Science

Complementing Exploring Creation with Astronomy, the Astronomy Notebooking Journal will provide everything your students need to complete their studies in astronomy. The Notebooking Journal serves as your child's individual notebook, providing a place for them to complete every assignment, record their experiments and display their work. These Notebooking Journals are a perfect compliment to Exploring Creation with Astronomy. Each student will cherish their individual notebook as they make it their very own with words and illustrations reflecting all they have learned in their pursuit of astronomy. Additionally, it serves as your record of your student's scientific endeavors throughout the year. When your child flips through their notebook, they will be reminded of the knowledge they have attained, reviewing the material as they peruse the pages they have created. From Apologia. Learn More

Complimenting Exploring Creation with Botany, the Botany Notebooking Journal will provide everything your students need to complete their Botany studies. The Notebooking Journal serves as your child's individual notebook, providing a place for them to complete every assignment in the book, including the notebook activities, nature hunts and walks, specimen collections and much, much more. These Notebooking Journals are a perfect compliment to Exploring Creation with Botany. Each student will cherish their individual notebook as they make it their very own with words and illustrations reflecting all they have learned in their pursuit of botany. Additionally, it serves as your record of your student's scientific endeavors throughout the year. When your child flips through their notebook, they will be reminded of the knowledge they have attained, reviewing the material as they peruse the pages they have created. From Apologia. Learn More

Christian Kids Explore Biology is an ideal first course in biology; especially useful for those following a classical approach. This user friendly course provides 35 weekly lessons and calls for teaching twice weekly, allowing a family time for projects, exploration of resource books, field trips, etc. Includes teaching lessons, highly detailed coloring pages, hands-on activities, experiments, materials lists, memorization lists, creative writing assignments, notebooking suggestions, and huge supplemental book list. Winner of the Cathy Duffy 100 Top Picks Award. 300+ pages. Grades 3-6. Learn More

Christian Kids Explore Chemistry. Exploring chemistry can be an exciting adventure. It gives us a glimpse into the wonders of God's creation. Chemistry has unfamiliar words, rules, tools, and procedures that define it. Although chemistry isn't simple, this texts proves that it can be made easy-to-understand. The schedule of 35 weekly lessons calls for teaching twice weekly, allowing families time for projects, exploration of resource books, field trips, etc. This is all you need to teach a strong, basic chemistry course for Junior high and upper elementary students. Paperback. 384 pages. Grades 4-8.

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Christian Kids Explore Earth and Space breaks our universe into manageable bites, offering units about Earth and its structure, the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and weather, as well as a unit investigating the universe and its components. The 24 lessons and six unit reviews present the material in an easy-to-teach manner. Students are encouraged to keep a science notebook as they learn. Hands-on activities include building a model of Earth and its layers, using eggs to understand plate tectonics, and simulating a volcanic eruption. Christian Kids Explore Earth and Space guides your journey as you dive into the wonder of our universe. Grades 4-8. Learn More

The universe that we live in is the result of God’s thoughtful design and careful building. Physics gives us a glimpse into the materials, laws, and structures of that universe. Behold the wonders of creation with this series of 30 easy-to-understand lessons for grades 4-8. Each lesson helps develop an understanding of matter and energy and the rules they follow. Exploring physics is an exciting adventure! Learn More

Educating the Wholehearted Child, erd Edition. B Clay & Sally Clarkson. Paperback. Learn More

This book begins with a lesson on the nature of astronomy, and then it covers the major structures of our solar system. Starting with the sun and working towards Pluto, the student will learn details about all nine planets (or is it eight? - your student will have to decide) in the solar system. Along the way, the student will also learn about Earth’s moon, the asteroid belt, and the Kuiper belt. After that, the student will move outside our solar system and learn about the stars and galaxies that make up God’s incredible universe. Finally, the student will learn about space travel and what it takes to be an astronaut! The activities and projects use easy-to-find household items and truly make the lessons come alive! They include making a solar eclipse, simulating the use of radar to determine a hidden landscape, making a telescope, and making an astrometer to measure the brightness of a star. We recommend that you spend the entire school year covering this book, devoting approximately two sessions per week to the course. From Apologia. Elementary Level. Learn More

This book begins with a lesson on the nature of botany and the process of classifying plants. It then discusses the development of plants from seeds, the reproduction processes in plants, the way plants make their food, and how plants get their water and nutrients and distribute them throughout the body of the plant. As students study these topics, they also learn about many different kinds of plants in creation and where they belong in the plant classification system. The activities and projects use easy-to-find household items and truly make the lessons come alive! They include making a “light hut” in which to grow plants, dissection of a bean seed, growing seeds in plastic bags to watch the germination process, making a leaf skeleton, observing how plants grow towards light, measuring transpiration, forcing bulbs to grow out of season, and forcing pine cones to open and close. We recommend that you spend the entire school year covering this book, devoting approximately two sessions per week to the course. Please note that many of the activities and projects in this book are long-term with results that can take several days to observe. Thus, you will have to be flexible in how you schedule your time. Elementary Level. From Apologia. Learn More

