Curriculum

Lynden School District follows a structured guided process for selecting instructional materials, as outlined in District Policy 2020 Course Design, Selection and Adoption of Instructional Materials.

Each adoption begins with the formation of a professional committee made up of content-area educators. This team reviews the Washington State learning standards along with the latest educational research to develop a thoughtful scope and sequence for student learning.
Promising instructional materials are often field tested in classrooms, allowing teachers to evaluate how well they support student engagement and understanding. After careful consideration, the committee identifies its top choice of materials and presents a formal recommendation to the Instructional Materials Committee (IMC) for review and recommendation.

Lynden School District is committed to ensuring that all course design and core instructional materials are evaluated, adopted and developed with a plan for curriculum growth.

All adopted instructional materials must meet the expectations set by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). These materials are guided by Washington State’s Learning Standards, which outline what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. As required by RCW 28A.655.070, OSPI develops, adopts, and periodically updates these standards to reflect evolving educational goals and student needs.

The Instructional Materials Committee (IMC) plays a vital role and is the only committee to recommend curriculum materials to the School Board for adoption. The IMC consists of both internal and external stakeholders and carefully reviews proposed core instructional resources to ensure they align with the state and federal laws, meet the goals and learning objectives, and follow the procedures outlined by the committee.

At Lynden School District, we believe that a truly effective curriculum is more than just a collection of lessons, it’s a powerful foundation for meaningful learning. High-quality instructional materials, when aligned with Washington State Learning Standards and informed by current research, empower our outstanding teachers to deliver engaging, differentiated instruction with confidence.

We are committed to providing a viable, well-structured curriculum so that teachers don’t need to spend time searching for supplemental resources or patching gaps. Instead, they can focus on what they do best: inspiring students and responding to their diverse learning needs.

Of course, curriculum is just one part of student success. It also depends on excellent teaching, strong school partnerships with caregivers and trusted adults, and a wide network of student support. Every curriculum adoption in our district reflects our shared commitment to high-quality teaching and a thriving learning environment for all.

©2018This program is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.

Washington state formally adopted the Mathematics K-12 Learning Standards, which are based on the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. These standards include content standards for each grade level as well as the Standards for Mathematical Practice which describe essential mathematical habits of mind and action that should pervade mathematics curriculum and pedagogy.

OSPI: Mathematics K-12 Learning Standards
Common Core State Standards Website – Mathematics
Common Core Mathematics Standards Viewer – Dependency Flow
CCSS math progression documents

Teachers and students have online access to grade level units aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) through ThinkLink via Clever.

is aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Online. View lesson breakdowns here.

Amplify CKLA Science Integration into ELA lesson. © 2022, adopted May 2022.

Standards
The Washington State K-12 Science Learning Standards (WSSLS) are the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). These standards describe what students should know and be able to do at each grade level.
Next Generation Science Standards

TK (Launch), K-5

(Core Knowledge Language Arts) curriculum and instruction. Lynden School District board approved as core curriculum on, May 12, 2022. © 2022, 2nd Edition. Students build subject-area knowledge in history, science literature, and the arts by learning to read and write using high quality instructional materials built on the Science of Reading.

For more information, including resources and tools to help your student, please visit Amplify’s Caregiver hub via Clever.

Check out the following FAQ sheet. This curriculum is based on the Science of Reading Language Comprehension and Word Recognition- The Reading Rope.

Creative Curriculum for Launch/TK by Teaching Strategies © 2020. Lynden School District Board approved, May 2022.

TK (Launch), K-2

Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum published by Literacy Resources. Approved as supplemental for reading. Phonemic Awareness is not Phonics. Phonemic awareness is the ability to understand that spoken words are made up of individual sounds called phonemes.

Standards
Washington formally adopted the Washington State K-12 Learning Standards (Common Core State Standards) for English language arts.
View Common Core State Standards

Lynden School District utilizes Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA) curriculum and instruction to teach social studies in grades K-5. Students build subject-area knowledge in social studies by learning to read and write using high-quality instructional materials built on the science of reading.
CKLA exposes students to social studies.

