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Hi All,
Quick question for those savvy homeschooling folks out there. I am looking for a science text or course for a very advanced 8th grader. She's already completed one year of homeschooling and has done very well but the area that we struggled the most with last year was finding a science course that is interesting and challenging. I am willing to spend money on it, but of course free/cheap resources are nice too 
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks!
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We use the Apologia Science series here. My daughter took herself through Biology with the help of DIVE Biology and Red Wagon tutorial CD, both use Apologia biology book as well. Chemistry she took on-line with Veritas Press Scholars Academy. Very good class, accredited, weighted honors class, teacher is PHD scientist,tons of math incorporated in homework. This year as a sophomore she will take physics on-line with Veritas Press, which utilizes the Apologia Physics book.
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burbuja0512 Wrote:Hi All,
Quick question for those savvy homeschooling folks out there. I am looking for a science text or course for a very advanced 8th grader. She's already completed one year of homeschooling and has done very well but the area that we struggled the most with last year was finding a science course that is interesting and challenging. I am willing to spend money on it, but of course free/cheap resources are nice too
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks!
Holy cow I have so much for you. We are having an open house in 2 hours- I shouldn't be online. Can you facebook PM me and I'll send you links later this week? Free. My favorite word
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I'm just wondering, do you have materials for biology/chemistry labs, or physics projects? Those were always the best days, doing experiments/dissections/projects were the highlight of my week, lol. I hope you can find a way to involve some experiments and real-world applications outside of the textbook!
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As a former budding science teacher I found this website had some interesting info and stuff at their store. National Science Teachers Association - Science & Education Resource
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Burbuja,
Please forgive me for hijacking, but I wanted to respond to a PM from Linda. (Her account is still bouncing back messages saying it's not accepting messages.) Linda, thank you so much. My PM was more elaborate, but that's the bottom line. Thank you.
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Thank you all for taking the time to reply! Jennifer - sent you a PM on FB
I need to have a lot of options for DD as she learns very quickly and is easily bored... of course if things are too tough, she whines and gets very mad at me, so it's a tough balance!
@0E800_85 - this is a good question. I don't have a long list of ideas for science and real world work, lol there is a reason that I am a business major! DD wants to be an engineer so I just need to figure out what can best support her. I haven't yet gone through all the links on this thread, but once I read through all of them, I'll have a few more ideas and hopefully some solutions.
Thanks all! As usual, you guys have great info!!!
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one more
not science, but computer science (there is a "lab")
its really good
go here
This is CS50 OpenCourseWare
^ this is Harvard University's Introduction to Computer Science class
now
select the Lectures tab
then Week 0
then Videos
watch the Wednesday and Friday videos
Then click on the Problem Sets tab (this is the first homework)
Problem Set 0
Standard Edition
Walkthrough
Video
Your daughter should be able to handle those videos and problems easily (they really are the easy stuff)
even though this course is the official course at Harvard, they recorded the class and put it on the web so all can watch it for free
(the difference is you just do the homework on your own instead of turning it in for a grade -- if you want a grade, then pay the $3000 for the course)
the first homework problem is to download an interactive programming tool from MIT and start writing computer programs
you can write little games and all kinds of interesting stuff
the 3 videos I recommended teach you how to use the tool and how to write the program
The later videos get MUCH more difficult so I wouldn't recommend your daughter continue on further with that course yet
I suggest that after doing those 3 videos she switch to this course
Understanding Computers and the Internet / OpenCourseWare
^ this is the course for adults who need to learn "just enough" about computers so they can follow a technical conversation, compare and buy computers intelligently and understand things they hear in the news
it is really good, it introduces hardware, security, the internet and even a little programming
only after completing this 2nd course would I suggest going back to the first one
yeah, I'd recommend these programming courses over everything else
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