Young Explorer Series: Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology. From head to toe, you and your student will encounter fascinating facts, engaging activities, intriguing experiments, and loads of fun as you learn about the human body and how to keep it working according to God's design. After a brief history of medicine and a peek into cell structure and DNA, students will take a fantastic voyage through each of their main physiological systems, including the skeletal, muscular, respiratory, digestive, circulatory, and nervous systems, and more! They'll study nutrition and health, embryology, major organs, how their immune system is designed to protect them, and what makes each of us a unique creation of God. In addition, your student will enjoy many experiments and projects, such as testing the bacteria contents around the house, finding his or her blood type, creating a cell model from Jell-O and candy, and even building a stethoscope! Grades K-6. Anatomy Notebooking Journal also available. Learn More

Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology Notebooking Journal. The Notebooking Journal serves as your child's individual notebook, providing a place for them to complete every assignment in the book. It includes a weekly schedule, templates for the notebook activities, nature hunts and record keeping, projects, experiments, and much, much more. From Apologia. Elementary level. Learn More

Exploring Creation With Marine Biology. In order to take this course, students must have completed a first-year biology course, preferably "Exploring Creation With Biology." This course concentrates on marine wildlife and marine habitats. It provides a survey of members of each biological kingdom that live in marine environments. The student will learn about the microscopic organisms that make life in the ocean possible, including details about their interesting habits and life cycles. The student will also learn about the anatomy of many marine creatures such as clams, starfish, and sharks, how they form ecosystems such as intertidal zones, estuaries, coral reefs, continental shelf communities, etc. This course contains many experiments, some of which require microscope equipment, while others require dissection equipment. Grade Recommendation: Grade 12. From Apologia. Learn More

Exploring Creation With Marine Biology Companion CD-ROM. This is the multimedia companion to the printed Marine Biology textbook. This is the perfect thing for those who want to use a printed textbook (sold separately, Item #1025) but are interested in the extras that can be found on the CD. The videos and animations are viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer, but does not use the internet. Microsoft Explorer is simply utilized as the user interface because it is easy to operate and is familiar to most students.

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Exploring Creation With Zoology 1, Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day. In this book your children will begin exploring the dynamics of flight and animal classification, understanding why the design we see in these incredible creatures points us to our Creator God. Also covers the exciting adventure of learning about birds, bats, insects, etc. After becoming amateur ornithologists, your children will learn to scientifically classify insects they find in their yard by a simple glance at their wings and other important characteristics. In addition to designing experiments with flies, crickets, darkling moths, and caterpillars, they will also learn how to attract and catch insects for scientific study. Grade Recommendation: K-6th. From Apologia. Learn More

The Zoology 2 Junior Notebooking Journal is one of the newest in the product line of the Young Explorer Series. A companion to Exploring Creation with Zoology 2, this junior journal is much like the regular Zoology 2 Notebooking Journal but is designed for younger students or those with limited writing skills. All the lines in the junior journal are primary writing lines (a dashed line between two solid lines), and there are far fewer than in the regular journal. The Zoology 2 Junior Notebooking Journal is perfect for: ■Younger students that have not yet mastered handwriting ■Older students that are delayed in handwriting mastery ■Older students with learning disabilities ■Students that are new to written narration Each lesson in the junior journal begins with two fun coloring pages for the student to color while he listens to the reading of the text. These pages provide opportunities for active learning while reinforcing the lesson's content. Following are pages with templates designed to encourage creative expression and written narration. The student can illustrate what he's learned and write a sentence or two about the topic. Next, the student is given the opportunity to work with and learn key vocabulary words presented in the text. Included are puzzle piece cut out and match vocabulary activities, partially filled in crosswords, vocabulary stories, animal identification activities and more. These learning activities are not only fun, but they increase the student's retention of both the important terms and the subject matter presented in the lessons. In addition to vocabulary work, the student has the opportunity to practice his handwriting and is given the choice between print copywork, cursive copywork or both. The Scriptures used for copywork are shorter than in the regular notebooking journal, and the font is larger. Templates to complete all the notebooking assignments, project record keeping, Scientific Speculation Sheets and, of course, the same beautiful, full-colored miniature books found in the original notebooking journal are included in the junior journal. There are some higher level activities missing from the junior journal, but they are replaced with cut and paste, high interest learning activities that bring the subject to life. What's missing? ■The lengthy and technical Vocabulary Crosswords ■The What Do You Remember? Written review questions ■The Final Review The Zoology 2 Junior Notebooking Journal is perfect for the beginning writer or the child who is not yet writing well. Every child writes at a different age, so age is not the best factor when determining which notebooking journal to purchase: the regular or the junior journal. The best determining factor is whether or not the child feels comfortable writing paragraphs. If not, the junior journal is a great tool to help the child begin incorporating writing into his learning. From Apologia. Learn More

