Discovering What God Has Made (Elementary Living Science)

Rated 4.50 out of 5 based on 8 customer ratings

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Enjoy a full year of elementary living science as you and your child discover God’s Creation through living books, experiments, and nature study! (Grades 1–3)

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SKU: VAR-diswghm Category: Science Tag: Grade 3

Product Description

Watch your child’s eyes light up in wonder at the miraculous variety of what God has made!

Discover fascinating general science topics that relate to each day of Creation. The short lessons in this course will be your guide to a full year of elementary living science studies spent discovering light and shadows, water and weather, land and plants, planets and stars, fish and birds, creeping things, land animals, and the human body.

You and your child will read great living science books, conduct simple yet meaningful experiments, enjoy nature study projects, and create a personal Creation notebook centered around the six days of Creation.

Discovering What God Has Made will

Nurture within your child a sense of wonder at God’s Creation,
Cultivate a habit of careful observation that will serve your child well, and
Lay the ground work of personal experience that will support future science studies.

“O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all…” (Psalm 104:24).

Additional Information

Author	Karen Smith
Binding	Stapled
Charter-Friendly	No
Grade	Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
Pages	52

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8 reviews for Discovering What God Has Made (Elementary Living Science)

Rated 5 out of 5
Jessica – June 24, 2021
Is it better to use Discovering What God Has Made with a 1st, 3rd, and 5th grader, or would it be better to use Exploring What God Has Made with these ages? I would like to keep them combined for science if at all possible. Could I use Discovering this year and Exploring the following year? Thank you
- Tamara Bell – June 25, 2021
  Hi Jessica! We do not recommend combining grades 1,3, and 5 for these courses. Our new recommendation for sciences is to group grades 1-3 together and grades 4-6 together. While both of the new science courses are similar, we have written Exploring What God Has Made (grades 4-6) to be a resource to help students begin to gain more independence in their studies and prepare for upper level sciences. While there will be coverage of several of the same topics between both books, they are not arranged the same and the 4th-6th guide is going to have more depth.
Rated 2 out of 5
ketatie – September 22, 2021
Does it mean if I buy this book I will have to buy several others to be able to use it correctly?
- Tamara Bell – September 23, 2021
  In order to utilize Discovering What God Has Made, you will need to borrow from your library or purchase the additional books from the Booklist. At last check, 23 of the scheduled books are currently available at Archive.org.
Rated 5 out of 5
Katie – May 2, 2022
I have been using this guide for the 2021-2022 year, and it has been a blessing and a gift to our family. I love how the lessons are simple and easy to implement. The picture books have been enjoyable for my three children (oldest is 7), and the note-booking prompts have created an adorable journal full of observations! My daughter loves looking back at her work and enjoys showing it to her grandparents. It’s fun to see all that we have learned! This guide took all of the planning off of my plate. I can’t recommend it enough. We have a robust library system in my area, so I had an easy time obtaining the books we needed for the study.
Rated 4 out of 5
Cristina – June 11, 2022
My family has enjoyed many of the quality SCM products and we anxiously waited for the new science series to come out. At first glance, I was disappointed in the number of additional books required. However, currently on archive.org, there are 35 of the books available to borrow. That makes this very doable. We look forward to starting!
Rated 5 out of 5
Sarah – September 21, 2022
I have been using Discovering God with my year 1 and year 2 students. It has been a wonderful curriculum addition! I love that the books are easy to find. I have found most of them at the library. Also, many of them are such good books that there are read alouds on YouTube if I am unable to find one at the library or I cannot get the book in time for a lesson. Any other books I cannot borrow have been affordable to purchase and have enhanced our home library. I would recommend this to anyone who wants their kids to enjoy studying nature and science. It’s also been a joy to teach!
Rated 5 out of 5
Adrianne – October 19, 2022
Our family loves this curriculum! I found other science curriculum to be overwhelming or have lengthy lessons. The pictures books are wonderful and when we cannot find one at the library, it is very easy to swap out for another book on the same topic. My kids are also loving recording in their nature journal and having great discussions about each topic.
Rated 5 out of 5
Ashley – July 17, 2024
This has been one of the most enjoyable science curriculums we have used. I highly recommend it and wish I had used it with my eldest when she was in lower elementary.
This was purchased and used for my Year 1 (1st grade) child but my 4 year old and 11 year old joined us; both were thoroughly engaged with the material and chose to have their own creation notebooks.
My tips for dealing with the sheer amount of books involved in this curriculum is to first utilize your library’s search engine finding which books you have access to through it. Second, the books that are not available through your library, use your Google search engine and find which ones are available for free as either a read aloud or as an internet archive. When you’ve exhausted the free options buy used through curriculum exchange, better world books, and ThriftBooks. Only then did I purchase new. The venture is expensive but the books suggested are well worth it. My children have chosen to reread precious books from this curriculum and I have often thought about purchasing all the suggestions to add to our library as they are fantastic.
We are utilizing Exploring what God has made for our 11 year old this coming year because of the joy she had in exploring this curriculum with her sibling and we are all looking forward to it!
Rated 5 out of 5
Candace – April 28, 2025
Although this curriculum is recommended for grades 1-3, I used Discovering What God Has Made this year with my kindergartener and we both enjoyed it so much! The majority of the books from the Booklist I found very easily at our local library and Hoopla. Any books unavailable at my local library were affordable to purchase. All of the books from the Booklist I found to be very educational and good quality, and I would love to be able to purchase them all eventually for our own home library as I intend to use this curriculum with my other children in the future. I loved the topics covered and thought the entire curriculum was very well thought out and easy to implement. Overall, I would definitely recommend this curriculum for any early elementary child and plan on purchasing Exploring What God Has Made to use in a few years.