Do the Common Core Curriculum Maps comprise a complete curriculum?
The maps do not comprise a complete curriculum, nor do they prescribe how teachers are to teach the material included in the maps. The maps are curriculum planning documents that teachers can use as a resource for making their own more detailed curricula and lesson plans. Most grades contain six unit maps. Each unit map contains a set of CCSS standards that the map addresses, a unit overview that describes the skills and content that the unit covers, an essential question that the unit seeks to answer, specific student objectives, suggested texts, sample student activities and assessments, a list of essential terminology, and links to additional instructional resources from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other organizations. Whenever possible, the “suggested texts” have been taken from the CCSS exemplar texts list.
