Curriculum
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
Core subjects at EAS include Language Arts, Social Studies, Science/STEM, Math, Spanish, Art, Fitness and Health. Technology is taught and used across all subject areas.
Subject material taught in Language Arts, Social Studies, Science/STEM, and Art are integrated around common themes. The blocks of time dedicated to these classes are referred to as Integrated Studies blocks. Students are divided into four multi-grade groups that rotate through Integrated Studies classes. Integrated studies themes spiral over three years.
Integrated Studies
Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, STEM, and Art
Standards outlined in the LWSD Curriculum Framework for Level 3 (6th through 8th grades) are met in a three-year cycling of connected themes as outlined below.
Year A - Where Have the Salmon Gone? |
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Language
Arts/Social Studies
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Science
/
STEM
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Trimester 1
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The Pacific Northwest
and World Geography
Washington State
Regions
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Salmon (life cycle,
habitat, related issues)
;
Geology;
structures/models/building component
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Trimester 2
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Washington State
Culture and History
CBA: Investigating Environmental
Issues in WA State
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Ecology &
Ecosystems, Population Biology
;
Earthquakes/
volcanoes
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Trimester 3
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Washington State
Government
Sockeye Salmon
Story
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Natural resources &
Environmental issues
;
Green sustainable
design
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Year B - Becoming “U.S.” |
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Trimester 1
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Personal
Development
U.S. Colonization
1550-1650
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Life Processes, Nervous
& Endocrine systems
;
Digestive
system
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Trimester 2
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Pre-Revolution;
Causes of Conflict CBA
U.S. Colonization
1650-1750
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Cells &
Genetics
;
Human development;
Muscle, circulatory system
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Trimester 3
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The American
Revolution
Geographic
characteristics of U.S. Regions
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Classification; 6
kingdoms
;
Virus
Science
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Year C – Boundaries and Horizons |
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Trimester 1
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U.S. Constitution
CBA
Lewis and
Clark
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Science Processes,
Properties of Matter
;
Astronomy &
solar power
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Trimester 2
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Civil War through
Reconstruction
Westward Expansion:
Liberty and Justice for All?
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Force and Motion
;
Weather
Forecasting/hot air balloons
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Trimester 3
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1920’s to the
Present
U.S.
Immigration
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Forms of Energy (w/
emphasis on Light)
;
Climate regions;
CO2 dragsters
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