one more link with ideas. (and I also sent some to your PM with a longer syllabus) But this caught my eye from Oregon State. FW 112. SCIENCE OF FLY FISHING TROUT. link to college syllabus in a moment. You'll need to search in the letter F for the course. But it will list ideas for each week for that. (Students are also required to be enrolled in Eng 225 The Literature of Fly Fishing for Trout and Physical Activity Course with fly fishing in it). But maybe that FW 112 syllabus will give you ideas to develop your non traditional biology class. https://catalog.oregonstate.edu/courses/syllabi/ yes, I know that course is 1 credit by itself. But it's a framework to help.

and some more inspiration: https://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/education/foreducators/curricula.cfm https://www.fws.gov/fisheries/environmental-education.html

Maybe looking at some of the course descriptions from Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)'s Fisheries, Aquaculture and aquasciences department might give you some ideas. click on the descriptions that are available. some list objectives, some list texts. here. https://fisheries.siu.edu/courses/ or maybe some ideas on hot topics in fly fishing. https://www.missoulianangler.com/category/fly-fishing-hot-topics/ or biology of a specific fish https://anglr.com/bass-fishing/largemouth-bass-biology/ and of course, there's the basic fish dissection lab to do. just need a write up with it. right?

Would it help anyone to access School on TV in Memphis? https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/news/education/ maybe it could help give some of your students some structure even though it won't match their school stuff. In Memphis I guess the access is in various ways with tv channel and internet.

love the parade! on Sunday when I heard the news, I couldn't decide if it was too early to sing his song Prop Me Up (as a honoring of the fun and joy his music brought). Other fans were ok with that. My dh thought I was a little insensitive. But now, after that parade, I'm back to listening to John Deere Green. prayers for the family and friends.

I'm thinking you are remembering the one Chemistry. He also did a review of 3rd edition General Science (and 2nd edition marine biology) I'm not finding Biology review from him right now.

giggle. I saw the version of it where the second picture was Wonder Woman and 2 other female bad a$$ characters. But I like the feel on this one too. thanks

yeah, your system has thought of that and solutions are there with time zones. My point was more that I was just surprised being sensitive to time zones wasn't in the article as something to be mindful for the student's stress levels especially mentioning the detail about after 9pm for any kids in the house. yep. agreeing with proctor overload. My middle daughter will need about 3 study.com classes this summer into fall. I hope it's all back to normal by then. But unproctored exams have worked ok with her courses (in non MOOC settings). But then again, she hasn't done physics. I'm sure you'll find the balance. hope this is encouraging. even in smaller courses where online course has been established for several semesters, some times stuff goes weird. give yourself grace and patience when it does.

Not an instructor but was interested. One thing that was not addressed (or I missed it) was Time Limits and students with disabilities. For students who get time and a half (with on campus tests), may need a way to have extended time. I've noticed in my dd's online classes (she signed up for those), the time given to everyone seems to be in mind for time and a half to get it done. No one is rushed then. Others will handle it other ways. and yes, I'm sure some get 1.5 x of the time limit. Hope that insight helps some of you with planning and doing what you are supposed to do with ADA stuff. I really liked the proctoring suggestion on the blog. These students signed up for in class. don't ask them to get webcam and resort to proctorU or RPNow as if you are suddenly using a study.com course to transfer to Thomas Edison. (not that we're there yet with middle gal, but soon..... ) and remember, pick a time zone for that 11:59 pm. your students will be scattered around now. I'm in a state with two time zones. Students in my daughter's state wide online course are in both of those. The school picked one. good luck to y'all.

I found the song. 🙂 go on youtube for COVID 19 (Come on Eileen) by Sam Chaplin

Middle gal is taking online sections of community college courses using brightspace/d2l. Exams are available for certain day and amount of time, the test is timed, not proctored, open book/notes, most have been multiple choice, some have had "short answer". English Comp I "final" was a timed essay on short poem. Comp II was papers and open book quizzes. other grades came from other assignments and discussion board. not sure that helps original poster as the course sections had fewer than 30 students and weren't physics/math.

