Apologia
High School Science Texts-Science curriculum to use in the home and be easily understood
"We offer high school science curriculum that is especially designed for the home school. Written by a former university professor, it is readable, easy to understand, and has experiments which can be performed at home. The curriculum is backed by a question/answer support system and we allow you to try it before you buy it!"
"We offer high school science curriculum that is especially designed for the home school. Written by a former university professor, it is readable, easy to understand, and has experiments which can be performed at home. The curriculum is backed by a question/answer support system and we allow you to try it before you buy it!"
2 Comments:
Apologia definitely has positives and negatives. The elementary books are great and I would recommend them to anyone. We have used the General Science book for seventh grade and it has left my child in tears at times. The reading is straight forward and the projects are great for truly learning what is being taught. The problem is with the end of the module questions. We can't find the answers in the the reading. This is definitely a curriculum for those that want to be true scientist. It requires a lot of higher thinking and reasoning which is good, but can be daunting for a child who does not enjoy the subject of science. The tests are the same way as well. I have spent many nights making out my own tests due to the fact that their tests are too difficult. My child has dyslexia, so I chose this curriculum because I could get the book on CD. This was a plus for her because she could listen and follow along in the reading of the chapters. Still, the end of the module questions are way too frustrating for us to use this curriculum again.
I've only used the Elementary-level books (Botany and Swimming Creatures Fifth Day). I would recommend them perhaps for 1st thru 4th grade. My dd is around 6th grade and the curriculum wasn't challenging enough. Lots of reading and taking notes. Fine if you're into lots of reading without much hands on. The "experiments" were pretty lame. Most didn't work out and really served very little purpose. To me, the student should learn something from them, which we never did. After a while we just stopped doing them because they were busy work more than anything else IMHO. (Frankly, many of the hands-on projs for elementary science programs out there are pretty lame. Try TOPs Science if you want decent experiments.)
So why did we use it if I didn't really care that much for it? My daughter likes studying one subj in Science the entire year. I designed an Astronomy course for her the year before and she loved it--we have an observatory near by and I studied it in College. But there aren't many elementary-level "one-subj" courses out there that are good IMHO. Kinda all we could find/get. :(
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