I think I mentioned in an earlier post that we LOVE the Apologia Elementary Science studies.  Since we use the four-year cycle (classical approach) to science and history, this year's science needed to cover plants, animals and human body.  We just finished the Exploring Creation With Botany  book, so I decided to change gears and do my own human body unit before Christmas.  We're about two weeks into it and the kids are loving the "change of pace". 

I'm using the human body section from Considering God's Creation as sort of a spine.  I'll typically read a library book as an intro to the body system we're talking about, then do some of the activities and Bible reading from Considering God's Creation.  I've been supplementing (or even substituting) some of the activities with ideas from a wonderful book called Easy Make and Learn Projects: Human Body from Scholastic.  The hands-on projects are really adding to our learning!

From just those two resources, we are creating a GREAT notebook of our studies.  (When I can figure out how to resize pictures, I'll post some!)  Another couple of resources I'm using just to add a little here and there are The Human Body -Intermediate Level by Teacher Created Materials and some coloring pages for Caleb from the human body section of the Living Learning Books curriculum.

I really enjoy putting together my own units!  With our new little guy due in just about a month, though, I think we'll stick to Apologia's Exploring Creation With Zoology II  for spring studies.  That's after a nice long "get to know our baby" break this winter. 

Coming soon......Our Christmas Unit