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WHY WE SWITCHED TO MASTERBOOKS GOD'S DESIGN FOR LIFE SCIENCE CURRICULUM // Detailed Flip Through
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2024
- Hello, friends! Welcome back to my channel One Blessed Mess for this video about why we switched to Masterbooks God's Design for Life as well as a detailed look inside this science curriculum!
If you are new here, hi and welcome! I'm Christie, and I'm a 2nd year homeschooling mom to 5 kids (ages 10, 8, 6, 2, and 2 months!) My husband and I pulled our kids out of public school last year, moved to our new house in the country, and haven't looked back! I love sharing my (authentic + honest) journey with you all, and hope you will join me as we navigate our footing in the world of homeschooling!
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We will probably be using this next year! Thanks for the info. ♥️👍🏻
Yay! You are so welcome!
I am looking at switching our science curriculum as well! Thank you for sharing!
You're welcome! 🤍
Thanks for sharing. I love seeing inside different curriculum.
Me too!!
Thank you so much! Answer to prayer!!! I didn’t realize this was for multiple grades! SO thankful!!! Just had our 4th baby 4 weeks ago and we’re ordering curriculum tonight!!! Getting the rest of Masterbooks living education. 💕💕💕
That is amazing!! Congrats! 🥰
Yes! One of my favorite things about homeschooling is that we are all learning things together. Possibly re-learning for me, but like you said I don't remember haha.
We have the one for Beginners and I'm thinking about pulling it out again. It is super simple and I think the Beginner one is great for the age of my little ones. Thanks for the flip through friend! ❤
Yes!!! The Beginners one looks great for younger kids! 😍
We use this curriculum and are really enjoying it. The Plants section was definitely our favorite. We liked the human body, but the experiments in the plant section were so much more...everything...more entertaining, more educational, more interactive, etc. Overall, we really like this curriculum. Great choice!
That is so good to know!! 💜
I am using the God's Design for Life for Beginners with my 2nd grader. This is our first year homeschooling and I wasn't sure which to start with. I will probably upgrade to the one you have next year.
Lord willing, I’m planning to use this for our 2021-2022 school year!
Yay!! 🙌
Thank you! I use the good and the beautiful but I’ve been interested In this one.
It's so good! 🙌
Thank you for this very informative video on this curriculum, it is very helpful.
I am so glad!!
This was so helpful!
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing this! I am just making my own unit study on the human body for my 1st grader and toddler and we will be doing possibly a space unit and marine biology from the good and the beautiful. But this curriculum does seem amazing!🙌❤
We are really enjoying it!
I love this curriculum. I use this. And it’s so deep. We are doing the chemistry themed one right now.
How neat!!
Love it👍 thank you 😍
I was digging through my curriculum box and girl. I FOUND THIS IN MY STASH! 🤭😂😂😂 My set must be before God's Design joined with Master Books! 🤔 I appreciate this video so much as I can see and compare my set vs the updated set! Love you, girl and appreciate all you share here! ❤
Oooh GIRRRRL!!! 😍😍😍 If you send me some pics of the inside of yours, we can compare!!
We love this curriculum so much! ❤️
It is SO good!! Thank you so much for recommending it to me! 💜💜
Great video 😊!
Looks awesome. I don’t always do science curriculum units in order. I teach creation.
I have mine all printed and just waiting to laminate covers and bind and then we will start 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Yay!! 😍😍
I have this and we are currently in the Human Body unit. I am reading the lessons from Human Body from here instead of the Gather Round teacher guide because GR teacher guide was too much info for my kids. God's Design has been perfect. We are using the activity sheets from GR mostly although we are doing some of the God's Design ones as well! You can do the units out of the order they are in the book so you might want to considering holding off on the plants unit until Spring. There are lots of fun activities that including going out in nature and finding plants/flowers etc to use in the lessons! We love the God's Design series!
I LOVE hearing this!!! We went ahead and started the human body section today instead of plants to hold off until Spring!! Such a great idea!! 💜
@@OneBlessedMess Something else about this curriculum. The blue boxes after the text part of the lessons are for younger kids (all kids) & the green box is an extension to the lesson for older kids, so you don't necessarily need to feel like you have to do the green box since your kids are 4th and under. With my kids being in 5th & 3rd we skip over the green box & just focus on the blue box. :) Also, one more tip! The Answers in Genesis website (not masterbooks) has a FREE download for all of these units. Sometimes we enjoy those worksheets more than the Teacher Guide from Masterbooks.
@@faithfullyinfertile Thank you SO much!!! Great tips!
Nice Info. maam 😊
This looks like such a great curriculum. I see you're continuing with their series this year. Just wondering how long the average science lesson takes?
We are tgatb everything But Master Books is my big #2 bc it's such high quality and has amazing content. You cant go wrong with either. I think it's just a family fit thing.
Absolutely!! 🤍
Thank you for this review. Do you know if MB has videos to go along with this book? I know they have them for some but not all. Just curious if you know. Thank you.
And from what I understand, that green portion of the lessons are for the older grades..sometimes I read them and sometimes I don't. We are using Masterbooks Chemistry right now and it looks the same as this. I usually tear the pages out and make copies.
I just realized this as well!! Thank you!
We are using thus next year. Did you like it?
I just want to point out that that the activity on biogenesis in the first lesson is written for older kids (I think 6-8th graders) and the scavenger hunt is the activity for the younger grades (3-5). Just a bit of info for anyone who may not realize that in watching this video because so many folks think this is too difficult of a curriculum for 3-5th graders. . The activities are color coded based on grade level and you do not have to do both 😅
Yes!! Thank you for pointing this out!
