How did you schedule Tiner's Word of Chemistry and/or McHenry's Elements and Carbon Chemistry

[Meriwether]

If you have used one, two, or all of these, how did you schedule them?

[Lori D.]

If you have used one, two, or all of these, how did you schedule them?

 

 

Only used Tiner's World of Chemistry. We scheduled a chapter a week, and would take 2-4 days to read the chapter (read a few pages a day), depending on how long the chapter was and how much we needed/wanted to discuss. Not big on comprehension questions here, so we skipped the end-of-chapter quizzes. We finished the book in a little under a semester.

 

JMO, but I thought this book -- but esp. the World of Physics and World of Math books by Tiner -- were really best for grades 7-9, esp. if you're planning on this being read solo by the student. The Chemistry, Physics and Math books by Tiner were a bit drier (?) or more abstract than his Exploring Planet Earth and History of Medicine (although, we enjoyed all of the Tiner books we read). If you have an advanced 4th or 5th grader who really enjoys and understands science, esp. Chemistry topics, then give World of Chemistry a try, esp. if reading it aloud together.

 

Just our experience. Cheers! Lori D.

[Meriwether]

Only used Tiner's World of Chemistry. We scheduled a chapter a week, and would take 2-4 days to read the chapter (read a few pages a day), depending on how long the chapter was and how much we needed/wanted to discuss. Not big on comprehension questions here, so we skipped the end-of-chapter quizzes. We finished the book in a little under a semester.

 

JMO, but I thought this book -- but esp. the World of Physics and World of Math books by Tiner -- were really best for grades 7-9, esp. if you're planning on this being read solo by the student. The Chemistry, Physics and Math books by Tiner were a bit drier (?) or more abstract than his Exploring Planet Earth and History of Medicine (although, we enjoyed all of the Tiner books we read). If you have an advanced 4th or 5th grader who really enjoys and understands science, esp. Chemistry topics, then give World of Chemistry a try, esp. if reading it aloud together.

 

Just our experience. Cheers! Lori D.

 

I have Tiner's and both McHenry units, and I agree that Tiner's is a bit dry. I thought Tiner's looked like it would take about a week/chapter. I think I'll schedule it for the spring semester and do McHenry's Elements and Carbon Chemistry in the fall.

 

In regards to the bolded, Dd10 is advanced (will be doing 6th grade), but we will read through all of her chemistry together. I am having the hardest time planning her school for next year. She wants and needs some harder, more involved material (she requested Chemistry), but she wants to do everything that the boys are doing next year (Prairie Primer), too.

[TracyP]

I have Tiner's and both McHenry units, and I agree that Tiner's is a bit dry. I thought Tiner's looked like it would take about a week/chapter. I think I'll schedule it for the spring semester and do McHenry's Elements and Carbon Chemistry in the fall.

 

In regards to the bolded, Dd10 is advanced (will be doing 6th grade), but we will read through all of her chemistry together. I am having the hardest time planning her school for next year. She wants and needs some harder, more involved material (she requested Chemistry), but she wants to do everything that the boys are doing next year (Prairie Primer), too.

 

I thought about combining Tiner with McHenry's Elements. :lurk5:

 

I mostly posted to commiserate. I am in exactly the same boat with my oldest. She is very ready to advance on her own, but she wants to be with her brother. Last year I was able to make it work. I'm not sure if I can this year.

[Nicholas_mom]

I am all ears because I am going to use Tiner with Elements and Carbon Chemistry next yr, too!................

[Lori D.]

Meriwether -- I forgot to mention that, while we were not doing either of the other 2 books you asked about, we *were* doing the Tiner as a supplement to the science we were already doing that year. So, the Tiner would take about 20 min/day, 2-4 days/week, and then we were doing the other science for 60-90 min/day, 2 days/week. (We did longer blocks for science and history, and alternated days, with Fridays as "catch-up" for whatever was left for either subject.)

[Meriwether]

Meriwether -- I forgot to mention that, while we were not doing either of the other 2 books you asked about, we *were* doing the Tiner as a supplement to the science we were already doing that year. So, the Tiner would take about 20 min/day, 2-4 days/week, and then we were doing the other science for 60-90 min/day, 2 days/week. (We did longer blocks for science and history, and alternated days, with Fridays as "catch-up" for whatever was left for either subject.)

 

That is very good to know. That wouldn't add too much to our day. I'm hoping that Chemistry, Art of Argument, and WWS can be done in an average of a little over 1 hr/day or about 6 hrs/week. Dd is an efficient worker, but I have no idea how long WWS is supposed to take. I guess that is what I should look at next.

[Meriwether]

 

I thought about combining Tiner with McHenry's Elements. :lurk5:

 

I mostly posted to commiserate. I am in exactly the same boat with my oldest. She is very ready to advance on her own, but she wants to be with her brother. Last year I was able to make it work. I'm not sure if I can this year.

 

I hope you get it figured out. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do. She is capable of advanced work in most things, but she is still a kid. She still needs to work on handwriting. We do barely any art, because she doesn't care for it. But she wants to do everything else. She wants to do Prairie Primer with the boys but wants to do logic and Chemistry, too. She recently started piano and wants to do band at the local public school. She does TKD a couple times a week, AWANAS, and seasonal sports and wonders why she can't do Girl Scouts and traveling sports teams. She does 7+ hours of school/day. She will occasionally watch Tv in the evenings or on weekends, but she would rather be at an activity, play with the neighborhood kids, play a game with the family, bake something, ride bike, etc. She usually reads a book each night at bedtime.

 

Sometimes I think I give her too much schoolwork, but she is a doer. She likes to be busy. She says she doesn't really want to learn Spanish, but she does Duolingo fairly regularly even though we aren't really doing Spanish yet.

 

So for now, I'm trying to make a workable schedule with everything included, but she'll have the option to opt out of the Prairie Primer stuff.

[Tammi K]

Tanglewood Curriculum has a lesson plan guide to Tiner's Chemistry on this page. Click on the green 'Science 1' link. It's a daily lesson plan that my daughter used a few years ago. It's scheduled over a 4 week period. Best of all - it's free.

[Meriwether]

Thank you for the information on Tanglwood. It is Grade 5 if anyone is interested. I wonder if I could do Chemistry over a summer+ either this one or next.