Louisiana digital Social Studies curriculum
Subject Area
Social Studies | 2022 Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies
Grades
K-8
Format
Digital and print
Kiddom Core Knowledge Bayou Bridges
Social studies foundations
Kiddom Core Knowledge Foundation® Bayou Bridges introduces students to social studies through exploratory learning, readings, and discourse. Aligned with Louisiana Department of Education's State Standards, Bayou Bridges also fosters conscientious citizenship among students.
Extensive curriculum
Developed in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education for the 2022 K-8 Louisiana State Standards for Social Studies.
Interdisciplinary learning
Advance Louisiana literacy by building explicit content knowledge and disciplinary literacy skills
Engaging resources
Includes activities like artifact studies, primary source examinations, and virtual field trips.
Built for the Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies
The Bayou Bridges units consist of comprehensive lessons designed to provide students with a broad and deep understanding of the world. These plans also aim to help students express well-reasoned and nuanced arguments and prepare them to actively participate in civic life. Each unit is centered around a guiding question and includes engaging texts, photographs, maps, and primary source documents.
Structured learning
Student-friendly unit readers and resources create a consistent structure across all grades and lessons. This helps students and teachers stay on track and work toward a series of unit assessments aligned with end-of-year expectations. Detailed lesson plans provide support that connects specific objectives to Louisiana state standards.
Expert reviewed
These materials advance Louisiana literacy by building explicit content knowledge and disciplinary literacy skills. All units emphasize primary sources and have been reviewed by subject matter experts, typically university professors.
Enhanced with Kiddom
Every teacher tool, digitized
Teacher editions, standards-alignment, materials lists, assignability, and more—every teacher tool you need for speedy, meaningful planning and delivery are here.
Planning, accelerated
Navigate rich curricula with fewer clicks on an intuitive interface that works on any web-capable device. Each curricula contains a vast "teacher toolbox" to help you understand usage, standards alignment, and pedagogical design.
Delivery, simplified
Creating flexible student groups, inserting your own videos and text, printing on-demand, assigning activities for independent learning, and orchestrating dynamic synchronous classwork has never been easier–or faster.
Assessment made meaningful
Drill down to individual student mastery or zoom out to see school-wide grades by standard. From broad to granular, you'll find clear data that paves the path to student success.
Always in your corner
From onboarding to effective implementation, we're your partners every step of the way with in-curriculum chat support, a self-serve knowledge base, and ongoing learning opportunities.
Features teachers love
Varied Assessment
Over 15 question types
Lesson Launch
Synchronous learning with live monitoring
Localization
Create protected district lesson versions
Personalization
Differentiate activities in seconds
Parent resources
Support learning at home
Assignment feedback
Challenging thinking and clarify misconceptions
Unit performance tasks
Expand student thinking and debate
Pacing guides
Layout your entire year's learning
Core Knowledge Foundation is backed by power efficacy data and foundational research into its instructional design.
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