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My dd will do chemistry this summer in order to move into A&P for 11th grade and take Advanced Chem in 12th. She likes the layout of Apologia and the wordiness - she's a reader. I am looking for a "schedule" of sorts to line it up with Khan Academy. Anyone else done this?

 

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My daughter used both the DVD by Rusty Hughes and Kahn Academy for Apologia Chemistry this year. It's fairly easy to figure out which Kahn videos correspond to which areas of Apologia. She just chose which videos to watch after reading the material and watching the DVD.

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"My daughter used both the DVD by Rusty Hughes and Kahn Academy for Apologia Chemistry this year. It's fairly easy to figure out which Kahn videos correspond to which areas of Apologia. She just chose which videos to watch after reading the material and watching the DVD. "

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Did she enjoy the Hughes dvd? Was it helpful? Or could you have done without and just used Khan?

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She is sitting next to me and just said "Wow, that is a difficult comparison."

 

From her perspective:

They are both really good teachers and both are funny (which she believes makes it a better experience). The only problem is that she feels Khan doesn't touch on every topic that is included in the book. However, it does include topics which are not covered in the General Chemistry book. With Khan you do not get to watch the experiments as you do with the DVD. Rusty also guides the student through the math used in the experiments, which is very helpful towards the end of the book.

 

She went through the book and the DVD very quickly the first semester. Now she has been using Khan to go back through the entire book over again and is gaining a better understanding (she feels it's much simpler for her to watch Khan now -- but that's her learning style). We actually used to attend the same church as Rusty and his family (many of the experiments were recorded in the church kitchen), so she had personal knowledge of his kids that he talks about on the DVD.

 

Sorry this isn't very helpful. She says they are both very good, so it really does depend on what one is looking for and what style of learning one prefers.

 

If you want to ask some additional specific questions she can try to answer them for you.

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She says that she actually finds it easier to just do searches. Here is an example:

 

Search using the word "stoichiometry". It will show 7 matching videos. It will also provide any practice exercise if there are some available (however, there are no practice exercises specifically for chemistry -- you need to go to math sections for that). If what she is looking for does not come up under the the search, then she says she reads through the chemistry list to see if there is something that sounds closely related to a topic in her book.

 

Another example: search using the word "significant figures". This search brings up several videos that are actually listed under some math courses. It also brings up practice exercises. She wouldn't find these by looking only a the chemistry list, but finds those videos and some of the exercises helpful for chemistry, so that is why she prefers to do searches for exactly what she wants to match in her chemistry book.

 

So, it would probably be extremely difficult or at least very time-consuming to attempt to chart out an entire year of Khan videos that correlate to the Apologia book (not impossible though).

 

Does this help at all?

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