Curriculum

©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

The Washington Adventure, Gibbs Smith, (2003 edition) – 4th grade
Core Skills: Social Studies, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2014 edition) – 5th grade

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.

Big Ideas Math: A Common Core Curriculum, National Geographic Learning, Cengage, © 2014

6th Grade

7th Grade

8th Grade

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.

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

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.

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.

Chemistry Content Manager | CK-12 Foundation (ck12info.org)
Chemistry: Atoms First 2e – OpenStax
CK12-Foundation Biology
Biology-CIHS-BSCS Biology: A Human Approach Textbook, 4th edition
Agriculture: CASE curriculum + soils

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

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 World Geography or AP Human Geography

Human Geography for the AP Course ©, 2021. Lynden School District board approved, June 2022.
World Geography Today 0030380367 © 2000

Grade 10 World Civilizations
World Civilizations: The Global Experience 0131360205 © 2011
World History Modern Times 9780078910036 © 2010

Grade 11 US History
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 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