happycc Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 It is sitting on my shelf sticking its tongue out at me. It took me several weeks to get registered ---that was a complete hassle. Then I went a scheduled a few weeks worth and started the lessons. We had a family death and went back to the site to find all my hard work scheduling it is gone Science experiments =impossible to do as it requires hard to find or expensive stuff, not every experiment has a video BLAH Many things are class oriented stuff in my humble opinion. For some reason I really thought it was more geared for homeschoolers. Well at least with all the advertisements on it at one point Nothing to scream about...Nothing. I need new options... Have used McHenry, Elemental Science, Education Exploration, Moving Beyond the Page I have kids in 6th and 8th grades as well as Ker again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Bean Tripod School Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 We used Science Fusion last year. DD did not like it. The questions were...weird. We only used the worktext though, nothing else. DD liked Pearson Interactive Science a lot better. It's the same concept, but better accomplished, in my opinion. Again, we only used the worktext for that too, so I'm not sure what kinds of other stuff is offered to go with the program. I guess, in short, I have no recommendations LOL. Just a "I was so excited about Science Fusion and it did't work for us either." :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisabees Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 We will be using Big History. Your older kids are the perfect age for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8elbows Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 We're going to try Interactive Science for my 4th & 6th graders. It is also made for the classroom but seems to be a bit more user friendly for homeschoolers. I think anything originally developed for the classroom is going to have bugs for homeschool, but all I hear about Science Fusion is utter frustration. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefgazer Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 ClassiQuest is not too expensive and really a decent middle school program. Exploration Education is also decent, but a tad pricey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happycc Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 Tell me how people use Big History...are you registered life long learners or students/teachers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisabees Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I am registered as a teacher and my kids are students. I choose which parts of the lessons to do, depending on the kid and time constraints. For instance, I had a rising tenth grader do Big History in 10 weeks over the summer. My seventh grader will use it throughout the upcoming school year, using many supplements for science and history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happycc Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 Ok we started today. I have my 8th graders doing it with my 6th grader. I just can't do two sciences and two histories along with my 6yrs old and 2.5yrs. They liked it alot. Loved the mystery start. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happycc Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 I'm doing MysteryScience.com with my 6yrs old. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No More Perfect Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 It is sitting on my shelf sticking its tongue out at me. It took me several weeks to get registered ---that was a complete hassle. Then I went a scheduled a few weeks worth and started the lessons. We had a family death and went back to the site to find all my hard work scheduling it is gone Science experiments =impossible to do as it requires hard to find or expensive stuff, not every experiment has a video BLAH Many things are class oriented stuff in my humble opinion. For some reason I really thought it was more geared for homeschoolers. Well at least with all the advertisements on it at one point Nothing to scream about...Nothing. I need new options... Have used McHenry, Elemental Science, Education Exploration, Moving Beyond the Page I have kids in 6th and 8th grades as well as Ker again. I have no options for you (I'm using Pandia Press' science this year, but for the first time, so I can't tell you what I think of it yet), but I was considering Science Fusion for this year and I am so glad I didn't. All the issues you have with it were things I was concerned about. You validated my decision! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happycc Posted August 23, 2015 Author Share Posted August 23, 2015 I'm doing Big History Project. My 11yrs and 13 yrs old love it. For my younger one MysteryScience.com. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmichigan Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I'm doing Big History Project. My 11yrs and 13 yrs old love it. For my younger one MysteryScience.com. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Thank you for letting me know about MysteryScience.com. That might be the answer I need for my 5th grader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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