Bellingham
Public Schools
Curriculum
Department
INSTRUCTIONAL
MATERIALS RECOMMENDATIONS
Instructional
Materials
The
Instructional Materials Committee recommends Board adoption of the following
teacher requested texts:
Mathematics
– Statistics at Bellingham, Sehome and Squalicum High Schools
- Stats,
Modeling The World, Bock, Velleman,
DeVeaux/Pearson, Addison Wesley 2004
AP
Micro and Macro Economics at Bellingham High School
- Economics:
Private and Public Choice, 10th Edition ,
Thomson/South-Western 2003
Personal
Finance at Squalicum High School
- Managing
Your Personal Finances , 4th Edition,
Joan S. Ryan, South-Western/Thomson Learning 2002
United
States History – Middle and High School English Language Learners
- United
States History, Fourth Edition,
Globe Fearon, Pearson Learning Group 2004
The
Secondary Science Curriculum Committee recommends district-wide adoption of
the following:
Middle
School Science
- Energy,
Machines and Motion (STC kit for
Grade 6)
- Earth
History (FOSS kit for Grade 6)
- Populations
and Ecosystems (FOSS kit for Grade 6)
- Catastrophic
Events (STC kit for Grade 7)
- Earth
in Space (STC kit or Grade 7)
- Light
(STC kit for Grade 7)
- Properties
of Matter (STC kit for Grade 8)
- Organisms
– From Macro to Micro (STC kit for Grade 8)
- Human
Body (STC kit for Grade 8)
STC
= Science and Technology Concepts for Middle School
FOSS
= Full Option Science System
High
School (Grade 9) Environmental Science (purchasing
classroom sets)
- Environmental
Science, Scott Foresman-Addison
Wesley, 2003
- Biology:
A Community Context, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2003
- EarthComm,
Earth's Fluid Spheres, It's About TIME, 2001
- Active
Physics, Sports, It's About TIME, 2000
- Over
Our Heads, A Local Look at Global Climate, John
C. Ryan/Northwest Environment Watch, Nov. 1997
- State
of the Northwest, Revised 2000 edition, John C.
Ryan/Northwest Environment Watch
Schedule
for Approval
First
Reading:
School
Board Agenda – April 22, 2004
Available
for Public Review in the Curriculum Department:
April
22 through May 13, 2004
Second
Reading – Final Approval:
School
Board Agenda – May 13, 2004