oldest did college alg clep after finishing saxon alg 1, jacobs geometry, saxon alg 2. Then did the clep prep on the DIVE cd (by Shorrmann). added some practice tests. Those were probably from REA, but could have been Peterson's. I don't remember now. Remember that you can practice with calculator software. look on clep site for info, and/or here's link to the ETS calculator and you just select the test https://ibt2calc.ets.org/ I don't know how it compares to being ready at end of alg 2 vs end of pre calc class. But she did need the clep prep from DIVE which covered 20 specific lessons from saxon advanced book (pre calc). So I'm one of those with older posts that said after alg 2, but in context make sure y'all know the prep included 20 lessons in pre calc. Middle gal did the clep pre-calc (because her community college wouldn't take the algebra one) after finishing saxon advanced and modern states pre calc and lots of practice. she passed. I know pre calc wasn't asked about, but maybe that info point will help someone. American Gov't: middle gal did that clep a year or so after she had used bju US history and a basic gov't course that mfw offers (I can't remember titles. it's on their site). did the us 1 and us 2 clep and then a little later after the modern states class did the gov't clep. that was 1.5 years ago. we used practice tests from Petersons because they were free at our library online reference. I have a feeling that she did the gov't clep prep so quickly and easily was because of the overlap with history study. well that and it was her 8th clep test so she was getting good at it.

It could have been from my oldest's experience. Since she took CLEP lit after freshman year of college, she was not in the final 30 hours of degree, so it transferred. :)

Another aspect in the CLEP taken while enrolled in college has to do with "residency". That does not mean where you live. not that kind of "residency". It means how many credits earned toward degree taken at the degree granting institution and when they are earned. Example: if university requires that the final 25% of degree (aka the last 30 credits of 120 credit degree) be completed at the college, then you can't CLEP (or transfer a course from other college too) once you're in that last 30 credits. In the case with my oldest, she was not in those 30 credits when she did that gen ed CLEP. perhaps that same kind of thing applied to momto6inIN. Transferring a course or clep or other credit by exam option will vary by university for enrolled students as lori is saying. Most CLEPs are going to be Gen Ed courses so you'll want to have those done before college senior year anyway. I remember working at a university where we had summer students taking our physics course and transferring back to their main campus. Not all colleges allow that. ok. But that's just an example where even a regionally accredited course may or may not apply to degree based on factors that you can't predict while in high school. just some random stuff I've learned over the years and wanted to share

I can share my opinions and experience. CLEP exams are banked at college board for 20 years. don't know on AP exams. I know with AP exams after four years, you can still get them sent but just not convenient online way. but not a hard process. downside to clep exam: may not be used for giving credit at a specific college you go to. even colleges that accept some clep exams for credit do not accept all. My oldest took CLEP college algebra while in high school, but did not give that score to her college as it wouldn't matter for her degree and didn't mean anything extra for funding. No real downside though. It helped me to know she was learning math in high school and my mommy grade was good. helped the homeschool cover school to let it be called honors. oh, for context, my oldest was a triple stem major, so she needed calc and above. She took clep analyzing and interpreting literature to meet college gen ed requirement. so not a downside for her. She was at a competitive engineering university, but not "selective" or "elite" university. Our state lets homeschoolers these days (not back when oldest was eligible) to use 1 clep exam with certain score to make them eligible for a state grant at college. I can only imagine and wildly speculate what elite admissions would say if you had clep exams, and that answer is ignore them if they don't take them for credit. Middle gal is my clep gal. Not doing elite places. a huge chunk of community college associates degree was completed with 9 clep exams. AP was not a reality choice for her. She was never going to elite place and is a slow to average learner. But she was good at learning by reading and then found the format of clep good fit. She was technically out of high school when it all clicked and she self studied and passed 9 clep exams and went on to take part time classes at community college. She might end up doing of one those "big 3" degree by credit by exam kind of places. never thought I'd be one of those. giggle. if you don't know which college is in the picture, and you're thinking of clep... good question. I think I'll chime back in another time. various allergy meds this week are kicking in and I'm tired. you might like to read this blog article from someone who is more "pro clep" and other non traditional credits to get the idea of rah rah rah yeah CLEP and ACE credit! wahoo! but I'm linking to an article where she is explaining the good with AP and then gives a compare chart with clep vs ap. https://homeschoolingforcollegecredit.com/5-advanced-placement-exam-ap/

