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How to Create a Unit Study Around Apologia Science
Now
that your junior and senior high students are using
those wonderful Apologia science textbooks, what do
you do with your younger ones? Why not do a
unit study based on these textbooks and include them
all? This idea can be adapted to work for both Apologia's Exploring
Creation with Physical Science and Exploring
Creation with General Science.
You
can begin your oldest child in either of these textbooks
as early as 6th grade, doing 1/2 book or more per year.
As you progress through the book, use the ideas below for
your younger children.
DIRECTIONS:
1.
First, read a portion of the textbook during family reading
time. Even if your little one doesn’t understand
everything or appear to being paying attention, he will get
something out of it.
2.
Second, do the lab experiments from each module together as
a family. Everyone will enjoy this.
3.
Third, assign additional reading, worksheets, research, and/or
internet activities to each child according to the child's
ability. See sample unit below for ideas.
4.
For very young children, read one of the reading suggestions
aloud to them. (Do not go into a lot of detail if you are
planning an additional unit on any of these topics.)
5.
Have your 7th & 8th grade student do the "On Your
Own" and "Study Guide" assignments in the textbook
as "home"work.
SAMPLE
UNIT:
This
unit is ©Copyright
2012 by Cindy Downes. All rights reserved. Permission
is given to homeschooling parents to use this unit free
of charge in their own homeschool only. This unit may
not be reprinted in any other form, for any other purpose
(commercial or otherwise) without permission from Cindy
Downes. Contact her at contact@oklahomahomeschool.com.
SUPPLIES
NEEDED FOR SAMPLE UNIT:
You will need:
These
workbooks are for your younger students. Make copies
of the pages you need for each lesson and save the rest
for other projects:
Books:
I have recommended quite a few out of print books here,
but sometimes they are the best choice. Try the link
provided for buying them used or check your library.
They are worth buying for your family library if you
are able. Grade
levels listed indicate interest level, not reading level.
LESSON
PLAN:
Module
1: Atoms , Molecules
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
Module
2: Air
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
VIDEOS:
INTERNET:
ACTIVITIES:
-
Make
a chart showing your observation of the wind for one week.
Write down your observation (ie. can feel wind on face,
leaves rustle) and indicate the Beaufort Wind Scale for
the day (ie: #2).
-
Do
activities on pages 51 - 60 from Learning
About Weather (Scienceworks for Kids
Series).
Recommended for K-3rd.
- Make
a pin wheel from paper, a straight pin, and a pencil. (Skip
if you did #2 above)
Module
3: Atmosphere
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
- Research:
Ionosphere.
- Research:
Sir Edward Victory Appleton.
VIDEOS:
INTERNET:
Module
4: Water
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
Module
5: Hydrosphere
READING
SUGGESTIONS
ACTIVITIES:
-
Research: Evangelista Torricelli (Meteorology, hydrodynamics)
VIDEOS:
INTERNET:
Internet
Quests: Oceans. This is a fun Internet-based project
for primary grades. It is out of print but some copies
can be found on Amazon.
Module
6: Earth
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
- Research:
William Gilbert (terrestrial magnetism, geology)
- Research:
John Milne (seismograph, earthquakes)
- Research:
Friedrich Mohs (hardness scale, minerals, geology)
- Research:
Charles Richter (Richter scale, earthquakes)
- Research:
James Van Allen (Van Allen Belt, radiation)
- Research:
Alfred Wegener (plate tectonics), Abraham Werner (classification
of minerals)
- Cooking:
Make some Edible Rock Recipes,
all ages.
- Complete
worksheets on pages 11-16, 19-20, 25, 35, 42-44, 57-60,
64-69, & 72-80 from Geology,
Grades 1-3.