SCHOLASTIC My Big World and SCHOLASTIC Let’s Find Out

Famous Americans + Pioneer units – teacher created


Washington, Our Home, 2nd Edition, Gibbs Smith, (2018 edition) – 4th grade
Core Skills: Social Studies, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2014 edition) – 5th grade

Health Curriculum Information Page + 5th Grade Parent/Guardian Opt-Out Forms

HIV/AIDS Instruction begins in the 5th grade.
Resource:
HIV Presentation
HIV and Me: Marissa’s Story Video

5th Grade Boys
Resource:
Boys Always Changing and Growing
Boys Human Growth and Development Presentation

5th Grade Girls

Resource:
Girls Always Changing and Growing
Girls Human Growth and Development Presentation

Consent is required instruction to meet the requirements of the affirmative consent and bystander training of SB 5395.
Resource:
Consent Clip

GAMEPLAN Curriculum by West Music. K-5. Kindergarten and grade 1: First Steps. Grade 2/First Steps + Kids Sounds by GAMEPLAN. Grades 3-5 Kid Sounds by GAMEPLAN.

Learning.com | Preparing K-12 Students with Future-Ready Digital Skills EasyTech is a self-paced suite of digital literacy. Easy to follow lessons engage students in critical digital skills including digital literacy, computer coding, keyboarding, online safety, and more.

BIG IDEAS MATH MODELING REAL LIFE, Common Core. National Geographic Learning, Cengage, © 2022

Grades 6-8, Discovery Education Experience, Discovery Education Experience, Discovery STEM


Grade 7, Populations and Ecosystems/NGSS
Grade 8, Planetary Science/NGSS, Ecosystems/NGSS
Grade 8, WAVES/NGSS
Accessed via Thinklink/Canvas



OpenSciEd, Unit 6.6 Cells and Systems, OpenSciEd, Unit 6.4 Plate Tectonics & Rock Cycling. Lynden School District Board approved, October 2022. Grade 8.


Students learn about science while they’re building literacy, with engaging and accessible texts and background knowledge-building videos that inspire each student to see the science in their world.

Standards

The Washington State K-12 Science Learning Standards (WSSLS) are the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). These standards describe what students should know and be able to do at each grade level.
Next Generation Science Standards

Lynden School District board adopted, 2019.

myPerspectives is a powerful English language arts curriculum for Grades 6–12 that values the perspective of the learner, collectively and individually, and provides next-gen learning experiences that promote higher achievement and develop the competencies needed for college and career readiness. Interactive learning blends print and technology in a student-centered, teacher-inspired classroom. This dynamic Savvas program creates an interactive, engaging, and relevant learning environment through readings, meaningful activities, and purposeful performance tasks. myPerspectives encourages social collaboration as well as student ownership of learning through goal setting, choice, and reflection.

2025-26 school year, Lynden Middle School and Lynden High school will transition to the newest 2025 copyright edition of myPerspectives ELA to ensure our students and educators have access to the most current resources.

Social Studies and The Washington Middle School Social Studies Collection

6th Grade: World History. The Ancient World + Geography, 2001
7th Grade: Washington History and STI + Tribal sovereignty curriculum
The Washington Journey, 2nd Edition Gibbs Smith Education, copyright 2018. Lynden School District board approved 2019.


Khan Academy

8th Grade: US History – Civil War. The American Republic to 1877, Glencoe

Grade 6 Lynden Middle School – Health Curriculum
Grade 7 Lynden Middle School – Health Curriculum
Grade 8 Lynden Middle School – Health Curriculum

Musicfirst Curriculum
Music: Music First/Classroom, Music First/Practice First, Music First Sight Reading Factory, Music First Soundtrap

Glencoe Algebra 1 © 2014
Glencoe Algebra 2 © 2014
Glencoe Geometry © 2014
Glencoe Precalculus © 2014
Finney Calculus Fourth Edition (AP Edition) 2012
Mathematics: Modeling Our World (MMOW), textbook by COMAP, Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications. Grades 11, 12.
Bridge to College Math, Instructional software, grades 11, 12.

