Cornerstone Civics is a print-at-home American civics curriculum for homeschool families, tutors, and co-ops — built for grades 3–5, with every unit written three times, once for each grade. For parents who want kids who understand America, not kids who filled out a worksheet about it.
Accurate · Non-partisan · Screen-free · Used by faith-based and secular families alike
No other civics curriculum does this: every Cornerstone unit is written three times — a Grade 3, a Grade 4, and a Grade 5 edition. Genuine rewrites, not the same pages with bigger fonts. Our game packs take the opposite approach on purpose: built once for grades 3 through 5, so every kid plays at the same table.
Same unit, same dinner-table conversation — each kid working at their own depth.
Older ones help younger ones through the same topic — the fastest way to make it stick.
Clear directions and answer keys mean your 5th grader works through this on their own — while you do phonics with the little one.
Cornerstone isn’t a grades 3–5 shop — it’s a full civics curriculum being built the way things should be built: one grade band at a time, each one done right before the next begins.
How Our Country Works, the Founders Game Pack, and a growing catalog — every product in three grade-true editions.
Same standard, deeper water — the documents, the debates, and how power actually moves.
Full-depth civics for teenagers who are four years from the voting booth.
Why start this young? On the nation’s report card, fewer than one in four 8th graders score proficient in civics. Your kid is going to be the exception.
48 pages · 3 grade editions · answer keys · ink-friendly in B&W · secure checkout via Gumroad · 30-day guarantee
25 pages · 12 founder cards · 7 games & puzzles · answer key · secure checkout via Gumroad · 30-day guarantee
Tiny units, real teaching — the easiest way to try Cornerstone beyond the free lesson.
Who makes the laws, who carries them out, who decides what they mean — a 3-page mini-unit in all three grade editions.
Washington, Franklin & Hamilton — story, facts, and a collectible founder card each. Cards #1–3 of the full deck.
One purchase covers your whole household — every kid, every edition, print as often as you need. Teaching a co-op or classroom? Email hello@cornerstonecivics.com for a group license.
Instant PDF downloads — no shipping, no login, no subscription. The bundle is all three grade editions of the unit (48 pages total); the Game Pack is one 25-page file with the founder deck, board game, puzzles, and answer key. Print what you need, as many times as your family needs.
In most schools, real civics doesn’t arrive until high school — years after kids start asking how the country works. Cornerstone starts at grades 3–5, when the questions are loudest and the curiosity is free.
Play it. Our printable civics games turn the mechanics of government into things kids ask to do again: a founder card deck, a tape-together board game where a bill fights its way into law, civics bingo, puzzles, and a tournament bracket.
Built for grades 3–5 (roughly ages 8–11). Every unit includes all three editions, so you don’t have to guess — start where your kid is comfortable and move up when they’re ready. Many families run two editions at once.
Yes — that’s the whole design. We teach how the machine works, not what to think: the documents, the branches, the process. No religious content, no political slant, used by faith-based and secular families alike. If you find one line of politics-pushing in these units, we’ll refund you.
Yes — every page is designed to print right in B&W or color on ordinary letter paper, without eating your ink.
Ours starts free: “Who Makes the Rules?” is a complete three-page civics lesson — in all three grade editions — free. It’s how most families meet us.
Email us within 30 days and we’ll refund you through Gumroad — and you keep the files. Try the free lesson first; it’s the honest preview.
Free civics worksheets that actually teach: one complete 3-page lesson in all three grade editions — from house rules all the way up to the Constitution. See how Cornerstone works before you spend a dollar.
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