Matter, mechanics, energy, magnetism and more make up this wonderful course in God's universe and the laws that govern it.
Now you can teach the whole family, all ages, at the same time in a wonderful hands-on science course with this series of Christian classical science lesson books written in a friendly conversational tone. Each volume contains well-organized and easy-to-follow lessons, detailed realistic diagram and illustration pages to color, experiments, hands-on activities, review sheets, memorization lists, vocabulary, scriptures and suggested field trips. Designed to be used twice a week for ages 8 to 14 years. Excellent! Paperback, approx. 300 pages.
Introduce your children to the fun of science with this happy book by bestselling author Janice Van Cleave. Contains 50 simple, fun experiments each in physical science, nature, bugs and human body (200 total experiments). Each easy experiment includes drawings, a list of easy around-the-house materials and simple instructions. Find out why your hair doesn't hurt when it gets cut, why your fingertips have ridges, why you can see your breath when it is cold, and more. A good science curriculum for young ones! Paperback, 211 pages, for children 4 to 7 years old.
Janice Van Cleave Science for Every Kid - 101 Easy Experiments
Put some zest in your science studies! The beauty of these excellent books by Janice VanCleave is that they focus on just one field of science and present easy-to-do experiments from common household materials that prove a scientific point. Explanations are included as to why the experiments work. 101 experiments per book are illustrated with black-and-white drawings. Paperback, 224 pages, for ages 8 and up.
Family Science: Activities, Projects and Games that Get Everyone Excited About Science! 15% Off
Why should kids have all the fun? More than 200 safe, easy science activities are just waiting for you to dive into in the fields of Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science and Physics. Tackle investigations, experiments, expeditions, and competitions guaranteed to get your family's creative juices flowing! You'll be able to help your kids learn how to apply scientific concepts to real-life situations. Uses everyday household items so you can get started right away. Grow a crystal garden, sail a baking soda boat, blow super soap bubbles, whip up matter that is both a liquid and a solid, launch a spaghetti rocket, create paint like the masters, and much more. Big paperback, 282 pages.
Apologia General Science 2nd Edition (Grade 7) 14% Off
General Science is for the Jr. High years and introduces the scientific method, experiments, simple machines, archaeology, geology, paleontology, biology, human anatomy, and physiology. Lab experiments use just household items.
Even if you don't feel confident in teaching science to your children, you will find the help you need in these books designed especially for homeschoolers. Written by a former university professor who is Christian, these textbooks are presented in conversational style, as if the author is having a good talk with the reader. Concepts are easy to understand, and good experiments can easily be performed at home. Each course comes as a 2-book set: the hardcover textbook and a paperback solutions/test manual. These are the bestselling science books among homeschoolers!
Companion CD available. Each course has 12-16 modules, which can be paced for 2 weeks each, for a complete school year's study. The curriculum is backed by free question/answer support in case you need tutoring. The Companion CD has narrations, video segments, and animations to enrich the textbook course.
Physical Science covers weather, the atmosphere, structure of the earth, motion, Newton's laws, gravity, and physics. Explores myths created by environmentalists (which I find necessary and much appreciated!). Hands-on experiments use household supplies.
Even if you don't feel confident in teaching science to your children, you will find the help you need in these books designed especially for homeschoolers. Written by a former university professor who is Christian, these textbooks are presented in conversational style, as if the author is having a good talk with the reader. Concepts are easy to understand, and good experiments can easily be performed at home. Each course comes as a 2-book set: the hardcover textbook and a paperback solutions/test manual. These are the bestselling science books among homeschoolers!
Companion CD available. Each course has 12-16 modules, which can be paced for 2 weeks each, for a complete school year's study. The curriculum is backed by free question/answer support in case you need tutoring. The Companion CD has narrations, video segments, and animations to enrich the textbook course.
Physics provides a detailed introduction to the methods and concepts of general physics. Heavily emphasizing vector analysis, this text is ideal preparation for a university-level physics course. Covers one and two-dimensional motion, Newton's laws and their application, gravity, work and energy, momentum, periodic motion, waves, optics, electrostatics, electrodynamics, electrical circuits and magnetism. Advanced Physics must be proceeded by a 1st-year physics course, and fills-the-gaps to make an equivalent of a 1st-year physics chemistry course. Must have taken a trigonometry math course.
Even if you don't feel confident in teaching science to your children, you will find the help you need in these books designed especially for homeschoolers. Written by a former university professor who is Christian, these textbooks are presented in conversational style, as if the author is having a good talk with the reader. Concepts are easy to understand, and good experiments can easily be performed at home. Each course comes as a 2-book set: the hardcover textbook and a paperback solutions/test manual. These are the bestselling science books among homeschoolers!
