Curriculum


Elementary, Grades TK (Launch), K-5

  • ©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

  • 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.


Middle School, Grades 6-8

  • 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.


  • 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


High School, Grades 9-12


  • 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


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