Science recommendations 10, 8, 5 year old

The Apologia creation series by Jeannie Fulbright is hit and miss for most people – some love it, some hate it.  I started out hating her chatty conversation and busy pages with HUGE projects  I also don’t like how often she uses the name of God….yes, I agree He created the world and He is God….we just try to reverence his name in our home by not using His name all the time, in every sentence or paragraph.  Then I tolerated it.  Now we really like it.  We also really like Real Science 4 Kids – rather CM-friendly but not creation based.  In fact, it’s very neutral on the subject, which I love.  The author herself is a Christian but wrote the books without any reference to age of the earth or specific beliefs so anybody can use them.  They are clear, interesting and very well done.  We add in lots of additional living books to make it even more CM-friendly, and to make it last longer.

Several ladies here like the God’s Design series from Answers in Genesis.  We’ll be trying that with our older boys as soon as we finish the Apologia series.

You can also just take a topic and read lots of living books, watch some movies, do a few experiments, etc.

Queenybell, when you say ‘God’s creation’ do you mean ‘Considering God’s Creation’? I highly recommend that for user friendliness, CM style, kid-friendlimess and scope and sequence.

I know that this is a long-shot, but there’s one called Good Science, written a number of years ago by Richard Bliss from the Institute of Creation Research. They have a K-3 curriculum and a 4-6 curriculum. My mom used it for my brother (wiggly kid, loved science), and it was great. It has hands-on experiments, asks the kids a lot of open ended questions to get them thinking during the process, etc. She’s passing it on to me to use with DD.

You can see a copy of each of the workbooks on Rainbow Resource, which they are selling for $5 each there. (If you have three kids working on it together, it would be a good price.) By clicking on the picture of the item, you can search inside, and the table of contents will give you an idea of its scope and sequence. The book can be purchased second hand through Alibris, or if you google it, I think there are a few places that still sell it new.

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