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apologia astronomy co-op - any suggestions?


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I will be doing apologia science in co-op - meeting 24 weeks/once each week, for about 45minutes. (doing other classes along with it) We will be doing 2/3rd graders and 4/5th graders.

 

My thought is that families will do all of the reading at home, and we'll do some activities and experiments in class, along with fun review games. We will follow their schedule of doing two weeks per chapter. We'll drop the first and last chapters, and have families do those completely at home, so the rest of the book will fit our 24 weeks.

 

Any suggestions on how you think this will work? Are experiments easy, and will they fit into our co-op time? Just anything at all you can share or suggest will be greatly appreciated!

 

-vanessa

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We did Apologia Astronomy last year as a co-op pretty much how you just described it. The families would read the chapter at home, and then the students would complete the experiments in class. As homework the students would work on their notebooks.

 

ETA: The experiments did fit nicely into an hour and fifteen minute time slot. Each student was responsible for bringing in the required materials for each project, and many parents sent in extras just in case a student didn't have everything they needed.

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Uh-oh .. we only have about 50 minutes per class. Do you think we can do the experiments in that time? Our hope was to do some review, then the experiment...

 

Did each child do the experiment, with the teacher supervising, or did the teacher do the experiment and the students watched?

 

Thanks,

-vanessa

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I think it could be done in 50 minutes if you had the entire 50 minutes. We made sure that students were ready to go as soon as we got there, and we jumped right in. Each student did their own project/experiment. On some days we did have a fun review beforehand but on other days we didn't have time for a huge review, like when we did the volcanoes and ice cream. We also included K and 1st graders so there was a big need for teacher involvement, with older kids you may be able to get more in.

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