Louisiana Foundations of Freedom
Foundations of Freedom is a high school civics curriculum developed in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education. This curriculum integrates civics, history, geography, and economics in alignment with the student expectations of the 2022 Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies.
Foundation of Freedom Curriculum Components
- Student Volumes: engaging narrative text interspersed with primary source excerpts, editorial cartoons, maps, graphs, and charts
- Teacher Guides: instructional support, suggested activities, and topic and unit assessments
- DBQ Workbook: additional primary source activities, to be used independently or in conjunction with the Student Volume primary sources
- Instructional Slide Decks: Google slides featuring images from the Student Volume and teacher notes; for use as a planning, lecture, and/or review tool
- Online Resources: suggested pacing, background information for teachers, resources such as videos to support student reading
Download Free Foundations of Freedom Materials
Foundations of Freedom curriculum materials are available for free download. Be sure to review the Terms of Use below for free materials.
More About Foundations of Freedom
Standards Alignment
Foundations of Freedom is aligned with the student expectations of the 2022 Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies for Civics. To learn more about those standards, please refer to the Student Standards document published by the Louisiana Department of Education.
Professional Learning for Foundations of Freedom
The Core Knowledge Foundation is an approved provider of professional learning surrounding Foundations of Freedom. If you are interested in learning more, contact us at professionaldevelopment@coreknowledge.org.
Civics Coursework Alignment
Foundations of Freedom aligns to the High School Civics Course Framework created by the Louisiana Department of Education.
Additional Instructional Support
The Louisiana Department of Education has created additional supports for educators implementing Foundations of Freedom.
Terms of Use
The Core Knowledge History and Geography curriculum materials made available for download are freely available for anyone to use, adapt, and share (with attribution). No one is permitted to extract any images included in our PDF materials for use in any other way; to do so would be a violation of the agreements under which the images were licensed. No one is permitted to sell either the original program, an adaptation of it, or lesson plans that reproduce any part of it. For more information, see the Guidelines to Core Knowledge and the Creative Commons License.