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Apologia Science!!
May. 15, 2009 • 9:06 PM
Are you looking for a wonderful Christ-centered Science curriculum? If you haven’t already tried Apologia, you may want to give it a try! My review is following but (as you’ll read) I truly think this is one of the BEST Science curriculums on the market right now!
“Apologia provides fun and challenging K-12 creation-based science curriculum specifically designed for the home school.” This Science curriculum is such a breath of fresh air to me as a Christian homeschooling mother that isn’t too “into” Science. I do however LOVE the world that God has created and I am thankful to have found a curriculum that teaches from this same perspective. Apologia products are written by a former university professor and homeschool parent. Each book provides college-preparatory science in a way that is both clear and challenging. The texts are readable, easy to understand. When I started reading, I was really impressed at how it really drew us in and kept our attention. The curriculum also has many engaging experiments that can be performed at home with simple materials. I like too that there are photo, graphs, and drawings included all throughout the books.
Apologia publishes a full-range of science texts for the Christian homeschool. They began with high school science texts which have been very popular with homeschoolers for many years. More recently, Apologia began publishing elementary texts. Currently, the elementary science series includes five titles: Astronomy, Botany, Flying Creatures, Swimming Creatures, and Land Creatures.
In each unit, they have included notebook assignments, experiments and other projects. In the experiments, the scientific method is emphasized including discussions of variables, controls, hypotheses, data collection, and drawing conclusions.
Here is a free sample! It is Module one from Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day! The lesson of called “What is Zoology?” Read it and see how interesting this curriculum is!
Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day
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What is Zoology?
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What Makes a Bird a Bird?
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Birds of a Feather
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Flying Factuals
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Nesting
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Matching and Hatching
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Bats
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Flying Reptiles
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A First Look at Insects
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Insect Life Cycles and Life Styles
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Social Insects
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Beetles, Flies, and True Bugs
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Interesting Insects
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Order Lepidoptera
In this Zoology book you will examine the dynamics of flight and animal classifications. You will learn how to attract birds to your yard and how to identify them. You will also learn bird anatomy and God’s glorious design that enables birds to do remarkable things. After becoming amateur ornithologists, you will explore the world of chiropterology, which is the study of bats. This book is for K-6th grades and costs $35.
We also received Teaching Creation with General Science:
The General Science book covers topics such as the scientific method, designing experiments, simple machines, geology, human anatomy and so much more. This book is for 7th grade and up and costs $85 which includes the student textbook and the solutions and test manual. (You can purchase them separately).
Here is a sample from this book, too!! It is Module one entitled A Brief History of Science!
Apologia also has a FREE help line to answer any questions or problems you may encounter. Their toll-free office number is 1-888.524.4724. They also have a money-back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied. I know I am completely satisfied with this wonderful curriculum. I am truly looking forward to doing all of Teaching Creation with General Science next year! We plan to do a human body lapbook with it! (Can’t wait! Can’t wait!) I will probably always use Apologia now for our Science!
Check out more reviews for Apologia products at the TOS Homeschool Crew page!
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May. 21, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by H0MEFree
AMEN!!!
All our experiences with Apologia have been very positive!
We have seen Jay Wile speak at our conference and he was really good and clear. Good stuff!
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Jul. 23, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Falling4Him
I truly believe once you start using Apologia you never turn back. There stuff is great. In fact my 14 year old, calls Dr. Wile her teacher, he truly writes these books as if you where truly taking a class from him. She is always quoting something from her science books and saying "my science teachers says". How funny but so true!
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