HSKLNG Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Just a quick question.... Doing labs by themselves....to catch up with the courses. How many hours of labs will equal a credit or a half credit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in MD Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) We have done lab science for each of our science courses. We usually do what ever is in our text...which is apologia. We usually wind up "doing" lab about every other week for an hour or two....sometime more. So, if apologia has 16 modules per year, that would be 16 lab days for us, maybe one or two more. I checked the TOC for Apologia's texts and there are 37 Bio experiments, 30 Chem exps, 34 physics, 22 adv. Chem, 23 Adv Phy, and 18 in adv bio. Generally we do all the exps in one lab session per module unless it is something that has to sit and cure or grow... Based on all this figuring....I'd say 15-20 hours is plenty....but I really don't think you need to go to that kind of level of calculating it. I'd pick an experiment or two per chapter if you want to be thorough. Some chapters also do not have any labs in apologia, some might have 3 or 4 experiments.... Regarding your question about crediting the labs....we never issued separate credit for labs. All of our science courses were 1 credit including the labs. I am not aware of separate crediting for labs outside of college courses. HTH Edited April 30, 2009 by Sharon in MD Forgot to add something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 ... Regarding your question about crediting the labs....we never issued separate credit for labs. All of our science courses were 1 credit including the labs. I am not aware of separate crediting for labs outside of college courses. I also included lab as part of the one credit science course. (Though admittedly, I have seen some transcripts where a separate partial credit was given for a lab. That just seemed a tad overly generous for my teen's classes.) For Chemistry, my daughter used the Micro-Chem kit. It had 17 labs. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSKLNG Posted April 30, 2009 Author Share Posted April 30, 2009 Thank you ladies.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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