Common Core and Curriculum Resources: Common Core and Curriculum Resources

Click on the resources below to see how they work.  Click on the button to the left of your favorite resource.

Check out these sample Common Core searches, but first read the handout for faculty

1. Make sure that the Standards subscription service has been turned on for your site.  If it doesn't appear in the left-hand column on your site's Catalog tab when you are logged in, you will need to log on to your site with Administrator privileges.  Then go to the Back Office, click on Site Configuration in the left-hand column, and choose the Site Info tab.  Scroll down the page, click in the box to the left of Standards, and Save your change in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
2. In your site's Back Office, add the ability to Search Standards to each Access Level that will need it.  Start with the Library Administrator Access Level and then the Teacher Access Level.  If your faculty does not log into Destiny, you will also need to add it to the Guest Access Level.  You can find this setting in the first tab for each Access Level under Library Catalog Search Access.

Once you have set up access to your Standards subscription:

1. Choose Standards from the left-hand column on the Catalog tab.
2. Select your standards source from the drop-down list - Common Core or Rhode Island.  Use the [Location] drop-down box to select to retrieve the supporting materials from your library, a library level, or all of RILINK.
3. To find complete sets of standards, benchmarks, or indicators relating to specific concepts within a subject and grade, choose Browse.  To find one or more standards that pertain to a particular topic or skill, choose Search.
4. Selecting the standards source and entering a search term are required; limiting by subject and grade are optional. Because the grade divisions in the list depend on the subject, you must select a subject before selecting a grade level.
5. Try these sample searches:

         Browse to College- and Career-Readiness Standards and K-12 English Language Arts - Common Core State Standards - 2010 [K-12], then pick a grade level.  Choose Reading, then RI Informational Text.  Now click on [Find it].  The resulting page has two tabs, one for web resources, and one for items from your collection, or the group of libraries that you chose.

         Search to [Find] fractions, choosing Mathematics as a subject and a grade level from the drop-down lists.  Click on [Search] and Destiny will display matching standards.  To see the web resources and items from your collection that address one of the matching standards, click on [Find it] next to that standard. The resulting page has two tabs, one for web resources, and one for items from your collection, or the group of libraries that you chose.

Standards searching allows for Boolean searches.  It does not use "wild cards" but does "root searching".  It ignores special characters and common stop words.

For more help on Standards searching, go to Destiny online help.