EKS Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 How do those of you who do CPO Life Science do the labs? Do you use the investigations that come with the program? If so, are there enough of them that are homeschool friendly enough to suit you? If not, what have you done for the hands-on stuff? I've looked at the eScience middle school life science kit and it looks as though it it is heavy on play doh and beads and light on actual science work. Is there anything else that would work? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 How do those of you who do CPO Life Science do the labs? Do you use the investigations that come with the program? If so, are there enough of them that are homeschool friendly enough to suit you? If not, what have you done for the hands-on stuff? I've looked at the eScience middle school life science kit and it looks as though it it is heavy on play doh and beads and light on actual science work. Is there anything else that would work? We did most of the CPO Life Science labs with a few substitutions of materials and a few substituions of labs. I added extracting DNA from a strawberry (easily found on internet) for one of the DNA labs because it just seemed like more fun than one of the DNA labs in the book, not because I couldn't have done it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 We are doing it now. We're on ch8 and buy what we need from homesciencetools.com The hardest part is lack of specificity in the directions, but I can share which ones we did and any issues if you pm me. Brownie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kangato3 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 We are doing most of them. I have another child doing high school biology, so we invested in a microscope and slides this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt_Uhura Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I'm doing it now....I'm shadowing Brownie. She's been extremely helpful. For the labs where you don't have the supplies, w/ the exception of the microscope, sample data is in the teacher's manual so you can still discuss it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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