STRIDE Academy teaches
Core Knowledge to ensure students receive a strong foundation of the basics. Here's a sample - one subject for each grade - to show the specific content requirements of the curriculum. Teachers are free to teach the subject matter as creatively as they like, but the content is specified and builds from year to year.
- Kindergarten: History - overview of the seven continents, Native American peoples (past and present), early exploration, presidents
- First Grade: World History - early civilization; Ancient Egypt-the Nile River, pharaohs, pyramids, mummies, and hieroglyphics
- Second Grade: American History - U.S. Constitution; civil Rights: women's roles (Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, et al); equality: (Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, et al.); Geography of the Americas
- Third Grade: Math - fractions to one-tenth, numerator and denominator, mixed numbers, equivalent fractions; introduction to geometrical concepts
- Fourth Grade: Human body - circulatory and respiratory systems; Chemistry- atoms, matter, elements, solutions; science biographies
- Fifth Grade: American History and Geography - westward exploration and expansion, Daniel Boone, the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, land and water routes, major rivers, American Indian resistance, Manifest Destiny
- Sixth Grade: Art History - periods and schools (Classical, Renaissance, Rococo, Romantic, et al.)
- Seventh Grade: Music-classical music, romantics, and nationalists (Brahms, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, et al.); American musical traditions-blues and jazz
- Eighth Grade: Language Arts - novels and stories such as Animal Farm; The Good Earth; "The Bet"; "The Open Boat"; Writing the research essay- organizing with an outline, quoting materials from secondary sources, summarizing and paraphrasing, acknowledging sources and avoiding plagiarism, preparing a bibliography