Science in the Beginning by Jay Wile or other Days of Creation science

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  • July 13, 2014 at 11:34 pm
    Wings2fly
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    Since we are doing Ancient History this year, we will be covering Creation Week in Genesis. I would like to go through all of the science topics, but with some depth, in the next four years. Could Dr. Wile’s text be used as a family spine for 2 years, adding in age-appropriate living books and nature study? Could his books be read independently by a 5th grader? I see from the TOC that there are 90 lessons. How long does each lesson take?

    Any other science suggestions for middle school?

    July 14, 2014 at 4:27 pm
    andream
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    Bumping this for you. I was looking at this program a few weeks ago for our future science studies. I’ll be interested to hear any responses.

    Have you used 106 days of creation from SCM? I haven’t, but was wondering if you could take some of the living book suggestions from there and add it to Dr. wiles text if desired.

    July 14, 2014 at 5:23 pm
    suzukimom
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    I would say a 5th grader could read them independently… the science demos would need supervision (varying amounts).

    It is designed to be done as a family (elementary)….

    I think about 20-30 mins generally….

    July 14, 2014 at 5:43 pm
    Wings2fly
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    There are 90 lessons.  So if it were stretched to 2 1/2 years, could we do one lesson per week of this and add in living science books on the related topic for each student to read independently?  Are the activities/experiments done the same day as one lesson and in 30 min. or less?  Would that a good way to study all the areas of science?  Thanks.

    July 14, 2014 at 6:11 pm
    Wings2fly
    Participant

    suzukimom, what did you think of the activities and experiments?

    July 14, 2014 at 6:50 pm
    suzukimom
    Participant

    Which book are you looking at?

     

    Science in the Beginning, or Science in the Ancient World ?

     

    Activities/Experiments are pretty short and are well designed.     Here are a couple he has put online…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uev7sRJAoVw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZSrv2Us2X8

     

    Once setup most only take a couple of minutes to do.

    Then there is a reading explaining what happened.  I like that the experiment/demo is done BEFORE the student has learned what should happen.

    Then there is a journalling exercise (based on different difficulties) – the time that takes may depend on the child…..

     

    July 14, 2014 at 6:52 pm
    suzukimom
    Participant

    Another experiment   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYjbaAJNGhA

    July 14, 2014 at 7:09 pm
    andream
    Participant

    Thanks for the links on experiments, suzukimom. That was helpful.

    July 14, 2014 at 7:29 pm
    suzukimom
    Participant

    Sample lessons on the publisher’s site….   https://www.bereanbuilders.com/mkt/res/samp/9780989042406samp.pdf

    July 18, 2014 at 8:05 pm
    Wings2fly
    Participant

    I am really not sure which of Jay Wile’s books to use.  I was wanting to cover all science topics.  But the Science in the Ancient World could be done in 2 years with Ancient history one year and Middle ages (module 4) the next year.  I think I would like the activities and experiments included and that they introduce the lesson.  Thanks for sharing the links, suzukimom.  Do you think it would be easy to add in age-appropriate living books for independent reading and doing 1-2 lessons per week of Jay Wile books as a family?

    July 18, 2014 at 8:33 pm
    suzukimom
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    There are more books coming in the series too.

    I’d say doing lessons 2x a week – to do it in 1 year – as a family, and adding in a few independent living books would work really well.

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