CS Viewer

Viewer for Common Core State Standards

How-to

If the course has curriculum units and GLE's:

• Click in the field to the right of "Curriculum Unit:" and select the Unit to be taught with the lesson.

Click "OK".

• A list of activities that go along with the unit will appear after clicking ok. Select the activities to be taught with the lesson.

Click "OK".

• A list of GLE's associated with the Unit will appear. Select the GLE's to be taught with the lesson.

At the bottom of GLE selection page is two options. Simply click "OK" to move to the next area or click Append To Objectives to append the GLE's selected to the Objectives area.

If the course selected uses the Common Core:

• Click in the Core Standards field and a list of Content Areas (English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies) will appear on the left of the screen. At this time there are standards only for English Language Arts and Mathematics. Science and Social Studies will be added as they become available.
• At the bottom left of the screen will be a grade level. The default value will be the grade level of the course. The set of standards to be displayed will be based on this value. The grade level can be changed by clicking on the drop down arrow.
• Each Content Area is further divided into one or more Domains.
• Each Domain has one or more Clusters. After selecting a Cluster, the standards will be listed on the right side of the screen with a light brown background color.
• To select a standard, click the green plus sign at the top left corner of the standard. The background color will change to a blue background and the green plus sign will change to a red X.
• The selected standard(s) will appear at the bottom of the screen.
• To unselect a standard, click the red X. The background color will return to the original light brown and the red X will be replaced with the original green plus sign.
• To save the selected standards, click the Submit button at the bottom right of the window.
• The standards selection window goes away. The Lesson window will be on the screen with the selected standards listed in the Core Standards field.