Our family is surrounded by science all day, every day.  And yet, we wonder what to "use" to learn science!  How peculiar.  The "experts" and their curriculum lists just don't appeal to us.  So, we're sort of piecing science together as God leads.

It's really nice to have Him in the lead anyway.  That way, I don't have to worry.  I just keep praying and things keep popping up as we're ready to study them.  I'm hoping to keep track of all we use to make a resource list for others who are turned off by the standard fare.

I saw an excellent biology lab option on a homeschooling store's website recently.  My best friend is moving and sends me info. on the awesome stuff her family will have access to in their new surroundings.  So, poking around, I found a "lab" that is just a one shot option... In other words, you don't have to be using Apologia science to be part of the lab.  You also don't have to do every lab!  Is that the answer, or what!?!  If you're ready to learn about the sheep's eye, you pay your lab fee for that dissection and enjoy learning about it.  If you want to do every lab, you pay for every lab and enjoy a year's worth of labs.

That's my kind of science lab co-op!  Translating it to our family or a group of families, we can be studying Passover, sheep, and dissect a sheep's eye.  Or, we can be studying entomology or gardening and dissect a worm.  It doesn't have to be while we're doing someone else's course assignments.  This way, we learn it within the context of the bigger picture.  It's not a science class, it's an ongoing Creation Appreciation class.  I like the whole idea of studying highschool level science better this way.  It's not chopped up into seperate topics.  It's brought together and functions as a whole body of information instead of a specialized, technical, fragmented, boring test oriented, credit driven situation.

Science in peace!