{"id":7815,"date":"2015-07-09T22:24:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T04:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happyhomeschooling.com\/?p=7815"},"modified":"2015-07-09T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T04:32:12","slug":"for-kids-who-love-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/for-kids-who-love-space\/","title":{"rendered":"For Kids Who Love Space"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"astronaut-11050_1280\"<\/a>My daughter Louisa\u00a0wanted to study astronomy for science in homeschool. She is 12 years old and has her definite preferences, so I began a search for some resources to help. I discovered Apologia Science books for grades K-6 grade. The chapters are fun to read aloud together, and they have experiments at the end that we had a good time doing. The experiments didn\u2019t use any odd ingredients, so I could really pull them together quickly\u2014I love that!<\/strong><\/p>\n

As part of the course,\u00a0the student develops a Science Notebook that contains their writing \u201cnarrations\u201d of the things they have learned and also illustrations, vocabulary, etc.Louisa is excited about the cool science notebook that she is involved making. With Apologia Astronomy<\/a>, Louisa\u00a0is learning fast, is very interested and is having fun!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a> One of the things I really love about Apologia science books is that I don\u2019t have to always be running interference, and trying to explain our faith in a God who created the universe. That seems to be a dominant problem when using secular science resources. I am always faced with the Big Bang theory, the \u201ctrillions of years old\u201d stuff, and trying to keep faith strong in the face of scientific \u201cproof\u201d that we are all evolved creatures living in an accidental universe. This book is fabulous for giving reasons to support faith in God while teaching science!<\/strong> One of the things we recently learned together was that Venus spins the opposite direction than the other planets in our solar system. The Big Bang theory says a big explosion set the planets all spinning, whirling out the same direction from a central \u201cbang\u201d. If this was so, Venus should also be rotating the same direction. I love learning facts that make Christians not feel so stupid scientifically!<\/p>\n

My only regret is that I didn\u2019t discover the\u00a0Apologia science books<\/a>\u00a0in time to teach\u00a0them all in my homeschool.\u00a0Each book is\u00a0very specific to one field of science:\u00a0 Botany, Zoology, Astronomy, Human Body, Chemistry and Physics…which is unusual\u00a0for children’s science books. Most other elementary science textbooks cover a little bit in\u00a0each<\/em> area of science. But, I like them much\u00a0better this way as we can really delve into each\u00a0subject deeply and satisfy our curiosity thoroughly! There are enough books to do one each year from kindergarten through 6th grade<\/strong>, covering in depth all the fields of science! We loved our “Botany year”. We even dissected tulips, learning each part of the flower…fascinating for me too! These elementary Apologia science books are meant to be used an a family unit study, for kids ages K-6th grade, which I really appreciate. It is so much easier to teach all the kids at once on the same topic, and do the experiments together.<\/p>\n

Another wonderful feature of these books is that they can be easily adapted depending on the age you are teaching. You can buy “notebooking journals” which are companion write-in study notebooks in two different levels of difficulty: normal and \u00a0“junior” (for K to 2nd\u00a0grade). These books can replace the notebook made during each school year and have fun activities to reinforce learning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Excellent science from a Christian perspective!<\/em><\/strong>
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