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Simplify Homeschool with Apologia’s Self-Paced Courses

Get Started Today with an Online, Self-Paced Homeschool Course

Apologia is excited to come alongside your family with an online educational tool that integrates seamlessly into your homeschool plan. With our self-paced courses, your middle and high school students can complete their Apologia courses in a flexible learning environment that allows them to work at their own unique pace.

Self-paced, online homeschool courses help build students’ independence, freeing up your teaching time so you can focus on other students or courses in your homeschool.

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Note: We are not a full-service school, so we do not issue transcripts; you are still in control of your homeschool and will issue the transcript for your student.
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“As a student, I found the Apologia Self-Paced course informative, useful, and flexible. It allowed me to stay on my own schedule while still keeping the content and advantage of an online class. Fantastic resource.”

Karsten, Student

Start Your Student’s Self-Paced Learning Experience

Self-paced, online homeschool courses offer a digital version of Apologia’s award-winning curricula.

Self-paced courses include the following:

  • Textbook – Students receive access to a digital version of the textbook for their course.
  • Audiobook – An audio narration of the textbook enhances online reading and is beneficial for auditory learners or students with reading difficulty.
  • Video Lessons – Instructor Sherri Seligson provides video lessons throughout each module to strengthen students’ learning of the concepts presented in the course.
  • *Hands-on Experiments – Easy-to-do, at-home experiments are featured via video lessons to help students conduct hands-on experiments themselves.
  • Review Questions and Answers – Independent review questions and answers and a Study Guide are included in each module to allow students to practice the concepts taught and prepare for end-of-module tests.
  • AutoGrade+ – AutoGrade+ provides dynamic online testing for Apologia courses with multiple attempts, immediate answer feedback, and automatic grade recording.

*for science courses only

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Course Catalog

Self-Paced General Science

Recommended Grade Level: 7th-8th

Students gain a better understanding of the world that surrounds them through this general science course. This course covers a wide variety of branches of science, including astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, earth study, geology, paleontology, and environmental science.

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Self-Paced Physical Science

Recommended Grade Level: 8th-9th

Purposefully created for 8th- or 9th-grade students, Exploring Creation with Physical Science, 4th Edition will lead students to appreciate, understand, and grasp the wonders of God’s creation while exploring chemistry, physics, earth science, and scientific research.

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Self-Paced Physical Science

Self-Paced Biology

Recommended Grade Level: 9th-10th

This 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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Self-Paced Chemistry

Recommended Grade Level: 10th-11th

Our high school chemistry course provides a rigorous foundation in chemistry and prepares students for college-level studies. We present challenging 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. Topics covered in this course include atomic and molecular structure, changes in matter and chemical reactions, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, kinetics, and more.

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Self-Paced Marine Biology

Recommended Grade Level: 10th-12th

Apologia’s Marine Biology course is a rigorous, college-preparatory course for high school students who have completed biology. Covered topics include geography of the oceans, reproduction in the sea, classifying life in the sea, six kingdoms of sea life, vertebrates, invertebrates, marine ecology, and much more.

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Self-Paced Advanced Biology

Recommended Grade Level: 11th-12th

This college-preparatory Advanced Biology course provides an advanced study of both the anatomy and physiology of the human body’s 11 organ systems. This course is recommended for those students who have successfully completed high school biology and chemistry.

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Self-Paced Significant Figures & Precision

Recommended Grade Level: 9th-12th

In this short micro-course, students will learn the proper method of implementing the rules of significant figures for the type of calculations they are asked to perform in math and science courses. This course can be taken concurrently with a chemistry/physics course or even as a primer to enrollment in chemistry or physics.

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Literature Unity Study: The Basket of Flowers

Recommended Grade Level: 6th-9th

The Basket of Flowers Unit Study is one part of a four-part literature course. Students will have access to an audio narration of the novel, video lessons, review questions, automatically graded tests, and optional essay topics. This self-directed Unit Study will provide all the learning tools needed for students to understand and master the rich concepts of the novel.

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Literature Unit Study: A Peep Behind the Scenes

Recommended Grade Level: 6th-9th

A Peep Behind the Scenes Unit Study is one part of a four-part literature course. Students will have access to an audio narration of the novel, video lessons, review questions, automatically graded tests, and optional essay topics. This self-directed Unit Study will provide all the learning tools needed for students to understand and master the rich concepts of the novel.

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Literature Unit Study: The Light in the Robber’s Cave

Recommended Grade Level: 6th-9th

The Light in the Robbers Cave Unit Study is one part of a four-part literature course. Students will have access to an audio narration of the novel, video lessons, review questions, automatically graded tests, and optional essay topics. This self-directed Unit Study will provide all the learning tools needed for students to understand and master the rich concepts of the novel.

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Literature Unit Study: The Giant Killer

Recommended Grade Level: 6th-9th

The Giant Killer Unit Study is one part of a four-part literature course. Students will have access to an audio narration of the novel, video lessons, review questions, automatically graded tests, and optional essay topics. This self-directed Unit Study will provide all the learning tools needed for students to understand and master the rich concepts of the novel.

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Become an Apologia Beta Tester

Would you like to help shape the future of Apologia by providing feedback on upcoming products? Have you ever wished that a product was better tailored to your needs as a homeschool family? Would you and your student be interested in completing developing Apologia curriculum through an exclusive invite-only, early access program?

If you answered yes to all of these questions, we invite you to apply as an Apologia beta tester for our new products.

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