Here's our story with all of that. Middle daughter used modernstates for clep prep and vouchers for the clep test. So using modern states is not limited to those in Indiana and hoping to go to Purdue. Wanted to make sure you know that in case of CLEP prep and free voucher were in future. you can use modernstates directly. and my middle daughter did for 9 clep exams. So, yeah that can work with american gov't for you. I"ll post a bit more on that in a moment. but we have a ASU story in the mix. In fall of 2017 middle daughter used the sociology class that was available on the early version of ASU's earned admission. At the time, modern states did not have their own sociology class and directed us to edX and ASU "global freshman academy" which morphed in ASU Earned Admission. Her goal was to do the free version of the class (I don't think that is available any longer ??) and then take CLEP exam instead of paying the ASU fee for course transcript. at the time, modern state was in the process of just getting their sociology class finished and it all worked out. An unusual case, I realize, to use a being phasing out non credit version of the course for sociology clep prep. but it worked for us. I'm assuming ASU kept most of the soc course for the current version. Depending on maturity of students and your values, you may want to sit through some of the videos and discuss together before any discussion board stuff. Advantages that I have seen with ASU earned admission is cost of regionally accredited courses that give earned credit. Cost is good. 25 fee for something. and then 400 dollars for 3 credit hours. Because it is transcript from regionally accredited university, it should be easier to transfer to other places just like any dual enrollment college courses. Not all places take all clep exams. And that of course you already know and stated. 🙂 disadvantage I have heard about is that tuition at asu is heavy if you stay there after the EA program. but doesn't sound like that's an issue for you. sounds like they offer some options that seem right in your cases where AP isn't best fit in your situation. now, back to the clep prep and modern state and amercian gov't. Middle gal did a basic, essentials american gov't in grade 11 using whatever mfwbooks was selling. 2 years later (while at end of a gap year of self study with clep prep), she reviewed with what modern states had available. took multiple practice exams available at our library on the Peterson's brand (ask your library if they have access to the Testing Resources offered electronically for Gale/Cengage powered by Peterson's for all kinds of testing. I'm just sharing what we had free access to with library card. Peterson's can be purchased online as well as REA guides for test prep. of note, middle daughter also had already passed US 1 and US 2 clep exams a few months before the american government one. and that helped with knowledge to pass. If this is for the dd you list doing thinkwell, you'll be in good shape to go with clep test prep options such as modern states or in my opinion. or if ASU has a course, that' too. hope some of that helps. forgive and excuse messy writing. been fighting cold and early allergies and the meds are strong. 🙂 edit to add random PS on that. When middle daughter took the asu sociology, many of the students were starbucks employees using work benefits to complete degree. just random tidbit on who students were. that all changes each semester of course. edit in 2021: youngest was part of Beta group with ASU's "universal learner" (the current in 2021 name for ASU earned admission) with Bio 100, The living world. very different approach with lab, and kinda fun learning for non major. again, not bad for dual enrollment regionally accredited course. low risk factor to GPA issues because it's not a "college transcript" until you get the grade you want.

I can share a few things that I observed. My middle used first edition a few years ago and she enjoyed the text. She is not majoring bio, but enjoys learning nature topics. Used this text in grade 12, and she’s doing very well in her college biology non majors. (lots of reading). I remember when she was done with this book she said it was one of her favorite courses in high school and was a little sad the book was over. She was interested in the topic and enjoyed the style of presentation. I know other people will have other reactions. If I had made my oldest do this course, oh dear. anyway. I got the mp3 audio for middle gal to listen as reading along. She loved looking at slides and doing some stuff. (you could probably search for images online as a good enough sub if the slides are too expensive) I'm pretty sure we skipped any in person dissections this time (and watched those or did a virtual version). and our brine shrimp (aka sea monkeys LOL) didn't go that great. but that's a minor thing, right? I still have my first edition book and can only look at online samples to comment. Same author on both. So I’d expect content changes to be minor. This author is also the author of “general science third edition” if that info was not known. Looking at samples vs my book table of contents: Modules orders are same. Subsections seem the same names and order as well. Experiments: I notice experiments 1.1, and 4.2 are different from first to current editions. An experiment was added in module 7. layout of material goes from “first edition apologia” to current layout. Colors are more popping in current edition. Minor editorial changes (changing word choice from “additionally” to “second”. Stuff like that) I like the photograph and diagram improvements. Most of the time it’s the same figure, but the fresh look is nice. And of course with second edition there are more student support resources. I know the first few page of module 1 approach the introduction differently. But it has the feel of minor rewrites to me.

