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BrettW
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I just finished Elements with my rising 5th and 7th grader. We really liked it and got a lot out of it. I especially appreciated that there were worksheets that went along with the lessons (at least for lessons 1-5) in addition to the activities in the teacher portion. The sheets really helped reinforce the lessons and made it easy to teach.  I'm not sure why the worksheet portion was not included in lessons 6-8. I'd like to continue on with Carbon Chemistry (part II of the Elements, I think) and maybe others of her programs.

 

Can anyone tell me if her other programs (aside from Elements) include the work-pages like she includes in the early lessons of the Elements? As I recall theses were things like puzzles, riddles, crosswords, etc... (I'm not referring to the experiments and skits which are located in the teacher guide portion.)

 

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I just bought Carbon Chemistry and The Elements as download a few months ago.

 

I think it had some worksheets- what I really liked about the Carbon Chemistry- that I can remember while reading through it- was that there were questions at the end that required them to do a bit of internet research.

 

And the questions were really interesting- a few I even was so curious about that I looked them up myself :)

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We haven't finished carbon chemistry yet but I'm pretty sure every lesson has questions at the end along with further questions to research on the internet. One of the questions was what impurities will color a diamond. One asked about the health effects of a certain chemical.

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Hi, we've also used Mapping the World with Art and it's video-based.  There is an ebook that goes with it with some supplementary reading, etc.  But, it's mostly watch the lesson on the DVD and work through the drawing.  She also has a YouTube channel with videos that go along with the region you are drawing.  IOW, it's different from her chemistry stuff.  My kids really enjoyed Mapping the World with Art, too.

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We're midway through Excavating English.  I haven't used any of the other McHenry materials but from what is described it is fairly different in format, as would be expected I think based on the subject matter (linguistics and vocabulary).  There are a lot activities and puzzles and videos, but no "worksheets" and much of what's there can/should be done verbally.  It does have a great sense of play and we're having a lot of fun with it, though, so in that way it sounds in line with the spirit of her other materials.

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