Standards & sources

LearnSpark aligns lessons to official curriculum standards wherever an openly-licensed source is available. We align by each standard's code — a factual identifier that is not subject to copyright — and, for the plain-language descriptions families see, we generally use wording authored by LearnSpark rather than reproducing a standards body's own text. Where we do rely on a source's material, that source is credited below as its licence requires.

Australian Curriculum (ACARA)

Australia — all learning areas, Foundation–Year 10 · licensed CC BY 4.0

Based on the Australian Curriculum. © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) 2010 to present, unless otherwise indicated, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The Australian Curriculum is regularly updated; refer to the ACARA website for the current version. ACARA does not endorse LearnSpark or any product that uses the Australian Curriculum, and makes no representations as to its quality or accuracy.

Common Core State Standards

United States — Mathematics and English Language Arts

Mathematics and English Language Arts standards are © the Common Core State Standards Initiative and are used under the Common Core public licence, which permits use in commercial products provided the following notice is retained:

© Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.

United States — state standards

Per-state standards alignment (codes)

Where LearnSpark aligns to a US state's standards, the standard codes are sourced from published state education-agency frameworks (via the Learning Commons Knowledge Graph and 1EdTech). LearnSpark aligns to these standards by code and authors its own plain-language skill descriptions; it does not reproduce the standards bodies' statement text. Some states' standards (for example, science standards derived from the Next Generation Science Standards, and standards published under NonCommercial licences) are used for code-level alignment only.

National Curriculum in England

United Kingdom (England)

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: the National Curriculum in England, © Crown copyright, Department for Education.

LearnSpark learning progressions

New Zealand, India, Nepal, Ontario (Canada), and skill descriptions throughout

Where an official, openly-licensed curriculum is not available for a country, lessons are anchored to LearnSpark's own year-level learning progressions rather than to an official curriculum. These progressions are authored by LearnSpark and are not presented as any government's official standards.

For Ontario, Canada, lessons align to the Ontario elementary curriculum framework, but the plain-language descriptions families see are authored by LearnSpark; it does not reproduce material published by the King's Printer for Ontario.

Next Generation Science Standards

United States — Science

LearnSpark's science coverage references the performance-expectation codes of the Next Generation Science Standards; the descriptions and skill breakdowns families see are authored by LearnSpark. “Next Generation Science Standards” and the NGSS logo are registered trademarks of WestEd. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of, and do not endorse, this product.

Health & physical education

United States

Health education coverage references the National Health Education Standards indicator codes, used with attribution: © 2022 National Consensus for School Health Education. Physical education coverage references SHAPE America's National Physical Education Standards by indicator number; the descriptions families see are authored by LearnSpark, and SHAPE America does not endorse LearnSpark.

The arts

United States

Arts coverage references the National Core Arts Standards: National Core Arts Standards © 2014 National Coalition for Core Arts Standards. Descriptions are authored by LearnSpark; the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards does not endorse LearnSpark.

Computer science & languages

United States

Computer-science coverage references the CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards by code (© Computer Science Teachers Association, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); all descriptors are LearnSpark's own. World-language coverage uses LearnSpark's own standards, informed by the organising principles of the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards; ACTFL's text is not reproduced and ACTFL does not endorse LearnSpark.

Kōwhiti Whakapae early learning

New Zealand — early learning (before Year 0)

Early-learning progressions for New Zealand are sourced from Kōwhiti Whakapae, Ministry of Education (New Zealand), used under CC BY 3.0 NZ. Material may have been reformatted for presentation within LearnSpark.

A note on standard codes

Standard codes (for example, “3.NF.A.3.a”) are factual identifiers within a classification system and are not subject to copyright. LearnSpark uses these codes to track how a child is progressing against their curriculum.

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