# Curriculum Designed for Future-Ready Skills

Wayfinder offers 14 years of vertically aligned, research-backed curriculum to enliven learning and help students build future-ready skills.

### Our lessons are evidence-based, research-backed, and proven to help students grow more purposeful and engaged.

### Research-Backed Lessons

14 Years of Lessons With Less Than 5 Minutes of Prep

- **PK**: Building Community + Caring for Others  
- **Kindergarten**: Exploring Feelings + Actions  
- **1st Grade**: Caring for Ourselves + Others  
- **2nd Grade**: Growing + Understanding Ourselves  
- **3rd Grade**: Creating Connections + Fostering Curiosity  
- **4th Grade**: Building Confidence + Community  
- **5th Grade**: Building Empowered + Engaged Leaders  
- **6th Grade**: Belonging Foundations  
- **7th Grade**: Belonging 1: Self  
- **8th Grade**: Belonging 2: Community  
- **9th Grade**: Belonging 3: Action  
- **10th Grade**: Purpose 1: Self  
- **11th Grade**: Purpose 2: Community  
- **12th Grade**: Purpose 3: Action

### Elementary School Core Lessons

Play-based foundational skill-building  
- 20 lessons per year, 20 minutes per lesson  
- Available as a series of engaging print workbooks

### Middle School Core Lessons

Designed to build belonging, an essential piece of middle school culture  
- 26 lessons per year, 30 minutes per lesson  
- Available digitally and in print

### High School Core Lessons

Prepares your students for post-secondary success  
- 23 lessons per year, 30 minutes per lesson  
- Available digitally and in print

### Wayfinder's Six Core Skills for PreK-12

Wayfinder's research-backed Core Skills incorporate meaning-making, critical thinking, and future-ready skills to connect classroom learning to the real world

[Learn More](/content/why-wayfinder/what-students-learn/index.html)

## Download a sample to see our lessons in action!

Your sample will include:

- **Lessons**  
- **Activities**  
- **Scope + Sequences**  
- **Getting Started Video**

[Get Samples](/content/resources/sample-curriculum/index.html)
