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Because of supplies here in Bazil it is not always possible to do all the suggested experiments in our Apologia Science book.  A while ago Rebekah did the experiment about "natural selection".  The deer was the prey and the Cougar was the predator.  This was showing the correlation between the population of the deer and cougars.  It was very interesting to see how the numbers would go up and  down.

Here is Rebekah casting the Cougars among the deer.

(above) The cougar landed upside down and did not  "eat" any of the deer.  Poor thing he died. The cougar needed to land on/eat at least 3 deer to survive.


Here is a better shot of the cougars and deers.  This time there were 4 cougars and only one of them landed on/ "ate" 3 deers.  He survived and the other cougars all died. Each of the deer that were landed on all died (even if the cougar only landed on 1 or 2) .

I wish I had more pictures but at the time I was involved with the process and did not get many more.

Another activity was cutting out the map of the world and seeing how it may have been prior to the plates of the earth separating.


Here is what it may have looked like before the plates separated. The paper moved a little before my picture was taken but South America and Africa fit snuggly together.

We did not take pictures of all the experiments but we had fun getting everything together. And Rebekah did learn something in the process.  Out of the experiments that we were able to find the supplies I think they have all been a success so far.

Happy Homeschooling

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• A daily schedule for those who like to have a plan or would like their children to complete the book on their own
• Templates for written narrations, the notebooking activities and experiments
• Review Questions
• Scripture Copywork, with both print and cursive practice 
• Reading lists and additional activities, projects, experiments for each lesson
• An appendix with beautiful, full-color, lapbook-style Miniature Books
• Field Trip Sheets to keep a record field trips
• A Final Review with fifty questions the students can answer either orally or in writing to show off all they remember and know at the end of the course.

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I am excited about trying the notebooking journals out.  We will be doing Botany this fall!! So the journals are out just in time for us!!

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I was so excited to see Apologia´s Exploring Creation series as the suggested science on AmblesideOnline.  When we last homeschooled this was not the case.

Since it took about 5 weeks for us to get our book it was nice to be able to download the first chapter .   This book has been refreshing since Rebekah is not a science lover. Doing  Abeka for the last 2 years at the American school had really burned her out in the area of science.  I let her choose which book we began with and she chose the Mammals book.

We have just completed the 3rd chapter.   We are working on one chapter a week. Since we started this book late we will probably finish it during the summer. We will post some of the experiments that we do.

Since we are starting school back after 12 days of Spring break and we only have 3 days of school this week we will be just doing experiments and notebooking this week.  I will post some pictures of our experiments.

This has been one of the most enjoyable science books that we have used in 8 1/2 years of homeschooling.