Description
Exploring Creation with Human Chemistry and Physics is a homeschool science curriculum for elementary students. From the laws of motion to electricity and magnetism to the very building blocks of creation, this course is a God-honoring study about some of the most impactful scientific principles that are at work all around us. As your student works through this course, their scientific curiosity and confidence will explode as they engage with the vivid graphics, thought-provoking lessons, and hands-on experiments that will bring theory to life.
Curriculum Overview
Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics course is written in a conversational tone, takes complex and abstract concepts, and makes them approachable for curious young minds. As your student engages with the lessons, projects, and experiments, they will better understand the fascinating world of chemistry and physics, as well as the Master Designer who created it all.
Throughout this course, they’ll study and explore the basic building blocks of creation: atoms and molecules, simple chemicals, the laws of motion, energy in its many forms, and concepts of electricity and magnetism.
This elementary Chemistry and Physics course has 14 lessons that cover the following topics:
- Lesson 1: Chemistry and Physics Matter
- Lesson 2: Moving Matter
- Lesson 3: Building Blocks of Creation
- Lesson 4: Compound Chemistry
- Lesson 5: Multitude of Mixtures
- Lesson 6: Mechanics in Motion
- Lesson 7: Dynamics of Motion
- Lesson 8: Work in the World
- Lesson 9: Sound of Energy
- Lesson 10: Light of the World
- Lesson 11: Thermal Energy
- Lesson 12: Electrifying Our World
- Lesson 13: Mysterious Magnetism
- Lesson 14: Simple Machines
Textbook
Packed with vivid photos and a variety of hands-on activities and experiments that bring chemistry and physics to life, the textbook provides engaging hands-on activities to help solidify the concepts learned.
Some of the activities and experiments your student will complete in this course include making a lava lamp, creating a Periodic Table of Elements out of cookies (yum!), growing crystals, filtering water, creating a soundproof box, making a periscope, building a flashlight and a solar oven, and many more!
All the activities and experiments use easy-to-obtain household items and truly make the lessons come alive!
Notebooking Journal
The Chemistry and Physics Notebooking Journal provides everything your student needs to complete this course. It will serve as your child’s place to complete every assignment.
What’s Inside?
- A Suggested Schedule with a breakdown of exactly what students need to complete each week
- Templates for your student to record what he or she learned in each lesson, using both words and illustrations
- Note-taking pages with prompts to help teach the student how to identify and record important information from the text
- Creative templates for completing the notebooking assignments
- Project Pages and other sheets for your student to use to keep records of experiments, projects, and activities completed throughout the course
- Beautiful, full-color Miniature Books for your student to create, encouraging him or her to record facts and information learned in each lesson
- Helpful and engaging graphics to help your student visualize and understand concepts
- Scripture copywork in both cursive and print
The Benefits of Using a Notebooking Journal
- Facilitates retention and provides documentation of your student’s education. The unique personal written and artistic expressions incorporate both sides of the brain.
- Allows flexibility for multilevel learning. A twelve-year-old student may write an essay and make an elaborate illustration, while a six-year-old may write one sentence with a stick-figure drawing.
- Improves writing skills and penmanship.
- Helps students record experiences, observations, and thoughts.
- Engages students in the scientific process.
- Provides a written history that students can reference as they explore new subject areas.
- Gives your students a place to record and organize experiences and observations.
- Provides a place for students to review their notes, create opinions, and draw conclusions about how their world works.
Audiobook
The audiobook version of the Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics textbook is the perfect accompaniment to the textbook for students who are auditory learners, slow readers, or have learning challenges that make reading difficult.