then, there's the Evangelical Pres. Church. This link will take you to their "about us" page. https://epc.org/about/ I don't know which flavor of Pres you need. but if they are EPC, that has some basics of history, governance, beliefs. unsinkable, you might see the church you're giving tour has a brochure available to help on tour? I was visiting a "reformed pres" church one time for homeshcool co-op and they have a little handout thing. It was new to me that they do not use instruments on Sundays. But our kind of Pres uses them (and with skilled musicians and it's a big part of our beliefs and yet not part of my friend's practices. that's cool. ) So they knew it was a FAQ and had it on hand to answer. Maybe this historical place has one too?

and I've read on the blog for the Common Application that it's not as much of a flag during admissions as some think if you have a college class that does not show up on high school. You still have to send the college transcript. Here, read the whole page of course but https://appsupport.commonapp.org/applicantsupport/s/article/How-do-I-report-a-college-course-I-took-during-high-school-in-Courses-Grades "If you are not receiving high school credit for the course, you do not need to report this course in Courses & Grades." so if they don't need to see it, then it's ok if it is not getting high school credit. with that said, agreeing with others who stated other options with listing, etc. is ok too. I mean, it's PE.

following along on this thread. I wanted to try that with middle gal with attention and confidence, and auditory processing issues so we'd have more practice with low stakes. But never tried it and well, here we are still trying to get confidence at age 21 to do this. (homeschool mom failure). I'm going PM you with some info about one of the local driving school's options. sign, it was so much easier with oldest child for us. sigh...

Before putting it in portfolio or transcript, run it by the powers that be at your cover school. See if they have a preference on it.

I'm thankful all is well. Hope this isn't considered tacky but if anyone reading this is wondering what they can do to teach safety drills on this matter before their student goes to college or work, FEMA has a short training "course" for free designed for non law enforcement. https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-907 again, I'm glad chiguirre's daughter and others are ok. sorry if my timing to encourage safety training feels awkward.

We enjoyed Friendly Chemistry for a less math high school chemistry. First semester needed pre algebra. And then I think some limited algebra was needed toward end of second semester. Did not seem "middle school" in scope and sequence to us.

thanks for update. I sure hope you get in touch with someone today and get those screen shots. Something is not right. I truly hope it gets resolved soon and that it is not "just you." not to confuse you more on the transcript thing , but this article on the Common App blog seems to give option that not all college courses have to be given high school credit. so maybe ? https://appsupport.commonapp.org/applicantsupport/s/article/How-do-I-report-a-college-course-I-took-during-high-school-in-Courses-Grades quoted from that link "When high school students simultaneously take college courses through a college or university, this is known as dual enrollment. For Courses & Grades, only courses receiving high school credit (i.e. appearing on your high school transcript) should be reported in this section. If you are not receiving high school credit for the course, you do not need to report this course in Courses & Grades." disclaimer: neither my oldest nor middle had to use Common application for their college/ universities. Each of those had option to use the university's application. So I'm not speaking from experience of using the Common App. I'm just sharing the information showing that there are allowances for variation in this. edit for clarity: * (also on that link is a point we all agree on ) quote: "You must still send official transcripts from your high school(s) AND any college(s) you attended. " (emphasis mine)

I do not agree that giving her an A in a course is the "wrong thing" or "grade inflation". If she were at a brick and mortar high school and took PE and it didn't require much effort (show up, have good attitude), they'd give the A. Even my middle daughter took a credit bearing PE course at community college and got an A with little effort (walked 2 miles every day, logged in, and took some quizzes that were straight from the text). She needed one "free elective" in her associates degree plan. If you don't want to call it anything on your high school, that's up to you. Yes, you'll still have to send the college transcript to another college. But if it is "regular level high school history", it's going to be ok as is. hang in there. It's not a wrong thing.