love2read Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Anyone use this book? Did you like it? Did dc? I know it's Christian and have skimmed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi mum Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Short answer: Yes, I have used it. No, I didn't like it. No, dc didn't like it. This was my third time teaching High School level Biology. I was looking for something to use with my 10 year old who had breezed through Apologia Physical Science the year before. I bought it because it was cheap and it covered the human body (Apologia didn't) without going into too much detail (for a 10 year old) on reproduction. We found it very dry. It assumed that you were teaching it in a classroom and that the teacher was also presenting additional material that wasn't in the book. I had skimmed through the end of section questions and they looked good, but a lot of the answers weren't found in the book. Very frustrating. After 4 chapters DS asked if we coud please go back to Apologia. I must say I now really appreciate having books that are written to the student, teach vocabulary, provide (answerable) review questions and testing. Trying to save money didn't work for us in this situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
love2read Posted October 8, 2011 Author Share Posted October 8, 2011 Thanks, that's what I suspected. We already have a few biology textbooks on our shelves and I don't want to go with another dry book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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