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My son devoured Beast Academy last year. Do you know if there is anything BA style for science?

I'm not sure how Beast Academy works, but the only science curriculum we have found to be absolutely ideal on every level is superchargedscience.com Best of all the kids can do it on their own! It's a monthly subscription that you pay and it's online. SO worth it!

In fact, we have promised Aiden that when he starts working more independently in all other areas and is solid on grade 4 level across all subjects that we will be buying him a full subscription and building a science lab. THAT's how awesome just the free stuff is.

I was curious about your post, since this is definitely something I will have to research in the future. I've noticed that The Well-Trained Mind Board and other homeschool forums and blogs review curriculum. I haven't explored them yet, but it may be useful to you in evaluating science curriculum.

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/468811-supercharged-science-questions/


http://schoolhousereviewcrew.com/supercharged-science-review/

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good reviews all around Like I said it's a great science program

Portia, we are using Apologia also. We are using the Young Explorer Chemistry and Physics. I actually like the experiments in that one. We do at least one every day. I like it because even though she needs me to read it because of its depth, it is written in a way that if I read it, she can understand it. What are you supplementing with?

We tried supercharged science for my DD8, but I found the reading too complicated. I was having to re-explain everything. I think we will do supercharged science with my DD10 next year, if she homeschools. She would be able to handle doing it on her own.

@#!@$!!!!

This is ridiculous. A good science education must cover evolution. I think it's insane to try to pander to the young earth homeschooling set by not covering this.

What is this quote referring to? (I agree with you.)

22B, that quote apparently comes directly from the website. It is visible here:

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/468811-supercharged-science-questions/

I looked at the curriculum and it really looked good, but with a marked emphasis on physical science; life science looked to get short shrift. As it might, if you can't talk about freaking evolution.

I don't know if she discusses the age of the earth and the universe. I looked at the geology samples and she didn't seem to, but it was quite a limited sample. If not, that is absolutely a total killer for me. Come on.

Portia, Thanks. I was wondering about the experiments. I just buy all the materials and we do the book experiments together. This one(Chemistry and Physics) is the first one we are using and she really likes them. She uses the notebook that comes with it to write about all the experiments. Our experiments usually end up with a multitude of offshoot experiments of her own. I like your ideas on the botany etc. and the pea experiment because right now she only wants to learn about chemistry and physics because she likes those types of experiments. I will have to try to find a way to make the life sciences interesting to her in the future. She wants to do something and see something happen.

Thanks for the reference. I see it now.