​English Language ArtsCommon Core State Standards (CCSS)MathematicsCommon Core State Standards (CCSS)Natural SciencesNext Generation Science Standards (NGSS)Visual and Performing ArtsNational Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS)Health and Physical EducationSHAPE AmericaSocial StudiesAmerican Education Reaches Out (AERO)World LanguagesAmerican Education Reaches Out (AERO)Information and Communication TechnologyComputer Science Teacher’s Association (CSTA) & International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)CIA FIRST has adopted academic standards from the USA to ensure that all important areas of a subject are covered by instructional units, and that the level of complexity of knowledge and skills in each course is grade-level appropriate. The academic standards act as a guide, and are ‘unpacked’ into understandings, knowledge, skills and transfer using the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework for curriculum planning.