Lynden School District board adopted, 2019.

myPerspectives is a powerful English language arts curriculum for Grades 6–12 that values the perspective of the learner, collectively and individually, and provides next-gen learning experiences that promote higher achievement and develop the competencies needed for college and career readiness. Interactive learning blends print and technology in a student-centered, teacher-inspired classroom. This dynamic Savvas program creates an interactive, engaging, and relevant learning environment through readings, meaningful activities, and purposeful performance tasks. myPerspectives encourages social collaboration as well as student ownership of learning through goal setting, choice, and reflection.

2025-26 school year, Lynden Middle School and Lynden High school will transition to the newest 2025 copyright edition of myPerspectives ELA to ensure our students and educators have access to the most current resources.



The Language of Composition, Third Edition. Reading | Writing | Rhetoric by Shea, Scanlon, Aufses, Pankiewicz. bfw high school publishers. ISBN 978-1-319-05614-8. copyright 2018.

Grade 9. Physical Science. Inspire Physical Science with Earth Science, Published by McGraw Hill-Education. ISBN: 978-0-07-694221-3 Copyright © 2021.

Grade 9. AP Environmental Science. Environment the Science Behind the Stories, 7th Edition, AP Edition. Jay H. Withgott, Matthew Laposata. Published by Pearson (July 14, 2020) Copyright © 2021.



Chemistry Content Manager | CK-12 Foundation (ck12info.org)
Chemistry: Atoms First 2e – OpenStax

Grade 10. Biology. Miller and Levine Biology. Published by Savvas Learning Company. ISBN-13: 978-0-328-92513-1. Copyright © 2019.


CK12-Foundation Biology
Biology-CIHS-BSCS Biology: A Human Approach Textbook, 4th edition
Agriculture: CASE curriculum + soils

Grade 11. Chemistry and Conceptual Chemistry. Experience Chemistry. Published by Savvas Learning Company. ISBN-13: 978-1-4183-2720-0. Copyright © 2021.


Grade 11. Conceptual Chemistry. Inspire Physical Science with Earth Science. Published by McGraw Hill-Education. ISBN 978-0-07-694221-3. Copyright © 2021.


Grade 12. Physics. Experience Physics. Published by Savvas Learning Company. ISBN-13: 978-1-4183-3397-3. Copyright © 2022.


Arduino online. Robotics, Physics
Vexcode. Robotics. Online.
Espruino Web, Computer Science programming

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UW Bio 100 (Neuroscience): Canvas course directly from UW
Anatomy: Hole’s Essentials

The Washington State K-12 Science Learning Standards (WSSLS) are the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). These standards describe what students should know and be able to do at each grade level.
Next Generation Science Standards

Grade 9 AP Human Geography

Human Geography for the AP Course ©, 2021. Lynden School District board approved, June 2022.

Grade 9 Geography Alive! Regions and People. ©, 2024. Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI).
Lynden School District board approved, June 12, 2025.



Grade 10 World Civilizations
History Alive! World Connections. ©, 2020. Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI).
Lynden School District board approved, June 12, 2025.


Grade 11 US History
History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals. © 2020. Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI).
Lynden School District board approved, June 12, 2025.


American History: Connecting With The Past 97800766211422 © 2012
United States History: Reconstruction to the Present 013318918X © 2013

Grade 12 Government (including Civics) and Contemporary World Problems (CWP)
Government Alive! Power, Politics and You! © 2020. Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI).
Lynden School District board approved, June 12, 2025.


Government in America 013399175C © 2016
Civics: Government and Economics in Action 0131335499 © 2007

Mixed Grade Level Courses, and/or Electives
World Religions: A Voyage of Discovery 9781599823294 © 2015
Psychology and You 0314140905 © 2000
Street Law: A Course in Practical Law 0314140778 © 1999
The Washington Story: A History of our State 0931754208 @ 1993

Descubre © 2017, Vista Higher Learning. Level 1, Level 2, Level 3. Lynden School Board approved, June 2021. Spanish, Grades 9-12. Online VHL Central.
Daccord © 2019, Vista Higher Learning. Level 1, Level 2, French. Online VHL Central.

Musicfirst Curriculum
Music: Music First/Classroom, Music First/Practice First, Music First: First Sight Reading Factory, Music First/Soundtrap

Lynden High School Health Curriculum General Overview
Grades 9 & 10- Healthy Relationships and Sexual Health Education