The document provides an overview of the Build Your Own Curriculum (BYOC) database used by the Kimberly Area School District to store and provide access to its curriculum. BYOC organizes the curriculum by subject, course, units, and instructional topics. It describes how teachers, parents, and the public can search for and view course curriculum within BYOC, which includes unit descriptions, learning targets, and other instructional resources. The document notes that curriculum work is ongoing and not all courses or descriptions are fully developed yet in BYOC. It provides contact information for questions.

1. KASD Curriculum Portal –
Build Your Own Curriculum
A How-to-Use Guide

2. What is “Build Your Own Curriculum?”
• Build Your Own Curriculum (BYOC) is an
online database used to store and update
the Kimberly Area School District’s
curriculum.
• BYOC provides easy access to the
curriculum of individual courses and
grade-level subjects for teachers, parents
and the public.

3. How is the curriculum organized in
Build Your Own Curriculum?
• Subject areas (math,
science, art, music,
technology education,
etc.) are divided into
courses:
– Everyday Math K
– Science 5
– Intro to Art
– Band 7
– Metals I
• Courses are further
divided into units. The
following units are from
Science 5:
– Scientific Method
– Matter
– Atoms and Elements
– Climate
– Ecosystems
– Earth & Solar System

4. How is the curriculum organized in
Build Your Own Curriculum?
• Units are composed of
instructional topics. The
following topics are from
the Science 5 unit on
Matter:
– Physical Properties
– States of Matter
– Mixtures, Solutions, and
Suspensions
• For each topic, there will
be learning targets. These
identify what students
should know and be able
to do as a result of their
instruction & learning.
Examples from Physical
Properties topic:
– Describe physical properties
of matter.
– Measure physical properties
of matter (mass, volume,
density, and weight).

5. How do I access BYOC?
• Parents or the public
can access BYOC
from KASD’s home
page.
• Look for Curriculum
in the Parent
section.
• From the Curriculum
page, look for the
BYOC link.

6. Finding Courses in BYOC
• You can search for
Courses by
Department, Grade
Level or both in
BYOC.
• Use the Department
and/or Grade Level
menus and then click
Search button at
upper right.

7. Viewing Course Curriculum
• After searching by
Department and/or
Grade Level, you will
get a list of courses
meeting your search
criteria.
• Clicking on the
Course title (Science
5) will take you to
the Course page.

8. Course Page Options
• The Course page
provides a brief
overview of the
course, a list of units,
and instructional
resources used.
• The Print Course
button in upper right
allows you to create a
paper copy (pdf
format) of the course
curriculum.

9. Course Page Options
• The Scope and
Sequence button
produces an
expanded outline
of the course
showing all units
and topics.
• You can click on
any Unit name or
Topic to go directly
to that section of
the curriculum.

10. The Unit Page and Topics
• Clicking on a Unit
name at either the
Course page or from
the Scope and
Sequence outline,
takes you to a Unit
page containing a
brief unit description
and a list of
instructional topics.
• Clicking on any of the
Topics will take you to
the Learning Targets
for that topic.

11. Learning Targets
• Learning Targets are
statements that
indicate what
students should
know and be able to
do as a result of the
instruction and
learning that has
occurred during this
unit.

12. Learning Targets*
• For learning targets
marked with an
asterisk(*), click the >
symbol in front of the
target to access
additional
information about
that learning target.

13. Ongoing Curriculum Work
• Because curriculum work is ongoing in the
Kimberly Area School District, you may notice
that . . .
– Courses are labeled as “Being Revised.”
– Not all courses currently have curriculum
accessible to the public via Build Your Own
Curriculum. We hope to have all of our curricula
available in the near future.
– Course and unit descriptions have not been
developed for all of our courses yet.

14. Curriculum Sequence and Timeframes
• The curriculum information displayed for any
course is an example of the sequence and
timeframes for that course, but the actual
sequence and timeframes may vary from teacher
to teacher based on the actual students in a class
and resource constraints.
• Some units and/or topics have durations marked
as “ongoing.” This means that the content of this
unit or topic is integrated throughout the course
or unit.

15. Questions, Comments, Additional
Information Needed
• Contact
– Ron Simonis
– Curriculum Director
– (920) 788-7900
– rsimonis@kimberly.k12.wi.us