How our courses are built

Built on real standards.
Designed for real kids.

Every Lantern Learn course starts with the question we wish more learning material asked: what does a kid at this age actually need to practice, and what's the smallest, most playful version of that practice? The answer comes from the standards educators already use, not invented in-house.

We build each course against the published frameworks below. Skills aren't sprinkled in for show; every lesson maps to a named standard and a deliberate place on the cognitive ladder. Every course is free, start to finish.

Math & ELA

Common Core State Standards

Our reading, writing, and math practice maps directly to CCSS expectations for each grade, so what kids do in our lessons reinforces what they're doing in class.

Skills progression

Bloom's Taxonomy

We sequence prompts from remember and understand through apply, analyze, and create, so early lessons build fluency and later lessons stretch the thinking.

Science

Coding: CSTA, and science: NGSS

Code Crew and AI Explorers weeks are mapped to the CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards, and AI Explorers follows AI4K12's Five Big Ideas in AI. Science Launch weeks, and the science in Builder's Lab and Astronomy Year, are mapped to the Next Generation Science Standards.

Pacing

Grade-band scaffolding

Lesson length, vocabulary load, and prompt complexity step up predictably across each grade band, so kids stretch without stalling, and parents don't have to translate.

Shaped by the people who use them

Standards alignment gets a course to credible. What gets it to actually used is feedback from parents and teachers. Every course page has a feedback form, and we read every note. Tell us what worked and what didn't at [email protected].