Murrayshire Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 How are you using this and what are you using with them? How many of the books do you use in one school year? I'm interested in Physical/Chemistry and a little Biology if we get to it. Is there plenty of that in these books? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cschnee Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 It took us 2 years to do each of the first two bks, but we added a lot to the reading + Quest Guide. We've used the Quest guides like scrap books, taping in everything that we did that was related. In the Quest Guide there are cartoons, quotes, who, what, where and when vocab and famous people with speech bubbles just waiting for you to give them thoughts. Here is a rundown on the chapters. We also added docs when we could find applicable ones. Vol 1 Aristotle leads the way chap 1 and 2 myths vs science chap 3 calendars, graphing high tides chap 4 and 5 Ionians and other ancient Greeks (we started GEMS Earth, Moon and Stars at this point) chap 6 and 7 more early Greeks chap 8 same, a look at pi chap 9 pythagorean theorum chap 10 Democritus, atoms chap 11 and 12 Plato and Aristotle, cosmologies, retrograde motion chap 13 Aristarchus vs Aristotle, cosmologies chap 14 Athens and Alexandria chap 15 Hero/simple machines (we started AIMS Machine shop here), Brainpop chap 16 Euclid, axioms, Eratosthenes sieve chap 17 Archimedes, more Brainpop, density and buoyancy chap 18 angles chap 19 Rome vs Classical Greece chap 20, 21 Latitude and Longitude chap 22 Augustine chap 23, 24 Middle Ages chap 25, absolute zero, fibonacci numbers chap 26 The Causes, form and matter, philosophy chap 27 time line of printing chap 28Magellan Vol 2 Newton at the Centre chap 1, 2 Renaissance ( we started Interact Renaissance at this time), Leonardo, chap 3 Aristotle, Copernicus chap 4 Tycho Brahe, parallax chap 11 Kepler chap 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10Galileo, pendulum, water clock, gravity exp, mass and speed exp, motion, Jupiter ( we started GEMS Moons of Jupiter ), moon craters, heresey chap 12 Rene Descartes, brainpop chap 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 Newton, mass, weight, G, exp, calculus, light, laws of motion (we did Stop Faking it Forces, Stop Faking it Light) chap 18 Roemer, light chap 19 alchemy, acids, bases, brainpop, adaptive curiculum exp chap 20 air, Robert Boyle, Boyle's law, cartisian diver, brainpop, adaptive curriculum resources chap 21 Bernouilli, adap curr, brainpop chap 23 heat and temperature, states of matter, brainpop and adap curr chap 22 emilie de chatelet, square roots, brainpop chap 24 cavendish, density and volume chap 25, 26 Lavoisier, conservation of mass, adap curric, brainpop, metric chap 27 Dalton, atoms, brainpop chap 28 Avogadro, brainpop, neosci atom kit chap 29 Mendeleyev, periodic table chap 30 thermodynamics, adap curr chap 31 + several science sessions included in the guide electricity, exp, electromagnets chap 32 Faraday, magnetism chap 33 energy brainpop, EM spectrum, chap 34-40 heat and temp, inside the atom, work, energy, thermodynamics Hope this helps. I could probably figure put what docs we watched if anyone is interested... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 What level are they aimed at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrayshire Posted May 27, 2013 Author Share Posted May 27, 2013 Thank you cschnee for that list! Do you have to read these books in order? Also, could these books work as a read aloud? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cschnee Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 Yes you have to read the books in order and yes you can read them as a read aloud; that's what we did. We started them in grade 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbmamaz Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 The books are in historical order, each chapter primarily about a specific mathematician/scientist. The cover math, astronomy and physics, and a little chemistry, with book 3 being about particle/modern physics. I think the first book could be almost any age, starting at late elementary, but they do get more complex. Very few kids younger than high school could really understand the third book, imo. There is no biology in them. She has written some biology books, but has not yet found a publisher. I used them for 9th grade with my older son, and we just read them (separately) and talked a little bit about them. I'm pretty laid back (to say the least). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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