21st Century Curriculum

For an overview of education in the 21st century please read our always evolving essay, What is 21st Century Education? Curriculum design at 21st Century Schools is focused on bringing your classrooms into alignment with life in the new millennium. We design (and conduct professional development on how to design) what are commonly known as "units"; we prefer to use the term frameworks. They are created with a built-in flexibility that allows them to be adapted to the needs and interests of your students, teachers and community. There are several sample units below.

Creating the 21st Century Curriculum - Integrated, Thematic, Interdisciplinary, . .

Web 2.0 Tools
Project-Based Learning
Multiple Intelligences
Multiple Literacies
Brain Research and Learning (coming soon)

Themes
Sample Units
- Food and Culture - a Global, Collaborative Classrooms Project
- Money - Financial Literacy for First Grade!
- Civil Rights - an Interdisciplinary, Multicultural Investigation of the Evolution of Civil Rights in the United States
- Our Community and the Environment
- Kingdom Animalia - a Study of the Biomes of Planet Earth
- Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath (intro and outline) can be used to create units on disaster preparedness or many other related topics. Please view the 3 powerful PPT videos developed around this theme.
- Candy- How Sweet It Is, and Was! (intro and outline)
- Global Johnny Appleseed Project (intro and outline)