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3rd Edition

General Science Student Notebook

$47.00

This student notebook is designed to be used with Apologia’s Exploring Creation with General Science, 3rd Edition textbook. A suggested daily schedule is included in the student notebook, so students easily understand what is expected of them each day. The student notebook will help students improve their writing skills and learn to take notes. 
Recommended Grade Level: 7th-8th grade

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Description

The Exploring Creation with General Science, 3rd Edition, introduces students to several methods for taking notes to build this skill set. At the beginning of each module in their Student Notebooks, students are encouraged to take mindful notes using techniques that expand as the school year progresses, allowing students to develop a unique note taking method that works best for them.

Build Writing Skills

The Student Notebook includes tips for writing good notes and helps them build their writing skills. 

Students will learn to: 

  • Outline main concepts of a passage and list the minor concepts under the main ones.
  • Use the author’s style to guide your notes. If the author defines a term, make sure you include that definition in your notebook.
  • Compare and/or contrast two things using diagrams.
  • Classify items referenced in the text.
  • Write notes in your own words instead of copying text word for word. This helps you as the student make your own connections to the ideas you’re learning. 
  • Look up and define new or unknown words to help your build scientific vocabulary and better understand what you’re reading.

Improve Note Taking

The section in the Student Notebook where notes are recorded was created to give students prompts or questions to lead them to the important information they will read in the student textbook.

Although there is no one right way to take good notes, after trying the techniques in this notebook, students should find the way that works best for them. Then they’ll have a much better handle on all the interesting and amazing things they will learn in General Science this year.

We encourage students to evaluate their note-taking efforts after each exam. Were their notes helpful in the exam? If so, they are capturing important information. If not, they need to pull more information out of the textbook. Don’t worry, as they learn to evaluate and develop their note-taking, we help them there too.

Apologia encourages parents to review their student’s notebook to make sure that the student is properly engaged; however, student notes should never be graded. By the time your student finishes the course, you’ll see highlighting and colored fonts, personal thoughts expanded and explored, and developed strategies on how to personalize, capture, and transform new information into knowledge. 

The General Science Student Notebook Includes:

  • Suggested Daily Schedule
  • Breakdown of daily assignments, detailing exactly what needs to be done each day
  • Note-taking pages which include prompts to help teach the student how to identify and record important information from the text
  • Space to answer the On Your Own questions that are listed in each module which serve as review and prep for the tests.
  • Space to record their results from hands-on activities
  • Creation Connection pages where students record their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual reactions to what they are learning
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10/01/2023
Brianna C.
US US

Experiment supplies hard to find

I love the self paced course. However, it would be really nice if we could buy the non perishable experiment supplies from apologia like sonlight offers. It was frustrating and time consuming trying to find or buy all the supplies. It was also confusing using the notebook with the self paced course because the the daily checklists don’t line up. It’s not clearly laid out how they match up.

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08/29/2023
Becky N.
US US

Audiobook is Great

My son has dyslexia so listening to the chapter is much easier for him. The narrator is wonderful and keeps him engaged. It would be nice to have tracks to help us find where we're at each day. It's set up in modules so I have to write down the time stamp to see where we pick up the next day. But overall, it's a great tool for our family. Recommended to us by another mom.

08/29/2023

Apologia

Hi Becky, We're so glad this resource is working well for your son. We do have an audio track list that may be helpful - https://apologia.com/download/audiobooks/GenSci3_MP3AudioList.pdf.

SW
08/01/2023
Stacie W.
US US

Easy to do & covers all

These studies are fabulous and very comparable to any and all science curriculum. Very well put together, daily lessons, in-depth study for all ages of homeschoolers.

SW
08/01/2023
Stacie W.
US US

Easy to do & covers all

These studies are fabulous and very comparable to any and all science curriculum. Very well put together, daily lessons, in-depth study for all ages of homeschoolers.

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