As home school conference time and the buying season for the next "school year" near, we will visit with several homeschool science businesses to help you explore new options for next year.
Bridget Ardoin is our guest for the next two weeks. She is the creator of Bridget Ardoin's Science for High School and will be addressing several of the most popular questions she receives about teaching high school science in your homeschool.
What order of high school sciences is best for the high schooler?
Traditionally, Physical Science is taken in the 9th grade and Biology in the 10th. However, Biology and Physical Science are really interchangeable.
I do recommend Physical Science for the 9th grader because it introduces the scientific method as well as all the physical sciences at a high school level. Biology is good for the 10th grader, who is more able to deal with the demands and challenge of more scientific concepts.
Chemistry is best left until 11th grade because of the math and abstract concepts involved. The high school student’s ability for these concepts may not have developed sufficiently until 11th grade. (Of course, as always, there are exceptions).
Physics is usually taken in the last year of high school due to the advanced concepts in the material.
If the high school student is ‘scientifically inclined’, I highly recommend having the student take Chemistry and Physics. Having taken Chemistry in high school enabled me to understand all the different chemistry classes that I had to take in college. Regretfully, I did not take physics in high school. I believe that if I had been exposed to high school physics, my college physics classes would have given me the background knowledge to do well. I am sure they would have been less confusing!
Please join us next week as Bridget discusses dissections and provides some terrific resources!
For more information about teaching high school sciences, visit http://www.scienceforhighschool.com
The biology, chemistry and physical science curriculums that Bridget Ardoin has been teaching for years are now available for purchase on her website at
http://www.scienceforhighschool.com . She even has materials such as dissection kits, specimens and more!
Read a product reivew of Bridget's curriculum in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine...
click here.
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