Bellingham Public Schools

Curriculum Department

June 2004

EIGHTH GRADE

Curriculum Resources

Reading and Writing – teach as per literacy guide and curriculum guide

• spelling – Sourcebooks 1 and 4
• handwriting – focus on legibility, uniformity, personality (manuscript or cursive)
• writing process and six trait writing

Math – teach as per curriculum guide using

        Connected Mathematics , Prentice Hall 2004

• Data Around Us
• Accentuate the Negative
• Moving Straight Ahead
• Looking for Pythagoras
• Thinking with Mathematical Models
• Growing, Growing, Growing
• Optional Unit: Kaleidoscopes, Hubcaps and Mirrors
• Additional Teacher Resources: Clever Counting; Frogs, Fleas, and Painted Cubes; Say It with Symbols; Samples and Populations

Science – teach as per curriculum guide using required topics/sequence

        Properties of Matter

• STC Kit – Properties of Matter

        Organisms-From Macro to Micro

• STC Kit – Organisms-From Macro to Micro

Social Studies – teach as per curriculum guide using

        History of Us, Oxford University Press 1999 – purchased one student text per student and received one teaching resource book, one teacher guide and one blackline masters per teacher

• Book 3 – From Colonies to Country (1710-1791)
• Book 4 – The New Nation (1789-1850)
• Book 5 – Liberty For All? (1800-1860)
• Book 6 – War, Terrible War (1860-1865)
• Book 7 – Reconstruction and Reform (1865-1870)
• Book 8 – An Age of Extremes (1870-1917)

• History of Us – Book 11 – Sourcebook and Index, Oxford University Press 1999 – purchased one student text per teacher as a resource
• Economics Today & Tomorrow, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 1995 – purchased one teacher edition per teacher as a teacher resource
• Nystrom Desk Atlas, 1999 – purchased classroom sets
• World Wall Map

Health – teach as per curriculum guide using

• Teen Health Course 3 , Glencoe McGraw-Hill 1999

Other

• Second Step, A Violence Prevention Curriculum
• KNOW HIV/STD Prevention Curriculum