Apologia Physical Science — Red Wagon or something else?

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  • June 24, 2013 at 11:58 am
    jeaninpa
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    We’ll be doing Apologia Physical Science this next school year.  It’s been difficult for me to keep up with helping my older children with science, so I’m looking for options to keep them on track and help them learn.  I’m considering using the Red Wagon tutorial.  Any experience with that?  Any other suggestions?  Thanks.

    June 24, 2013 at 12:04 pm
    missceegee
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    I’ve no experience, but can say I was impressed with Mr. Rosenoff and bought the General Science DVD to help my daughter next year. I opted for the DVD so we aren’t tied to his online class schedule and I can handle grading and such. The DVD and student notebook will be helpful, I think. Also, I know that Mr. Rosenoff was highly recommended by Dr. Wile who wrote the Apologia books.

    June 24, 2013 at 12:25 pm
    houseofchaos
    Participant

    My son used Red Wagon Tutorials (dvd) for Physical Science and found it helped a lot.  He has requested it for Biology this year as well.  The teaching Mr. Rosenoff offers is very good.

    July 3, 2013 at 2:30 am
    Carla
    Participant

    We used DIVE science with the Apologia text and were very happy. We have continued with DIVE for biology and chemistry.

    July 10, 2013 at 11:09 am
    jeaninpa
    Participant

    Carla,

    Which DIVE did you use with Physical Science?  

    Jean

     

    July 10, 2013 at 12:59 pm
    Carla
    Participant

    It was this one:

    http://www.diveintomath.com/integrated-physics-and-chemistry-9th-grade/

    July 11, 2013 at 2:17 am
    Rachel White
    Participant

    Re: the Red Wagon, can I purchase the $30.oo tutorial and it be enough. The DVD is too steep for me, but there’s an Individual Module option for $30. Is this enough?

    Thanks

    July 11, 2013 at 6:21 am
    missceegee
    Participant

    Rachel, a module is essentially a chapter in the book. So you’re getting help with only that module, not the full book.

    July 11, 2013 at 12:46 pm
    Rachel White
    Participant

    Thanks, Christie, that’s what I was afraid of, but I thought I’d ask anyway.

    The DIVE cd is a lower cost so maybe I’ll look at that a little more. It’s not absolutely necessary for my son as it may be for my dd in 2 years. She dislikes organized science, she’d just rather do the observational, nature study type all her days.

    July 11, 2013 at 1:25 pm
    Carla
    Participant

    There are some samples of the lectures on the DIVE DVD on their website that you can look at to see if they are what you are looking for.  They aren’t at all flashy, but that is what we like about them.

    July 11, 2013 at 2:40 pm
    my3boys
    Participant

    I think I’m confused.  The link above is for physics/chemistry..is that the right one for the Apologia Physical science??

    July 11, 2013 at 3:35 pm
    Carla
    Participant

    Yes it is 🙂  DIVE is it’s own course that utilizes various textbooks for readings.  Here is the syllubus for the course using the Apologia book:

    https://store-a78f1.mybigcommerce.com/content/syllabi/ApoloPhysSci_2nd.pdf

     

    They also have syllubi available for other texts:

    http://www.diveintomath.com/syllabi/

    July 11, 2013 at 5:24 pm
    my3boys
    Participant

    Thank you.

    July 16, 2013 at 11:42 pm
    missceegee
    Participant

    I finally checked out the Red Wagon dvd course. It looks very good, but I think with the new notebook that includes daily schedule and the supplied links from Apologia that the Red Wagon course on dvd could be overkill. Now, if you were enrolling in the full online class where Mr. R does the grading and testing, then it might be different. I just thought I’d throught this out there fwiw.

    July 17, 2013 at 10:54 am
    jeaninpa
    Participant

    I just purchased the Red Wagon dvd course for Physical Science from Christian Book Distributors for $60 — a huge savings over the $150.  Here’s the link:

    http://www.christianbook.com/fathers-through-physical-science-instructional-version/pd/802013?item_code=WW&netp_id=943199&event=ESRCQ&view=details

    I’ll try to come back and give a review in a few months….

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