Apologia’s second zoology book, Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day, will take you and your family on an exploration into the wonders of the swimming creatures made on the fifth day of creation. You’ll begin with a big splash from the whales and dolphins, then spy on seals and meet manatees before swimming with the sea turtles, snakes, and salamanders. You’ll even peek in on the primeval plesiosaurus and its pals. From the microscopic to massive, no stone is left unturned in your student’s passage through the waters of the world. The creatures your student studies will come to life as your student creates replicas of them and adds them to his “Ocean Box” - a miniature hand-crafted aquarium. As always, each lesson ends with an experiment or project reinforcing the scientific method and the concepts studied. Among other experiments and projects, your student will try on blubber, investigate a shark’s ability to sense electrical currents, explore how whales can hear sounds that come from far away, and learn through experimentation which creatures make the best fossils. No matter how near or far you live from the ocean, you and your students will wonder at God’s designs in the amazing aquatic animals He formed on the fifth day. K-6th. From Apologia. Learn More

Exploring Creation with Zoology 3: Land Animals of the Sixth Day. This third book in the zoology series from Apologia takes students on a safari through jungles, deserts, forests, farms, and even their own backyard to explore, examine and enjoy the enchanting creatures God designed to inhabit the terrain. Families will snuggle together and discover the amazing animals from primates to parasites, kangaroos to caimans, and turtles to terrifying T-Rexs - this safari doesn't end there! Students will also keep a record of where each animal is found on a map and learn to identify animal tracks. As with all the Apologia elementary books, students will continue the practice of narration, keeping a notebook of what they have learned, and enjoy many hands on projects and experiments throughout the course. Hardbound. Grades K-6. Learn More

Christian Liberty Nature Reader - Grade K provides students with a well-illustrated animal lesson for each letter of the alphabet. Students who have completed a kindergarten phonics program should be able to read this four-color book with minimal help. It includes a glossary at the back of the book to help young students understand highlighted vocabulary words in the text. Paperback. 60 pages. Learn More

Discover God's amazing world with your homeschool teen with the computer-based Switched-On Schoolhouse Earth Science! This ten-unit elective includes quizzes and tests and comes with multimedia-enriched lessons about Earth's formation, structure, interacting systems, and its place within the universe. Made with video clips and games, this Alpha Omega curriculum for grades 8-12 covers topics like rocks, weather, water cycles, the atmosphere, and the solar system! Minimal System Requirements for Switched-On Schoolhouse 2012 Edition: Windows® XP Service Pack 3; Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 or higher; 1 GHz or higher processor; 512 MB Memory (RAM); 1 GB hard drive space; 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor, 16-bit color; CD-ROM drive; Adobe® Reader®; Printer recommended; Windows Vista® Service Pack 1; Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 or higher; 1 GHz or higher processor; 1 GB memory (RAM) (2GB for 64-bit); 1 GB hard drive space (2GB for 64-bit); 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor, 16-bit color; CD-ROM drive; Adobe® Reader®; Printer recommended; Windows® 7 Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 or higher; 1 GHz or higher processor; 1 GB memory (RAM) (2GB for 64-bit); 1 GB hard drive space (2GB for 64-bit); 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor, 16-bit color; CD-ROM drive; Adobe® Reader®; Printer recommended; Attention XP users: You must have Service Pack 3 installed prior to installing Switched-On Schoolhouse 2012 Edition. Attention Vista users: You must have Service Pack 1 installed prior to installing Switched-On Schoolhouse 2012 Edition. Note: These requirements are minimal. Depending on the configuration of your computer, you may find that you need to run SOS on a computer that exceeds these requirements, giving you more memory and a faster processing speed. Windows® Vista® and Windows® 7 Aero users are strongly recommended to use a computer meeting the requirements for optimal performance. Learn More

The Astronomy Junior Notebooking Journal perfectly correlates with the regular journal but includes activities and pages geared to the younger set, such as primary writing lines, coloring pages, interesting and fun vocabulary activities, and additional projects and experiments. Also included are supplemental and age appropriate DVD and living book suggestions. From Apologia Educational Ministries.

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This is an advanced biology course. Recommended for 10th grade and up. Pre requisites include a first year biology and first year chemistry course. Covers the anatomy and physiology for the human body. Includes hardbound text and softbound solutions and test manual. From Apologia. Learn More

This is the multimedia companion to the printed textbook, The Human Body (Item #5362). This contains all of the multimedia add-ons but excludes the text of the course. This is the perfect thing for those who want to use a printed textbook but are interested in the extras such as videos and animations. (Viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer). This CD does not use the internet. Microsoft Internet Explorer is simply utilized as the user interface because it is easy to operate and is familiar to most students. Learn More

Debra Bell's best-selling manual has been revised and updated for a new generation of home educations. This indispensable resource belongs on the shell of every family taking part in home-based learning. Inside you will find: Six ingredients of a successful homeschool; Subject-bysubject guidelines and program recommendations; Keys to unlocking your child's learning potential; Ten ways to motivate the reluctant learner; Creative solutions for burnout, budgeting, and managing your time. This new edition includes a guide to using the Internet and new technology in your homeschooling. You will also get the latest information on teaching middle school and high school courses, including a list of academic contests and competitions. Tips on multilevel teaching and engaging toddlers and a resource guide with up-to-date contact information round out this amazing tool. Learn More

The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling Teens, by Debra Bell. Paperback. Learn More