Description
Exploring Creation with Earth Science is a homeschool science curriculum for elementary students. With the Earth Science Course Set, students explore Earth’s geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere, and discover how these systems work together to support life. Through engaging lessons and meaningful activities, students dig deep and dive in as they interact with the world around them.
Curriculum Overview
We believe that your child’s education is at its best when their learning begins with a spark of curiosity. Through practical concepts and things in their world students will learn and experience that science isn’t just a class–it’s a means for them to discover their world and its Creator!
Your young explorer will begin by learning about the universe, the Earth, and what makes Earth special and capable of sustaining life. Their awareness of the world and its Creator will expand as they learn about the land, locations, atmospheres, and climates of our planet.
This course covers the following topics:
- Lesson 1: The Observable Universe
- Lesson 2: Life in the Habitable Zone
- Lesson 3: Spheres of the Earth
- Lesson 4: Mapping Your World
- Lesson 5: The Geosphere
- Lesson 6: Making and Shaping the Land
- Lesson 7: The Hydrosphere
- Lesson 8: The Atmosphere
- Lesson 9: Climate and Weather
- Lesson 10: Weather Forecasting
- Lesson 11: The Biosphere
- Lesson 12: Cycles of Life
- Lesson 13: Unique Places on Earth
- Lesson 14: God in Creation
Textbook
Packed with vivid photos and graphics that bring Earth Science to life, the textbook provides engaging hands-on activities to help their learning stick.
Students will build a detailed 3D globe with mountain ranges, create expanding universe putty, assemble a galaxy mobile, build a model of the habitable zone, bake edible rocks, and more.
Notebooking Journal
The Earth Science Notebooking Journal provides everything your student needs to complete this study of planet Earth. 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
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.
Activity Videos
Introduce your child to a whole new level of hands-on learning with Apologia’s Elementary Science Activity Videos. Designed as an add-on to our award-winning elementary science series, these engaging videos feature dynamic instructor Ezra, who brings each lesson to life with energy, clarity, and curiosity.
Students will watch Ezra introduce new scientific concepts and demonstrate every experiment and hands-on activity from the textbook—making even complex ideas easy to understand. Whether you’re a brand-new homeschool parent or simply want extra support, these videos help your child see science in action while giving you added confidence and flexibility in your homeschool routine.
Perfect for visual and kinesthetic learners, the Activity Videos enhance comprehension, spark curiosity, and keep kids excited about discovering God’s world. Bring the joy of learning to your home—one experiment at a time.
Audiobook
The audiobook version of the Exploring Creation with Earth Science textbook is the perfect accompaniment to the textbook for students who are auditory learners, slow readers, or have learning challenges that make reading difficult.
