K–8 Math and Science for Your Homeschool
A ready-made year plan for every grade: 1,771 short narrated lessons with pictures and quizzes, in the order kids learn them. Your child can work on their own while you see exactly what they finished.
A plan for the whole year
Units, chapters and lessons in order for each grade, with chapter reviews and unit tests.
Kids can work on their own
Every lesson is read aloud with the words lighting up, so even early readers don't need you beside them.
Quizzes that teach
A hint and a second try before the answer, and an explanation every time.
Records you can keep
See finished lessons, quiz scores and time spent for each child. A Learning Record for attendance logs is coming in the next update.
School anywhere
Download a unit or a whole course for field trips, travel and days without internet.
Every child, their own grade
A profile for each child with their own grade, progress, stars and streaks.
Scope and sequence
Every unit for every grade. Tap a grade to see its lessons.
| Grade | ➕ Math | 🔬 Science |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 8 units · 70 lessonsNumbers 0 to 5 · Numbers 6 to 10 · Shapes All Around · Addition Within 10 · Subtraction Within 10 · Numbers 11 to 20 · Counting to 100 · Measure and Sort | 4 units · 61 lessonsWeather and the Sun · Pushes and Pulls · Living Things and Their Needs · Caring for Our Earth |
| Grade 1 | 7 units · 78 lessonsAddition and Subtraction Stories · Working with Equations · Numbers to 120 · Adding and Subtracting Tens · Measurement and Time · Data · Shapes and Equal Shares | 6 units · 70 lessonsPatterns in the Sky · Sound · Light · Talking Across Distances · Plant and Animal Parts · Parents and Young |
| Grade 2 | 9 units · 90 lessonsAddition and Subtraction Fluency · Place Value to 1,000 · Adding and Subtracting Within 100 · Adding and Subtracting Within 1,000 · Measuring Length · Time and Money · Data and Graphs · Getting Ready to Multiply · Shapes and Fractions | 4 units · 62 lessonsProperties of Matter · Building and Changing Matter · Plants and Animals Together · Earth's Land and Water |
| Grade 3 | 7 units · 110 lessonsIntroducing Multiplication · Area and Multiplication · Adding and Subtracting within 1,000 · Multiplication and Division · Fractions · Measurement and Data · Shapes and Perimeter | 5 units · 99 lessonsLife Cycles · Traits · Habitats and Survival · Weather and Climate · Forces, Motion and Magnets |
| Grade 4 | 9 units · 119 lessonsPlace Value and Big Numbers · Multiplicative Comparison and Factors · Multiplying Multi-Digit Numbers · Dividing Multi-Digit Numbers · Fraction Equivalence and Comparison · Adding, Subtracting and Multiplying Fractions · Decimals · Measurement · Angles and Shapes | 7 units · 110 lessonsEnergy · Energy Resources · Waves and Information · Light and the Senses · Structures of Living Things · Earth's Changing Surface · Natural Hazards |
| Grade 5 | 8 units · 113 lessonsVolume · Expressions and Whole Number Operations · Place Value with Decimals · Decimal Operations · Adding and Subtracting Fractions · Multiplying and Dividing Fractions · Coordinate Plane and Patterns · Classifying Shapes | 7 units · 113 lessonsMatter and Its Properties · Changes in Matter · Energy and Food · Ecosystems · Earth's Systems · Protecting Earth · Space Systems |
| Grade 6 | 8 units · 117 lessonsArea and Surface Area · Introducing Ratios · Unit Rates and Percentages · Dividing Fractions · Working with Decimals and Whole Numbers · Expressions and Equations · Rational Numbers · Statistics | 7 units · 115 lessonsEarth, Moon and Sun · Gravity and the Solar System · Earth's History · Earth's Changing Surface · Water, Weather and Climate · Earth's Resources and Hazards · People and the Planet |
| Grade 7 | 6 units · 117 lessonsOperations with Rational Numbers · Expressions and Equations · Ratios and Proportional Relationships · Geometry · Statistics · Probability | 6 units · 109 lessonsCells: The Basis of Life · Energy and Matter in Organisms · Ecosystems · Growth and Reproduction · Heredity · Evolution and Adaptation |
| Grade 8 | 8 units · 114 lessonsReal Numbers and Exponents · Transformations and Congruence · Linear Equations · Functions · Systems of Linear Equations · The Pythagorean Theorem · Volume · Bivariate Data | 5 units · 104 lessonsStructure of Matter · Chemical Reactions · Forces and Motion · Energy · Waves and Information |
See which standards each chapter covers on the standards page.
Homeschool questions
Is Kids Shelf a complete homeschool curriculum?
Kids Shelf covers a full year of math and science for each grade from Kindergarten to Grade 8, plus read-aloud reading practice. Families pair it with their own language arts, writing and history.
Do lessons follow standards?
Yes. Math follows the Common Core State Standards and science follows NGSS. See the standards page for every code and the chapters that teach it.
How long is a lesson?
Most lessons take about 4 to 6 minutes, so a few lessons make a focused school session for younger children.
Can my child work at a different grade?
Yes. You can set and change each child’s grade at any time, to catch up or work ahead.
Does it work without internet?
Yes. Download a unit or a whole course, and lessons and quizzes work offline.
Try these lessons in Kids Shelf
Narrated lessons, pictures and quizzes for every grade from K to 8. Works offline.
