Science

[MotherOfBoys]

I am wondering about your thoughts on apologia young explorer series verse John Tiner's exploring the world of series. We just finished Ellen Mchenry's the elements and loved it. We loved the games, songs, challenge to memorize the table, few worksheets and the finger print people. They memorized half the table and can explain what most are used for. We dont want science to end over the summer.

 

I have apologia zoology 3 land animals and their botany book. I would rather do what I know we love which is mchenry's stuff but we already own this. I dont want to kill their love of science and I worry apologia might do that. It seems long, lacking cartoon figures, and overly wordy. I want them to memorize some of the classifications of the animal kingdom though or learn about cells and photosynthesis. Some vocab like mchenry had would be nice without turning them off.

 

I own Tiner's physics which was going to be 1. A coop class next year and 2. Continues our welltrainedmind science cycle next year. So i dont care to start that early. There is a biology one or the medicine one im interested in for the summer.

 

Is mchenry's botany and cell book as good as elements? I'd be willing to get the digial download of those. My boys like the challenge of memorizing if the stuff is explained alittle with it.

 

What have you had luck with? They are young boys with lots of questions. We would like a two to three day a week and one hour or so a day science to end in the fall. The middle of the day is too hot to go outside.

Edited May 9, 2016 by MotherOfBoys

[Staceyshoe]

I can't comment on the others, but we've done all of McHenry's science programs.  They are similar in approach *except* botany.  We followed The Elements with Carbon Chemistry and then worked our way through the others.  McHenry's programs would work well during the summer because they are short and fun.

The botany program has a simpler lesson followed by a more advanced lesson for each chapter.  So a more advanced student would do the whole thing, while a younger child would just do the first level of each chapter.  This would make it easier to combine different ages.  Botany also has a lapbook (which is optional but included in the price) and videos.  It seems like there were fewer games and hands-on experiments.  It just overall had a different approach to the teaching than all the others.  Ds still adored it.  He loved all of her science programs.

[MotherOfBoys]

We want to do the swamp water one but it says ages 10-. The Elements was 8-. Botany is 8-.

[SanDiegoMom]

We loved botany -- I did it at 7 and I will probably do it again at the more advanced level for 6th grade! They have forgotten a lot and I didn't do everything.

 

We also just started the brand new one -- Poseidon's Adventure or whatever its called -- about Protozoa.  The kids are pysched, especially since it has some greek mythology.  And the games and crafts are always the most loved.  

I bought cells and Carbon chemistry for last year but we never got to them :(  I kind of regret that, but we will just try to hit them another time. 

[MotherOfBoys]

So i bought the protozoa one and the botany one last night. I couldnt stop thinking about it. My boys had this week off of formal h. schooling and played prodigy all week. We need something else we can do outside. It was only $29 total for the digital of both.

[SanDiegoMom]

Awesome! Have fun! We keep the favorite games around and play them occasionally for review. I loved the photosynthesis game in Botany that uses beans to represent the molecules of carbon and hydrogen, etc. My kids are planning to make the Paramecium pillow next week. I'm outsourcing that to a friend who actually sews:-)