VIDEOS:
INTERNET:
Module
7: Weather
SUGGESTED
READING:
ACTIVITIES:
VIDEOS:
- Global
Warming:
A Scientific and Biblical Expose of Climate Change--DVD
Module
8: Weather Prediction
SUGGESTED
READING:
ACTIVITIES:
VIDEOS:
Module
9: Physics of Motion
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
-
Research: Archimedes
- Research:
Christiaan Huygens (pendulum clock)
- Complete
worksheets on pages 11-15, 19, 26, 31-32, 40-41, 48,
52-53, 58-61, 65-66, 70, & 73 from Simple
Machines (Scienceworks
for Kids).
VIDEOS:
- Bill
Nye the Science Guy: Simple Machines.
INTERNET:
Module
10: Newton’s Laws
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
-
Research: Sir Isaac Newton (laws of motion)
- Research:
Daniel Bernoulli (Bernoulli’s principle)
- Research:
Robert Boyle (vacuum pump, Boyle’s Law)
- Research:
Gustave Cariolis (kinetic energy)
- Research:
Charles Coulomb (friction)
- Research:
Jacques Charles (Charles’ Law, pressure)
Module
11: Forces in Creation Part I
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
- Complete
worksheets on pages from 10-11, 15-18 Energy,
Grades 1-3 (Scienceworkds
for Kids).
Module
12: Forces in Creation Part II
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
-
Research: Michael Faraday (electromagnetic induction, electrolysis)
-
Research: James Clerk Maxwell (electromagnetic theory of
light, color vision)
- Research:
Andre Ampere (unit of current)
-
Research: Ben Franklin (electricity)
- Research:
Georg Ohm (Ohm’s Law)
- Research:
Alessandro Volta (static electricity)
- Complete
worksheets on pages from 75-80, Energy,
Grades 1-3 (Scienceworkds
for Kids)..
- Complete
worksheets on pages from 19-21, 23-24, 27,36-43, 48,
53, 55-63, 67, Electricity
Thematic Unit.
VIDEOS:
Module
13: Forces in Creation Part III
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
-
1. Research: Enrico Fermi (neutron bombardment of Uranium)
- 2.
Research: Marie Curie (Radium)
- 3.
Research: Robert Oppenheimer (atomic bomb)
- 4.
Research: Henry Cavendish (hydrogen)
- 5.
Research: Dmitri Mendeleyev (chemical elements)
- Complete
worksheets on pages 44-45, 48-51,58-59 from Energy,
Grades 1-3 (Scienceworkds
for Kids)..
VIDEO:
Module
14: Waves and Sound
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
VIDEOS:
INTERNET:
Module
15: Light
READING
SUGGESTIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
-
Research: Thomas Edison (electricity, inventor)
- Research:
Rene Descartes (rainbow formation)
- Complete
worksheets on pages 22-23, 27, 30-31 from Energy,
Grades 1-3 (Scienceworkds
for Kids).
VIDEOS:
INTERNET:
Module
16: Astrophysics
READING
SUGGESTIONS: SPACE
READING
SUGGESTIONS: STARS, METEORS, ETC.
READING
SUGGESTIONS: EARTH, MOON, SUN, SEASONS
READING
SUGGESTIONS: PLANETS
ACTIVITIES:
-
Research: Johann Bayer (star atlas
- Research:
Tycho Brahe (astronomical tables)
- Research:
Copernicus (Heliocentric theory)
- Research:
Galileo (telescope)
- Research:
Edmund Halley (comet)
-
Research: Robert Goddard (rockets)
- Research:
George Hale (telescope)
- Research:
Sir William Herschel (telescope)
- Research:
Edwin Hubble (telescope)
- Research:
Kepler (laws of planetary motion)
- Research:
Sir Isaac Newton (laws of motion, reflecting telescope)
- Research:
Ptolemy (astronomer)
- Research:
Wernher von Braun (rocket engineer)
- Complete
worksheets on pages 10-15, 18-20, 23-25, 28-32, 37-50,
56, 58-66, 7175, 80 from ScienceWorks
for Kids: Exploring Space.
VIDEOS:
INTERNET:
Be
sure to enter these topics on your copy of The
Checklist.
Please
let me know if any of these links do not work. Email:
contact@oklahomahomeschool.com.
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