My DD is finishing up the PLATO middle school classes this year with accompanying textbooks from Glencoe and a slew of other books. I liked the Glencoe books since their websites are very interactive, and their TE's give very good planning and discussion options for me. We just added plenty of labs.
We are looking at Kinetics for physics next year with LabPaq labs to go with it for high school level. We looked at Hewitt as well but my DD chose Kinetics over the weekend because of the interactive program in addition to an optional textbook.
I also wanted hands on labs in addition to the virtual labs to bring it up to our state requirements for high school labs. I am thinking of buying the higher level in both the book and the labs so we will have access to the information for AP as well later on if we so choose, since it is a minimal difference in cost.
I also just posted some references for chemistry. That was the other option for next year, although I am glad my DD picked physics. We will do some general chemistry over the summer for fun instead.
Last edited by melmichigan; 01/18/10 09:36 AM.
