This homeschool biology course is designed to be your high school student’s first science course. As a college-prep high school biology course, it will set the stage for success in their homeschool years in high school, prepare them for college-level courses, and give them an understanding of the basic biological world that surrounds them each day of their lives so that they can appreciate the real-world relevance of scientific inquiry. We believe that students’ educations should prepare them for life, not just an academic year.
Shop Biology CurriculumThis full and complete overview of biology provides students with all they need to know about the biological sciences in preparation for the ACT and any biology courses they may take at the college level. Just some of the topics students will study in this course include cell structure and function, DNA, evolution, plant diversity and reproduction, and invertebrates and chordates.
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Course Details & DemoApologia’s homeschool, high school biology course includes:
Because our texts are written in a conversational tone, the textbook is the expert in interacting with the student. There are no teacher manuals required.
A flexible daily schedule is provided in your student’s notebook so that they can independently work on their science assignments.
A typical week requires studying science about 1 hour a day for 5 days. During this time, students read an assigned portion of their Biology textbook, stopping throughout each section to answer “On Your Own” questions to test their comprehension before moving forward. Students self-check their answers against the detailed answers provided at the end of each module.
The Biology student notebook helps students keep a carefully organized, detailed, and complete lab notebook, recording labs they conducted using proper scientific methodology.
Taking good notes while reading a high school science text can make the difference between mastering a concept and not quite understanding it. Good notes provide the following advantages:
The Biology student notebook is specifically designed to help students be independent and take responsibility for their science studies as they gain and maintain the personal abilities to create structure and logic through note-taking.
Laboratory exercises are conducted throughout each module so that students have a hands-on lab component in their scientific study. These have been designed to work easily in the homeschool environment.
Colleges want to see a lab component on your student’s high school transcript. This isn’t optional, and Apologia’s award-winning homeschool high school biology course is designed to meet this requirement.
Throughout their academic school year, students will conduct controlled experiments where they observe a problem, ask a question, formulate a testable hypothesis, and then conduct the experiment and analyze the data to see if their results support their hypothesis. It involves quantitative data that require measurements. The lab portion of Apologia guides a student through this process.
Additionally, students will conduct descriptive experiments to use their five senses to make qualitative observations and describe what they learn. This includes microscope work, field studies of organisms in their natural habitats, and dissections. Again, our homeschool curriculum was designed with your student’s success in mind, and we guide students through this process with detailed descriptions and photographs.
At the end of each of the 16 modules which take about 2 weeks each to complete, there are Study Guides to help students review their materials before taking their exams. Detailed answers to these questions are provided in the Solutions and Test Manual.
Module exams and quarterly exams, as well as detailed answers, are provided in the Solutions and Test Manual.
Our award-winning, creation-based homeschool science curriculum helps students investigate, discover, recognize, appreciate, discuss, and understand the wonders of Creation.
High school students are equipped for college studies with our academically rigorous curriculum because we aren’t just a textbook. Using a conversational tone, we present challenging science concepts and thought-provoking experiments in an easily navigated, personalized format to help students methodically learn, self-check, and master difficult concepts before moving on.
We keep science relevant. Additional online materials are available through a book extras portal so that students can see science in action.
The Table of Contents for Exploring Creation with Biology is as follows:
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Enrich your high school student’s human body study with the video lessons available for Exploring Creation with Biology. In the videos, Sherri Seligson lectures on each section of the textbook, using visual animations and on-location video clips. This helps students absorb the concepts in a richer and more engaging way, and it encompasses all types of learners. The animations help explain more difficult concepts in a three-dimensional, interactive way rather than in a static, two-dimensional text only. And the medium allows students to review material until they really understand it.
This course includes:
If your homeschool student learns well in an online environment, Apologia’s Live Online Classes may be a good fit. They offer live instruction and the ability to interact with other students as well as ask questions to an instructor. If your student’s schedule doesn’t work with one of the live class options, there are recorded class options that the instructor grades.
This comprehensive homeschool high school biology course was created to accommodate a wide range of student abilities. To ensure every student’s success, Apologia has created materials to meet every student’s learning style.
Auditory Learners: Sometimes, students learn best when they can see and hear what they’re studying. Apologia audiobooks are the complete text of the course read aloud. Students can follow along with the audio while reading their textbooks.
Visual Learners: Sometimes, the subject matter is easier to comprehend when the topic is animated and presented by a knowledgeable instructor. Apologia Video Instructional material enhances the student’s education with more than 20 hours of instruction, including on-location video footage, PowerPoint lectures, animated diagrams of difficult concepts, and video presentations of all experiments.
Social Learners: Some students learn best when they can interact with others in an online setting and ask questions of a live instructor. With Apologia’s Live Online Classes, students can interact in real-time with both their classmates and a professional instructor in a structured, virtual classroom.
Apologia’s high school science courses help your students interactively participate in their educations by fostering their natural inquisitiveness. We recognize that to cultivate curiosity, and we must partner with it. Throughout their high school years, your students will experience personal scientific encounters that turn facts into a meaningful and natural extension of what they already know about their world and their Creator. We thank you for considering Apologia science for your homeschool.
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