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Colorado's District Sample Curriculum Project
By Content Area

Initial Samples Released January 31, 2013

By clicking on the desired content area below, you can access all of the samples for that content area. By scrolling down to the list below, you can also access the grade-level-specific samples for a given content area.

Dance     Drama and Theatre Arts     Comprehensive Health     Mathematics     Music    Physical Education

Reading, Writing, and Communicating     Science     Social Studies     Visual Arts     World Languages     STEM

To learn more about this project please visit the following pages:

Curriculum Project Introduction

Curriculum Project Framework

Content Specific Curriculum Sample Pages

Curriculum Samples Organized by Grade Level

Questions related to Colorado's District Sample Curriculum Project should be directed to Brian Sevier.

Click here to access resources that provide overviews of Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project and the template utilized in the creation of these curriculum samples.

Click here for information on the creation of curriculum samples based on the preschool standards of the Colorado Academic Standards.

Dance

Drama and Theatre Arts

  • High School
    • Part One: Scripted Works, Character Development, Technical Theatre
      (Word or PDF)
    • Part Two: Ensemble Building, Sketch Comedy, Acting Styles, Theatre History
      (Word or PDF)
    • Film/Media Arts
      (Word or PDF)
  • 8th Grade (Word or PDF)
  • 7th Grade (Word or PDF)
  • 6th Grade (Word or PDF)
  • 5th Grade (Word or PDF)
  • 4th Grade (Word or PDF)
  • 3rd Grade (Word or PDF)
  • 2nd Grade (Word or PDF)
  • 1st Grade (Word or PDF)
  • Kindergarten (Word or PDF)

 

Comprehensive Health

 

Physical Education

 

Mathematics

Music

 

Reading, Writing and Communicating

Science

 

Social Studies

 

Visual Arts

World Languages Units

  • Intermediate-Mid
    • What do I want to be when I grow up? (Word or PDF)
    • Invention and Innovation (Word or PDF)
  • Intermediate-Low
  • Novice-High
  • Novice-Mid
  • Novice-Low

STEM

  • High School
    • When Bodies Collide (Word or PDF)
  • Middle School
    • Designing a Safer World - 8th Grade (Word or PDF)
  • Elementary School
    • Classification in our World - 1st Grade (Word or PDF)

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