Country Girl Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Ds 11 is using Derek Owen's Physical Science course this year, and we have been very happy with it. Next year I am planning on having him take Life Science, and would love to find something similar to DO, but for life science. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 What is it about Derek Owen's science that you like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Country Girl Posted January 28, 2013 Author Share Posted January 28, 2013 What is it about Derek Owen's science that you like? Really, we like just about everything about it. The format of listening to the lecture and filling out the guided notes has been great for ds. He also really enjoys the style of the lectures. He likes things to be pretty straight forward, without all the cute-sy frills, and these seem to fit the bill. I love that the program comes complete with tests, answers, etc. to make my job easier. DS completes this program almost completely independently. If he has trouble understanding a concept, he'll ask, but otherwise I just check his work and discuss any thing he gets wrong. The only thing that is really missing is a strong lab component, but we have remedied that by adding the Logos Science lab kit. This really has been the best year we've ever had for science, and I'd love to keep it going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Country Girl Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 Just bumping and hoping for suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dereksurfs Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 BJU Life Science seems to get good reviews. I would look into that more if we weren't planning on using Rainbow Science instead which is a 2 year program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Country Girl Posted February 1, 2013 Author Share Posted February 1, 2013 BJU Life Science seems to get good reviews. I would look into that more if we weren't planning on using Rainbow Science instead which is a 2 year program. BJU is definitely at the top of my list. I know it is a solid program and will serve him well. However, I'm still holding out hope I can find something I like better ;) . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I loved BJU Life and for solid science I don't think it gets better. However, the YE creation point is drilled throughout this curriculum. We are Christian, but not YE and this level made us decide we couldn't use BJU any more (we used grades 5-7). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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