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    Posted: 24/Apr/2011 at 3:16pm

I am thinking of using Apologia for science this year.  This will be our first year doing HS.  I noticed that Apologia is recommended up to 12 years and then to use a different Apologia set.

I was planning on doing science together for my 8 and 10 year olds.  How would this work as they get older?

Also is there a specific order to using the series?

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Who is recommending that? Because I know many people who happily use Apologia as far as it goes.
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I was looking at the Apologia Exploring Creation Science
set on their website, I found them under 'elementary
school' then they have a link for Middle and High school
with separate books with General science, Physics,
Chemistry, Biology etc...

Someone told me they used the series for all of their
kids, which is what I was planning to do. However, now I
am confused.

thanks for your help

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I'm sorry...I'm confused as to why you're confused. Yes, Apologia goes through high school. You shouldn't have any problems doing that.

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According to the Apologia Web site, the elementary science texts are Astronomy, Botany, and Zoology 1, 2, & 3. I don't know the grade levels; I'm just listing what's there.

The junior high and high school sciences are general science, physical science (these would be 7th and 8th), biology, chemistry, physics, advanced biology, marine biology, advanced chemistry, advanced physics. That's a truckload of science! I would not expect most dc to complete all of those...probably biology, chemistry, physics, and then one more, depending on the children's interests.



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It is possible that you can do science together for quite some time or possibly all the way through. I think it would be hard only if you end up with one child who is really into science to the point that they will be pursuing a science related career and the other child really doesn't like science. I say this because even though there are "typical" sequences of science classes, it is not all sequential as math is; however, some students will pursue more science than other depending on goals.

The one thing to consider is that you need Algebra 1 to happen before Chemistry in high school.
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Thanks for the help. I understood that Apologia goes to
High school age but since I wanted to teach both my 8 year
old and 10 year old together I was confused as to whether
to work through all the elementary books before starting
the other sciences. My concern was whether this was
'holding' my older son back??
But since we will are planning to year round school and
they both love science I think we would probably work
through them quite quickly.
Any advice on doing this would be helpful.
Thanks Again
Lisa
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The rule of thumb is that you work with the older child and let the younger child come along.

I don't think you need to do all of the elementary science. I think you could jump in wherever your older dc is and go from there. It doesn't matter if you don't do the books before; the content will be covered again in high school.
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Originally posted by elliemaejune elliemaejune wrote:

The rule of thumb is that you work with the older child and let the younger child come along.

I don't think you need to do all of the elementary science. I think you could jump in wherever your older dc is and go from there. It doesn't matter if you don't do the books before; the content will be covered again in high school.



What she said!!   Just for a second opinion.
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Thanks for the advice, that makes me feel better. I was
worried that I was going to mess up with one of them if I
did them together since they are different ages (PS going
into 5th and 3rd)
I think I am going to have to just show them the subjects
and see if we can agree on what to cover :)
So when I start the middle school/high school books I
just keep my DD doing the same stuff :)
Sounds so much easier than trying to work through 2
programs (at least until my 2 year old DS is ready for
science)
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Beestar is also great for science. The weekly exercises are full of all real life world problems, challenging stuff to help kids thinking. We have been using it. It helps DD a lot. You guys can also have a try.

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