Companion CD available. Each course has 12-16 modules, which can be paced for 2 weeks each, for a complete school year's study. The curriculum is backed by free question/answer support in case you need tutoring. The Companion CD has narrations, video segments, and animations to enrich the textbook course.
Apologia Advanced Physics in Creation (AP Course, Grade 12) 14% Off
Physics Advanced Placement course is equal to one year of a University Physics course. Covers: kinematics, dynamics, rotational motion, gravity, oscillations, waves, optics, thermal physics, electrical forces, electrical potential, DC circuits, magnetic forces, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. Advanced Physics: must have completed 1st year Physics and Trigonometry.
Learn the how, why, where, when of such inventions such as computers, dvd's, cameras, vehicles, spacecraft, satellites, bombs, submarines, digital clocks, household appliances, medical instruments, looms, steam power, nuclear power, skyscrapers, farm machines and much more! Color photo illustrations on every page. A very cool "how does it work?" book! Hardcover, 224 pages.
My children get so absorbed and intrigued with these fun hands-on science lessons that they never want to stop. Specifically created for homeschool use, each kit contains all the materials you will need for every project, plus a 100+ page write-in lesson pack (reproducible), a parent's guide to help you explain your children's explorations, an answer key, plus all the materials needed to do the projects. This is instant—no parent preparation! Another great thing about these fine science kits is that they hold the interest of an 8th grader just as easily as a 1st grader, so you can teach science to all your children at once. If you do science once a week, these large kits include enough for one school year's worth of hands-on science lessons. I like to expand the topic into a unit study with library books. Science is fun!
Kit 1: Astronomy Adventure will lead your family through discovery of the night sky and the solar system. You even get to make artificial gravity! Includes a pair of sturdy binoculars too.
Discovering Birds combines lessons on observing birds with investigations into how birds fly and how they see. You'll make a bird feeder and a real working pen from a feather, plus more. Comes with a colorful 32 page photo guide to backyard birds.
The Magnetism Adventure covers magnetism from "opposite poles attract" to mapping magnetic fields, electromagnets and making your own motor. Contains super-strong latch magnets, bar magnets, and even the battery to make your motor run. Included in the kit is enough equipment for two children to work together through the 40 lessons and projects.
Kit 2: Microscopic Explorations
Learn how a microscope works while investigating everything around you, including plants, animals, fungi, protozoa, and more. You even get to watch crystals forming! Comes with an easy-to-use quality pocket microscope and projects to lead you through 14 fascinating lessons. Several children can easily learn at the same time, but I do recommend purchasing an extra pocket microscope or two, as it is such a nifty tool and my children spent a lot of time waiting their turn while their brother or sister "oohed" and "aahed" over what they were discovering with their eye to the microscope. This kit is marvelous!
The Wonders of Light
From mirrors to rainbows, polarization to phosphorescence, this excellent kit will take your children through an adventure in discovering the wonders of light. 16 lessons and materials enough for several children to share.
Discovering Insects has the scoop on bugs without the yuck! Plastic models, bug-eye viewer, and other goodies allow kids to study insects and arachnids indoors, as well as in their natural environment (which would be indoors at my house!). You don't have to touch any bugs if you don't want to. (I'm with you, Mom.) Enough equipment for several children to share in these 12 interesting insect lessons.
You'll find anything you want to know about science in this bestselling volume that covers science topics in encyclopedia fashion. This book is fabulous for teaching science to your 10- to 15-year-old. Conveniently arranged by field of science: Matter, Reactions, Materials, Forces and Energy, Electricity and Magnetism, Sound and Light, Earth, Weather, Space, Living Things, How Living Things Work, and Ecology. Easy to use as a springboard for unit studies.
I use this to teach science, just taking the Index and planning for one topic per science class, supplementing with other resources. Includes more than 100 biographies of scientists and inventors, has a 24-page fact-finder reference section, and more than 18,000 entries! Contains the latest up-to-date information on scientific subjects, from matter to space travel. (As expected, there are some pages on evolution.) Ages 10 years to adult. Paperback, 447 pages, full of color photographs and drawings.
Plug your ears! Announcing: the official manual for real boys (and possibly, their dads)! Build potato cannons, paper match rockets, water blast rockets made from plastic soda pop bottles, Cincinnati fire kites, tennis ball mortars, tabletop catapults, and more dynamite devices. A great step-by-step guide for building 13 awesome ballistic devices using inexpensive household or hardware store materials. Clear instructions and photographs show just what to do, and explain the physics behind each project. Plus, historical spotlights are included on such incredibles as Alfred Nobel, Robert Goddard, Isaac Newton and others. Don't worry, Mom, this book is very, very safe! Paperback, 169 pages.
