Students in Core Knowledge schools know a lot, because they are offered a coherent sequence of specific knowledge that builds year by year. Classify materials according to whether they are attracted to a magnet. Names and common examples of the three states of matter. Examine water as an example of changing states of matter in a single substance. Atoms form molecules and compounds.
Energy is conserved in a system.
Heat and temperature. Expansion and contraction. The Core Knowledge Sequence is the result of research into the content and structure of the highest performing elementary school systems around the world, as well as extensive consensus-building among diverse groups and interests, including parents, teachers, scientists, professional curriculum organizations, and experts from the Core Knowledge Foundation's advisory board on multicultural traditions. Provisional versions of the Sequence were reviewed and revised by panels of teachers, and in 1990 a national conference was convened at which twenty-four working groups hammered out a draft sequence. This draft was fine-tuned during a year of implementation at Three Oaks Elementary in Ft.