SAT 10 scope and sequence?

[Julpost]

My dc have been taking the SAT 10 at a local school for the past few years and have always done well. However, my 12yo and 10yo were complaining this afternoon that they feel like they barely scrape by in the social studies and science sections because we study different things each year than what the test covers. I thought this year I could try to cover the same subjects that the SAT 10 covers however I can't seem to find a scope and sequence of any type that would give me a hint of what is on the grade 5 and grade 7 tests. I guess it is teaching to the test in a sense but I see no problem w/covering the same subjects that I know they'll be tested on at the end of the year.

 

How do I find this information? I thought the tests were aligned w/national standards but I'm finding it very stressful trying to wade through all of this information. My hope is that someone knows the answer to this question and will save me hours of sifting and trying to figure this all out.

 

I sure hope this made sense. My head is sort of all muddled up right now. I should've come here first rather diving right in and trying to figure it out all by myself.

 

HELP!

[lejardin]

Based on this http://jc-schools.net/test/Stanford10/Stanford10_GeneralOverview_Handouts%209%2010%2008.pdf you would refer to this http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4962&page=106

Does that give you the info you wanted? If not, I'm out LOL