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Grade K-3
Exploration Education covers all of the standards and benchmarks set by the National Science Education Standards for Physical Science: kindergarten to third grade. The hands-on nature of this curriculum not only gets students excited about the world around them, but also establishes a solid foundation for all future science courses. The kit comes complete with an interactive and engaging CD with 36 lessons, a student activity book, and all necessary materials to complete each project and experiment. Designed for one lesson each week, for thirty-six weeks. Each lesson includes an experiment or activity and takes between 30 and 40 minutes to complete.
Prep time: Low
Teachers Manual: Essential
Technology: Online or CD instruction
Grade K-6
Daily Science consists of colorful workbooks that contain short daily science lessons. They focus on integrating writing into science. This is not a stand-alone curriculum, but is best used as a way to extend science lessons or to check for understanding with writing activities.
Prep Time: Minimal
Teachers Manual: Needed for answer key
Technology: None
Grade K-8
BookShark Levels A through F Science programs have been redesigned for 2021 with NGSS Standards in mind.
Our NEW programs combine BookShark's signature, literature-based approach of learning content with books using the standards-based approach of learning through application. Students read from a collection of science books throughout the week, then apply that knowledge through a weekly experiment. The experiments that the student through the critical thinking process of making predictions, testing, analyzing and the Engineering process.
Grade 1-6
My Pals are Here Science helps young learners acquire deep understanding of scientific concepts while developing essential process skills through a stimulating and friendly approach.
Learning is experiential and deductive as pupils are encouraged to explore and discover scientific knowledge.
Carefully selected visuals and minimal text allow all pupils regardless of language skills to understand scientific concepts, hence building learner confidence.
Concrete examples from everyday life make Science relevant and accessible to the young learners.
With MPH Science, pupils will acquire knowledge, skills, and processes that form the basis for learning at higher levels.
Not aligned with NGSS
Grade K-2
The Science4Us curriculum is a complete, standards-based, core science curriculum that delivers digital science experiences to early elementary students. Science4Us provides foundational science knowledge in a way that truly engages the learner.
The mission of Science4Us is to provide a solid foundation of fundamental science concepts for students in their formative years, on which a deep understanding and interest in science can be built. The Science4Us curriculum includes pedagogical and content training for teachers, embedded and on-demand, that does not require a large time commitment.
Aligned with NGSS
Grade K-8
The Focus on Elementary Real Science 4 Kids curriculum was developed by a homeschool mom who also has a PhD in biophysical chemistry. Dr. Keller’s goal was to ensure that kids make sense of science, find it fun to learn, and make it user-friendly for parents without her science background.
Content is challenging.
Prep Time: Moderate to high
Teachers Manual: Essential
Technology: Online edition available
Grade K-5
Exploring the Building Blocks of Science is the latest offering from Rebecca Keller, PhD. This curriculum joins the other bestseller from Gravitas Publications & Real Science-4-Kids: Focus On. It's a yearlong graded program. Features:
- 5 core science subjects: chemistry, biology, physics, geology, and astronomy
- 22 chapters in each Student Textbook
- Information increases in depth and complexity as level increases.
Grade 2-6
With Science in a Nutshell, your student can explore and discover science concepts and processes through inquiry and hands-on learning. Fun, meaningful activities for student-directed individual or small-group learning. Boxed sets include 8-12 activities based around a specific science topic.
*Curriculum can be ordered for individual student, however experiment kits are packaged for an entire classroom.
Supplemental Only
Elemental Science offers easy-to-use homeschool science plans written by an author with a strong background in science and teaching. Offers multiple series for teaching science from classical to lapbooks to adventure-style science. All of these programs include the three keys to teaching science, so you can choose what will fit your unique teaching style.