Apologia Science Review
Apologia Home School Curriculum for Science was a Good Fit for Our Family
Our oldest son used Christian science texts that were designed for classroom instruction. He got through Chemistry because one of the fathers volunteered to teach a small homeschool class.
I read about Apologia when it was newly released (I think it was in 2001). There were testimonies from formerly frustrated students who were enjoying this curriculum. Nathan, our second son, in the 11th grade started with Apologia Exploring Creation with Chemistry. I was amazed that he was able to learn Chemistry on his own by reading the text. He learned it independently and made B's on the tests. If he got stuck on something, he would come talk to me about it, explaining what he knew and what he didn't understand. Inevitably he would figure out enough to go back and do something differently. I didn't teach, I just listened and responded if I knew anything about what he was telling me.
Jay Wile wrote this science series with an informal tone, explaining everything thoroughly. He wrote it as if he was a tutor talking to his student, rather than as if he was a professor lecturing a class. We have since used Apologia General Science, Apologia Physical Science, Apologia Biology and Apologia Chemistry with our children. The books are non-consumable and can thus be used over and over. We highly recommend them.
Apologia has higher level books including Advanced Biology-Fearfully and Wonderfully Made!,a homeschool curriculum for anatomy and physiology.
This course combined with Exploring Creation with Biology , gives the homeschooled student what equals a college biology course. These two courses together cover the entire "advanced placement" (AP) curriculum. A student wanting to take Advanced Biology must first complete a first year Biology course and a first year Chemistry course. For a student that wants to go further with Biology, this advanced Apologia course covers both the anatomy and the physiology of the 11 organ systems of the human body in detail.
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