It may be new. My first month I only had access up to unit 4, Next to 7. Then I did pay for a whole year and had access to everything. You can cancel at anytime still. Now that I think of it maybe if you pay full price you can get everything. My first month was $1 and my second was free while waiting for the Homeschool buyers co op deal to go through.

If you only want to use it for a few units I am not sure then. You don't get access to everything all at once unless you buy the year upfront. Each month you are given access to 1-2 more units. As far as the supplies yes I do have to go to 2-3 stores. The $ store, Walmart and Radio Shack. But I went through the list for 5 units at once and went and got everything I needed for that month. We are on unit 7 and I have only gone to Radio Shack once. Walmart I am in weekly so that wasn't a problem. It can be expensive. I think for the first few units we spent $100 but most of the stuff can be reused. I think with what I have bought already (aside from the Chemistry units that will be $100 if we choose to do those ones if not the rest of the chemistry ones are things from home) But I think we can do units 0-10 on $100 in supplies. I think it is going to depend on the kid Mine gets up Monday mornings and it is the first thing he does and he does do it on his own. He then during the week re does some experiments.

We use it. We have for about 2-3 months now and we just bought a year membership. My son Loves it! We do use it as our only Science program at the moment. It has some reading, some videos one to two pages of questions you can print off and a TON of experiments. I am not sure it is very indepth. As it has about 19 units. And then some pre getting started stuff and science fair experements and some math. So you could get 22 or so weeks out of it if you do one a week.Some are longer and may need 2 weeks. My son can do all the reading, videos and questions in a 2 hour block and then the experiments maybe another 2-4 hours. so he can do a unit a week. But what I don't like about it is that it is just a sampling of Science. Meaning there are 2 units on Chemistry, 2 on energy etc... So it is more a general Science class then a specific subject. From June to August she has a summer camp which is just fun experiments(No readings) So with that said we did buy a year membership because my son loves it that much but next year he will also be doing Earth Science also. Also you do have to buy supplies. Most is stuff you can get at the $1 store or have at home but for the 2 units of Chemistry it will be over $100. My son does 3-4 units a month and I probably spend $50 a month on supplies. Of course you can pick and choose which ones to do. Mine picks the exensive ones but they are cool like solar cars and hovercrafts etc.. I like it enough that I did sign up to be an affiliate.

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I have a 12 yr old 6th grade and most days we do. He is very goal oriented and wants to get the job done before he takes breaks. We do sort of a block schedule.He does 2-3 hours each subject. Monday is math, Tuesday is Language Arts, Wednesday is Science, Thursday is Social Studies, Friday is catch up or extra days. He then does spend about a half hour each day for what we call electives. He chooses which one that day and for how long.(Foreign Language, Technology, etc...) This does not include his hour or reading a day or his book he is writing, or co op classes, watching movies or field trips. These I consider extras and they are up to him to get done. I don't think I could make his day any longer unless I gave him busy work. He already finishes most of it before the end of our school year. He is getting great grades so I don't see giving him more work to make his day busier. We don't use a formal curriculum. I piece mine together. Most of it though is bought.(Math is yourteacher.com I make him take the pretest if he gets a 100 he can go to the post test and if he gets an 80 or above I don't make him do the lesson 90% of the time he doesn't do the lesson. And when I give him tests the chapter tests he is getting over an 90. No sense in just keeping him busy.

I use Scholaric. Simple to use. It is $12 for the year for one child. I can plan, add scores and check off what we did. It then keeps a gradebook and a report card.