Sprout Lessons now supports Canadian classrooms and homeschools. Three provincial frameworks join the curriculum menu: the Ontario Curriculum, British Columbia’s K–12 curriculum and Alberta’s programs of study. Pick your province, a subject and a grade, and every lesson is grounded in that province’s own learning standards, with the alignment recorded in the lesson footer.
Canada was the most requested addition after the United States, and it could not be done with one dataset, because Canada famously has no national curriculum: education is provincial jurisdiction, and each province writes its own framework with its own structure and vocabulary. (If you want the plain-English tour of how Ontario, BC and Alberta differ, we wrote a companion guide to which curriculum each province uses.) So we built each province properly, on its own terms.
Ontario: the Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–12
The Ontario framework covers nearly 3,700 expectations from the Ministry of Education’s curriculum, spanning elementary Language and English, Mathematics, Science and Technology, Social Studies (and later History and Geography and Canadian and World Studies), Health and Physical Education, and The Arts - through to secondary courses in Grades 9–12. Lesson footers record the expectations the lesson aligned to and link to the Ministry’s digital curriculum site, so a teacher or home educator can verify every reference. One honest note: Ontario’s Kindergarten program is play-based and has no coded expectations, so Kindergarten lessons generate without formal grounding.
British Columbia: the K–12 curriculum
BC’s redesigned curriculum is structured differently - learning standards organised under the Know-Do-Understand model rather than numbered outcome codes - and our BC framework covers about 3,400 of those standards across English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Physical and Health Education, Applied Design, Skills and Technologies, and Arts Education, from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Because BC’s standards carry no official codes, footers identify each alignment by subject, grade and strand and link directly to the matching page on the province’s curriculum site, which is more useful to a BC teacher than an invented number would be.
Alberta: new K–6 curriculum plus 7–12 programs of study
Alberta’s framework is the largest of the three, with more than 4,500 outcomes. It combines the new K–6 curriculum that Alberta has been rolling out since 2022 with the 7–12 programs of study, across English Language Arts and Literature, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Physical Education and Wellness, and Fine Arts. As with BC, Alberta’s outcomes have no official short codes, so footers describe each alignment by subject, grade and strand and link to LearnAlberta for verification.
Canadian lessons that read Canadian
Choosing a Canadian framework changes more than the standards. Lessons use Canadian English and Canadian vocabulary - Grade 5 rather than Year 5, Kindergarten rather than Foundation - and the grade picker runs K–12 as Canadian schools do. Everything else works the way Sprout always has: describe the concept and the student’s interests in a sentence, and get back a full-page interactive lesson or a ten-slide deck with challenges and XP, built around what that student loves, with practice that marks itself, shareable by link. There is no eligibility wall for teachers, tutors or homeschooling families.
What about the other provinces?
Ontario, BC and Alberta cover the large majority of Canadian students, so they came first. If you teach in another province, you can still generate great lessons today - Manitoba and Saskatchewan teachers will find BC or Alberta the closest structural match, and the footer references remain checkable against your own documents. More provinces will follow based on demand.
Canadian support ships alongside US support for Common Core and NGSS, bringing Sprout to seven frameworks across three countries. Try it free - new accounts start with free lessons, and your first curriculum-aligned lesson takes about a minute.
FAQ
Does Sprout Lessons align lessons to the Ontario Curriculum?
Yes. Choose Ontario as your curriculum and Sprout grounds each lesson in the Ontario Curriculum’s expectations, covering Grades 1–12 across Language and English, Mathematics, Science and Technology, Social Studies and related disciplines, Health and Physical Education, and The Arts, including secondary courses. Lesson footers record the expectations the lesson aligned to and link to the Ministry of Education’s digital curriculum site. Ontario’s Kindergarten program has no coded expectations, so Kindergarten lessons generate without formal grounding.
Does Sprout Lessons support the BC curriculum?
Yes. The British Columbia framework covers about 3,400 learning standards from BC’s redesigned K–12 curriculum across English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Physical and Health Education, Applied Design Skills and Technologies, and Arts Education. Because BC’s standards carry no official codes, footers identify each alignment by subject, grade and strand and link to the matching page on the province’s curriculum site.
Does Sprout Lessons support the Alberta curriculum?
Yes. The Alberta framework combines the new K–6 curriculum rolled out since 2022 with the Grades 7–12 programs of study, more than 4,500 outcomes in total, across English Language Arts and Literature, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Physical Education and Wellness, and Fine Arts. Alberta’s outcomes have no official short codes, so footers describe each alignment by subject, grade and strand and link to LearnAlberta.
What about other Canadian provinces?
Ontario, BC and Alberta educate the large majority of Canadian students, so they shipped first. Teachers and homeschoolers elsewhere can still generate lessons today: Manitoba and Saskatchewan users will find Alberta or BC the closest structural match, and footer references remain checkable against local documents. Additional provinces will be added based on demand.