Halcyon Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I am looking for an order for this-I don't really "get" his flowchart LOL.... I know there are lots of sequences out there for Vol. 1 but haven't seen any for Vol. 2...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joysworld Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I have volume one, and I don't get that flow chart either. Hope you get some answers:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentlemommy Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I was just coming here to ask about the order of lessons for volume one. I'm a litle confused...do I do all the thread A lessons first? Or follow four threads simultaneously, doing lesson one of all four, then lesson two, and so on?:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleIzumi Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I was just coming here to ask about the order of lessons for volume one. I'm a litle confused...do I do all the thread A lessons first? Or follow four threads simultaneously, doing lesson one of all four, then lesson two, and so on?:confused: You can go in pretty much any order, as long as one lesson doesn't require a certain lesson first. There is a "prerequisites" list in each lesson if one exists. You can go I'd say halfway through one thread before you begin seeing prerequisites for other threads, like magnets in A and North/South/East/West in D. There are sample schedules in the Yahoo group if that would help you. I like to pick what sounds good :lol: so this works well for me. Let's do friction. Any prerequisites? Sweet. Let's do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted October 2, 2011 Author Share Posted October 2, 2011 Yep, I get BFSU 1-there a lot of sample schedules out there...but haven't seen any for BFSU 2 and while I am using it as a supplement, I'd still like to see how others have tackled the flowchart! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeeBeaks Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I haven't seen any sample schedules for vol. 2 either. I'm new to the program this year, and doing vol 1 with my younger and vol 2 with my older. I have begun on vol 1 but not on 2 yet as I'm still honestly trying to completely plan it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted October 2, 2011 Author Share Posted October 2, 2011 I think I'm cool with not planning it out too much <shocker!> and just moving from one thread to another, trying to keep them all "even"....but still, it would be nice to hear how others have implemented it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 You can go in pretty much any order, as long as one lesson doesn't require a certain lesson first. There is a "prerequisites" list in each lesson if one exists. You can go I'd say halfway through one thread before you begin seeing prerequisites for other threads, like magnets in A and North/South/East/West in D. There are sample schedules in the Yahoo group if that would help you. I like to pick what sounds good :lol: so this works well for me. Let's do friction. Any prerequisites? Sweet. Let's do it. That's right. Exactly what we did here. Used BFSU K-2, going on 3-5 next year. One of the Yahoo! Groups schedules is mine, BTW. I chopped the schedule into three years - K, 1s, and 2nd. Loved being able to pick what is interesting or relevant at the moment, and the level of knowledge building in each subsequent tier. No, don't do all A first. You could do 2-3 As, then hop over to Life Science and do 2 chapters on that, then 2 chapters of Chemistry, 2-3 of Earth, noting the interrelatedness among them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted October 2, 2011 Author Share Posted October 2, 2011 That's right. Exactly what we did here. Used BFSU K-2, going on 3-5 next year. One of the Yahoo! Groups schedules is mine, BTW. I chopped the schedule into three years - K, 1s, and 2nd. Loved being able to pick what is interesting or relevant at the moment, and the level of knowledge building in each subsequent tier. No, don't do all A first. You could do 2-3 As, then hop over to Life Science and do 2 chapters on that, then 2 chapters of Chemistry, 2-3 of Earth, noting the interrelatedness among them. That's pretty much what we're doing. Our spine is still Core Knowledge, but he adds a lot our discussions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted October 2, 2011 Author Share Posted October 2, 2011 If you see my siggie, you can see my conversion of the Baltimore Curriculum Project's lesson plans for 4th grade science. They use the HUGE Core Knowledge pdf (the free teacher resource which is linked on my other computer; will add it later) There are two main reasons I like this curriculum for science: 1) I know they're covering important topics and 2) We DO it. It is easily implemented, and great as a spine. BFSU 2 will provide some great supplemental material, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa in the UP of MI Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I was just coming here to ask about the order of lessons for volume one. I'm a litle confused...do I do all the thread A lessons first? Or follow four threads simultaneously, doing lesson one of all four, then lesson two, and so on?:confused: If you look in the files section of the yahoo group there are several sample schedules. You don't have to follow any of them, but it will give you a better idea of how you might do it. I also found writing the name of each lesson on a notecard and shuffling them around to be helpful, though I've changed my original schedule many times already! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa in the UP of MI Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 We're still early on in BFSU 1, but after I received BFSU 2 I made up a sample schedule. This was after just skimming the lessons a little and trying to meet the prerequisites. I had wanted to group a few lessons from one thread together before moving on to the next. Most of the blocks were 6 weeks long, other than December and summer lessons. So I had a life science block starting in September, a nature of matter block starting halfway through October, December was Advent studies with science sometimes linking in (one year it was candy making along with the crystallization lessons from level 1, one year was light, etc.), then there was a physical science block starting in January, an earth and space science block starting halfway through February, and another life science block starting in April. During the summer I had scheduled plant lessons, plus other summerish/outdoor lessons or just little bits that didn't really fit in during the school year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto2Cs Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I'm working on a flow chart for the second volume right now - I'll share if you like when I'm done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted October 2, 2011 Author Share Posted October 2, 2011 I'm working on a flow chart for the second volume right now - I'll share if you like when I'm done! Thank you! I'd love to see it :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Bump! Anyone have a nice schedule for bfsu vol 2? ☺ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenDaisies Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I don't use the flow chart when scheduling because it is hard to follow. I look at the pre-requisites. I have a schedule that I can share when I get back to my computer. I found 2 to be much easier to schedule. There seemed to be less pre-requisites between threads, so I essentially scheduled a few lessons from A, then a few from B, and then a few from C and then D and repeated for the next year. Level 1 had so many pre-requisites across threads making it much harder to schedule - there was a lot more jumping around between threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I've tentatively decided to do threads A, B, and D in 3rd grade (allowing 2 weeks for most lessons) and spend 4th on C. It should look something like this: D12 and D9: cabbage Earth and seasons (review)A11 particle motionA12 particle motion & temperatureA13 particles, heat, and pressureA14 elements and compoundsA15 intro to densityA16 floating shipsA17 heat, volume, densityA18 convectionD10 water cycleD13 climateD11 tectonicsB13 cellsB14 cell divisionB15 more cellsB19 microscopic org.B16 fungi/ bacteriaB17 fungi/ bacteria IIB18 fungi/ bacteria III and then C8 flight C9 balance C10 movement, energy, momentum C11 mechanics, levers C12 more simple machines C13 electricity C13A more electricity C14 still more electricity C15 light and vision. Holler if you see any problems re: prerequisites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I found volume 2 had a lot fewer cross-thread prerequisites. I'm not at home, but for the most part we are working the book straight through. I did wish I had bumped the lesson on density further back chronologically. Perhaps we should have held off on the A thread altogether. We did it in 3rd grade, but because my dc hadn't spent much time on division at that point we went really slowly, spread it out over a month, and I kept my examples simple and straightforward. Even so, we will finish the book in 4th or the beginning of 5th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanikit Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 We only started BFSU2 recently. We started with B21 and then moved back to the sections on cells and are now moving through the B thread as listed. Through book 1 I just picked a thread and then made sure the pre requisites were covered first. At the beginning of the book this took a fair amount of time, but after a good deal of the threads had been covered it got much easier. Book 2 appears to be even easier to follow fairly linearly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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