Description
Apologia’s online homeschool Physical Science course provides students with self-directed learning tools to ensure they thrive and master the concepts of physical science throughout this course.
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Try a free demo of Exploring Creation with Physical Science, 4th Edition, which features Module 1 as a test drive! The demo has no time limit and includes all the features found in the paid course.
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One-Year Access
Students will receive access to the self-paced version of Exploring Creation with Physical Science, 4th Edition, for 1 year from the date of purchase. They will complete the course via the Canvas learning platform.
What’s Included?
This online course includes the following:
- Digital Textbook – Students receive access to a digital version of the textbook Exploring Creation with Physical Science, 4th Edition.
- Audiobook – An audio narration of the textbook enhances your students’ reading experience and benefits auditory learners or students with reading difficulties.
- Video Lessons – Instructor Sherri Seligson provides video lessons throughout each module to strengthen students’ understanding of the course concepts.
- Hands-on Experiments – Easy-to-do, at-home experiments are featured via video instruction to help students conduct hands-on experiments independently.
- Review Questions and Answers – Each module includes independent review questions and answers and a study guide 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. AutoGrade+ can also be purchased separately for an additional student if needed.
NOTE: The online course does not include the student notebook. It is highly recommended that you add it to your self-paced set.
Course Overview
In Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Physical Science, 4th Edition, students will better understand the world surrounding them to appreciate the real-world relevance of scientific inquiry and the beauty of creation.
All Apologia courses are written directly to the student, making even complex topics accessible and easily understood.
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
- Scientific Research
Engaging Video Lessons
Each section of the textbook features engaging videos to help your student better absorb the information presented in the text. Instructor Sherri Seligson uses visual animations and on-location video clips to explain more complicated concepts in a three-dimensional, interactive way.
We’ve also included video demonstrations of all the experiments so your students can easily set up experiments at home.
Hands-on Experiments
Throughout this homeschool course, your student will connect video lesson instruction with hands-on experiments for maximum learning. Experiments utilize easy-to-obtain household items.
Automatically Graded Tests
The tests for the self-paced version of this course have been exclusively designed with automatic grading. After completing a test, students receive immediate results and explanations for incorrect answers so they can re-review concepts as needed. They may repeat the test a second time to ensure they’ve understood all the material. The higher score of the two attempts will be recorded as the test grade.
Student Notebook
The student notebook for Exploring Creation with Physical Science, 4th Edition, is highly recommended. It is designed to help students foster the independence, organization, and preparation they will need to thrive academically.
The textbook references the notebook throughout and directs students to complete the guided note-taking prompts, add experimental data and observations, and complete the comprehension questions. Your student will need this component to gain the best educational experience.
The student notebook introduces students to several methods for taking notes to build this skill set. Notetaking helps students retain information, review for tests, and record their thoughts as they connect the concepts presented in the textbook with their own ideas. Taking good notes can bridge the gap to mastering a concept.
Students will learn to:
- Outline the main concepts of a passage and list the minor concepts under the main ones.
- Use the author’s style to guide their notes. As the author defines a term, students will include that definition in their notebook.
- Compare and/or contrast two things using diagrams.
- Classify items referenced in the text.
Write notes in their own words instead of copying text word for word. - Look up and define new or unknown words to help build scientific vocabulary and better understand what they’re reading.
Additionally, the student notebook helps students keep a carefully organized, detailed, and complete lab notebook. Students can use the included lab report forms to record the information gathered during experiments and master writing a formal lab report.
The 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 all study questions in the textbook, which serves as a review and prep for the tests.
- Space to record results from hands-on activities
- Lab report forms for each experiment found in the textbook
- Creation Connection pages where students record their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual reactions to what they are learning
Technical Requirements
Before purchasing, please be sure you have read the browser and system requirements for Canvas, the platform on which Apologia’s self-paced courses are built. If you are unsure whether your system meets these requirements, please try the free demo.
Return Policy
Refund requests for an Apologia self-paced course must be sent to customerservice@apologia.com within 30 days of purchase, with only module 1 accessed.