Seattle Public Schools

Instructional Materials

Middle School Instructional Materials Adoptions

Middle School Instructional Materials Adoptions

English/Language Arts

  • Inquiry by Design Middle School Courses of Study, 2021. (2024 adoption)

Science

  • Amplify Science (2019 adoption)

Math

  • enVision Mathematics 2021 Common Core, Savvas Learning Company (2018 adoption)

Social Studies

  • Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty (2019 adoption)
  • Grade 6: Spielvogel, Jackson, Discovering our Past: A History of the World, Early Ages, McGraw-Hill, 2014. (2015 adoption)
  • Grade 6: Burstein, Stanley Mayer, World History: Ancient Civilizations Through the Renaissance, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. (2015 adoption)
  • Grade 7: Lambert, Dale A. Washington, A State of Contrasts, 2nd ed., Directed Media, 2008 (2010 adoption)
  • Grade 8: Deverell, William, United States History: Beginnings to 1914, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. (2015 adoption)

Art

  • Glencoe, Introducing Art, Exploring Art, and Understanding Art, 1999.
  • Barrett Kendall Publishing, Portfolios: State of the Art, 2000. (Grades 6-8 for K-8 schools)

Family Life and Consumer Sciences

  • Barry, Bill and Susan Wright, The Real Game, NOICC (National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee), Robinson-Blackmore Printing and Publishing, 1996. (Grades 6-8)
  • Clayton, Nonalee, Young Living, 7th edition, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Publishing, 1997. (Grades 6-7)
  • Thompson and Sax, Exploring Life Skills, Paradigm, 1998. (Grade 8)
  • Kowtauk, Helen, Discovering Food and Nutrition. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1997. (Grades 6-8)

Health Education

  • Comprehensive Health for the Middle Grades, ETR Associates, Santa Cruz, CA. 1996. (one set for each middle school library)
    Project Alert , Substance Abuse Prevention, The BEST Foundation.

Music

  • Culp & Others, World of Music, Book 6, 1991. (Grade 6)

Physical Education

  • Five for life, Focused Fitness (grades 6-8, adoption year 2008)

Technology and Trades

  • Walker, John, Exploring Metalworking, Goodheart Wilcox, 1995.
  • Harms and Swernofsky, Technology Interactions, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1999.

World Languages

  • Chinese
    Wang, Gwen, Chinese Step-by-Step, Vol I and II, Scott Foresman, 1986.
  • French
    Schmidt, Conrad J., Bon Voyage, 1, 2, 3. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2008.
  • German
    Winkler, George, Komm Mit! Levels 1, 2, and 3, Holt Rinehart Winston, 2000.
  • Japanese
    Adventures in Japanese, volumes 1-4, Cheng & Tsui, c2007.
    Further Adventures in Japanese, volume 1, Cheng & Tsui, c2007.
  • Russian
    Kostomarov, B., Russian for Everybody, Russky Yazyk, Moscow, 1989.
  • Spanish
    Blanco, Jose A., Senderos 1, 2, Vista Higher Learning, 2018-19 (adoption year 2019)

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