Salish Coast Elementary

Port Townsend School District has aligned the curriculum along a central Maritime Framework to anchor all subjects and grade levels in experiences in the local maritime community. Through this maritime and place-based learning students are connected with land and sea over the course of their careers. The curriculum emphasizes developing student skills and dispositions along our place-based learning themes. Our curriculum is continually being improved and changed, so check back as we keep this page updated. 

Across the Grades

• Swimming Lessons, Grades K-3 
• Bike Safety

Preschool

• Yikes!

Kindergarten

• Earth Day Beach Clean Up
• Place is our Community 
  
  

First and Second Grade

• Town/Community
• Erosion
• Salmon Study

Third Grade

• Emergency Preparedness 
• Marine Science 
• Native American Studies 
• Yikes!

Fourth Grade

• Local Landscape and Ecosystem 
• Graphic Design 
• Human Development and Impact on the Environment 
• Social Dance

Fifth Grade

• 4th and 5th grade Tall Ships Experience
• Ocean Acidification and Water Health and the 5th grade! 
• PT Climate Summit

OPEPO

• US History
• Building the Garden
• Waste Audit 
• Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?