevere Wins Arthur’s Heart A New Role for the Christian Church Life in a Monestary Muhammad and the Beginning of Islam Mecca: The Holy City of Islam Islam Becomes an Empire Many Mosques A Muslim Story: The Hundredth Name Baghdad: The Jewel of Learning A World in Turmoil 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Threat from the North: Viking Warriors on the Move Viking Shipbuilders and Explorers Viking Life Viking Gods and Goddesses Buried in Style The Normans Invade England 10. The Feudal World 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. What Was Feudalism? Building a Castle Life in a Castle What is Knighthood? A Famous Knight: St. George and the Dragon Supposing You Were a Serf 11. Crusades Abroad and Changes in Europe 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Command from the Pope Richard the Lion-Hearted and Saladin The Legend of Robin Hood King John and the Magna Carta The Hundred Years War Joan of Arc: The Girl Who Saved France 12. Medieval African Empires 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Welcome to Africa Ghana: Gold Kingdom Sundiata: Liong King of Mali Mansa Musa of Mali Alll the Way to Timbuktu Ibn Battuta: An Amazing Traveler 13. Medieval China 1. 2. 3. 4. Remembering Ancient China The Grand Canal Buddhism in China The Trading Tang: The Silk Road Page 39 of 40 5. 6. Mulan The Inventive Song Dynasty 14. Feudal Japan 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Japan: The Island Kingdom Shinto, An Ancient Japanese Religion Buddhism in Japan Feudal Japan Life of a Samurai Kublai Khan Attacks—Twice! Page 40 of 40