We used General Science this year and it’s going well. I will say that I could not just hand the book to my son and he do it alone. He loves science but he had trouble in the beginning. Some of the vocabulary the author uses he struggled with. But now he’s understanding more than I do. (I’m not a science person either).
The experiments are really fun. He could probably do them alone but we usually do them together. We have a lab notebook he writes the experiment in and what he learned. We bought a science kit from homesciencetools.com. It had just about everything we needed to do the experiments. It didn’t include your common household items. It was well worth the money so I didn’t have to run around town trying to find everything.
Also we haven’t done every experiment. There were days we just couldn’t do it but we would read the results and talk about it to make sure he understood. For the most part, the experiments are very enjoyable and not too difficult to do.
I will say I won’t be using this for my daughter. We’ve been using Abeka this year (6th grade) and she is really enjoying it and learning alot so we’re sticking with it. She’s not a big science person and I feel Apologia might not suit her. I personally like Abeka. I like the way it’s written and it has nice illustrations. There are a few experiments scattered throughout but we just read about them.
This is way more info than you probably need but I hope it helps!
Susan
