Apologia Jr High/HS science

We have used Apologia and Biology 101.  Generally the order in our home is that which is recommended on the website for Apologia.  This year my 9th grader is using Biology 101 as the basis and I’ve added labs, and other experiments (some I’ve taken right out of the Apologia book) as well.

I have done oral narrations, written narration, asked them to do the OYO questions (especially when it involves formulas (think Chemistry)), and have them do the tests as well.  However, I also expect oral narration at the end of quarter, semester, and year end CM “testing”. 

No, he will definitely need the math unless he’s REALLY strong in math… even if he is very strong, it’s really much better to take the math first.

And the order we have done it, currently are doing it, is Biology, Chemistry, Advanced Biology, then Physics depending upon the child.  But that’s just us, and dd is not interested in Physics.

We used the Apologia Science just as you have it written above.  My oldest is doing Physics this year.  We did the books mostly as written.  The student completes the OYO and the Study guide and he does the labs and tests. In the JH years he did some notebooking as well but it wasn’t helpful for him and he felt it was a waste of time so I did not require it in High School. We did very little narration in Science.   But that’s just our family.  I could see narration being good for the student for long term memory.

As far as the math — my son uses Saxon and he began the Advanced Math(this comes after Alg I & II — it is the older edition so the geometry is included throughout all three texts) textbook this year.  I believe he did have some sin,cos,and tangent in the Alg. II book so the math has worked out just fine for him. I don’t know the scope and sequence of MUS but they do use sin,cos, and tan in Physics.

Bookworm, so are the Trig. basics you’d need for Physics actually covered in the first 3 lessons of MUS Trig.?  Thanks!  Gina

Thanks, I’ll file that away in my future planning file:)

Misty, you didn’t fall off the bus.  You are FINE.  You need algebra in 9th grade before Chemistry in 10th.  Pre-algebra in 8th is fine.  My kids are weird.  One of them did Zeta in three months.  <shrug>  I don’t know why!  LOL  My middle son is just really, really fast at math.  He’s only a sophomore and already almost done with pre-calc.  I don’t know what I’m going to even do with him next year because it turned out I’m too dumb to teach the calculus and I don’t want to send him to the community college until 12th.  Sigh.  You ARE doing good, you are just fine, don’t worry, my kids are outliers in some things.