A good tip : Read a paragraph and have your younger child narrate in his/her words so you wont have to repeat yourself. It helps alot. ;)
That is a great tip, thank you!
I know you had said I can use one book for all of my kids, but I'll have a Lowe elementary and two middle schoolers next year. Do I need both teacher guides (beginner snd regular) for worksheets to span these ages?
This looks great! What did you use before this? And have you used TGATB science units before?
We tried Gather Round and TGTB Science but this has been a much better fit!
I’m just at the part in your video where you say you photocopy the worksheets your kids need to use. Yikes! That could get tricky for me. Do you know if there is a website to download the pages from vs copying them from the teachers book? Thanks! From 🇨🇦
What made you decide to switch to this rather than the unit studies?
Are you still using this for science? How did you like it?
Do you have to make copies? Or do you need multiple teacher guides?
I’m debating on TGTB unit studies and this curriculum…
Hi! This looks great and I think I might look into it!! Question: do they add stuff for the 7/8th grades? I have a 5th and 7th grader and I think it might be too easy for my oldest. What do you think? It seems to me that 3-8 grade is quite a span!!
I definitely think it depends on the child! For us, the trade off would be being able to do science as a family vs. my oldest having to do a separate curriculum! I definitely think you could make it work with an 8th grader!
Yes, the green challenge portion is specifically for 7th and 8th grade. I have only my 7th grader do that portion of this curriculum. It works!
Do you think this is enough for your 5th grader? I’m looking at this course for next year. Also, after flipping through the book do you think it’s possible to do the plants last so it will be in the spring?
I absolutely think this is enough for my oldest!! Also, that is a terrific idea! I think we may just switch things around! 🙌
We are switching to homeschool in the middle of the year. My daughter is currently in 2nd grade public school. August she would’ve been enrolling 3rd. Would you recommend this version over the for beginners?
I've never used the Beginners version, but I would say yes as it is geared for K-2. You won't be finishing the book this year, but I feel like it would be ok to use for 3rd as well! ☺
Can I ask what you switched from? I can't remember if I saw that in a previous video- sorry. We tried Elemental Science first at two different levels and I felt it was a bummer- especially for the 7th grader, my husband and I found mistakes and when we contacted the company they said they are revising. Now trying TGTB Geology unit and I am kind of just so-so about it. I think a lot is over myyounger kids heads (1st and 3rd) and my 7th learned it all in public school a year ago. We are first year home schoolers coming from public school so I love to watch your videos, nice to see other newer moms out there.
We switched from The Good and the Beautiful/Gather Round (we were using GR as science unit studies!)
Sarah, what did you end up using?
@@user-vg8ez9cu6u not much really. I have not been impressed with anything. We are secular so it is almost impossible to find a curriculum so this coming year my plan is to do in depth nature/unit studies with my younger girls. My son I may look to outsource in some way. For this year just finishing up with National Geographic documentaries and books. Not great, but its our first year :)
@@sarahbennett7235 check out Making Scientific Connections Through Inquiry. It's open and go. And I heard Bernard Nobel, PhD. the same doctor who created Building Foundations for Scientific Understanding curriculum helped create it. I really, really like the looks of it, but I actually want something Christian-based for science. Might be perfect for you though. Also, check out Real Science-4-Kids. That one is non-religious and looks very comprehensive but still at the level a child can understand.
HTH.
Does it have experiments?
Thank you so much for doing this review! I found this curriculum via just an in depth Google search. My 2nd grader is a science guy so I wanted to get a solid, in depth science curriculum. Bingo! I got all four books + teachers guides and while it was expensive, I love that it will last us for years and I can use it for my two girls as well.
I hope you guys love it!! We are using it this year, too!
@@OneBlessedMess Do you have a recommendation for a good poetry book/curriculum? After my sons 1st grade review, the teacher recommended starting that.
I am having a hard time choosing between this and apologia for my kiddos. They’re the same age range as yours. I have the upmost respect for God’s Design, but I do like the apologia notebooks better based on reviews I’ve seen. Decisions decisions, lol.
I had a hard time with choosing between the two as well! I was told Apologia is a little more advanced and text-dense for younger kids so I went with God's Design (since I have a 1st grader tagging along!)
We switched to Apologia from MB and will be switching back next school year. Apologia is very text heavy and the notebooks weren’t fun. I also don’t like their schedule. My 8 year old asked to switch back, and I’m relieved.
Ugh. Same. I thought I'd made my final decision but I'm not so sure anymore :-/
Question. Will this last a typical school year? How many lessons does it have
This does last a school year! It is broken down into 3 parts with 35 lessons for each section 😊
What Science did you use before. I am wondering if I could use this a unit study format with my 3rd grade, first grade and K? Thanks!
We used The Good and the Beautiful and Gather Round before! You absolutely could use this with those ages! There's a God's Design for Life Beginners edition as well ☺
Thanks! I am going back and forth on what Science to use. We are enjoying TGTB free samples, but also considering God's designs. What made you switch?
Can I use the answers in genesis separate books with the masters books teachers guide and worksheets? If the curriculum is the same?
I don't see why you couldn't! 😊
Thank you
Do you need a separate book for each kid? Or do you only need one for the family?
We just used one for the whole family!
I am researching different science options for my son. This curriculum looks very similar (if not exactly the same as) Answers in Genesis. Do you know if it is the same curriculum (just 1 book instead of 3 smaller ones)?
It is the exact same curriculum, just all 3 books are included in one! ☺
Can I use the answers in genesis separate books and the masters books teachers guide and worksheets?
Your camera movement gave me vertigo. it would be really helpful if you could hold it steady.
We are using thus next year. Did you like it?