Love all this info!! Great ideas. We tried using this curriculum last year and gave up. This year we are using BYL level 3 which includes some light chemistry-you’ve given me some great ideas about how to go back and use this curriculum to beef it up. I wonder if the booklist for BYL 3 might be helpful for you? I haven’t gotten very far yet but we did really like How To Think Like A Scientist, which is all about the scientific method. Looking forward to your updates!
Oh, I'll have to check out that book and the BYL level 3 booklist. Thank you! I really want to like the RSO curriculums, but have struggled in the past too, so hopefully we can make this work!
I am also going to use RSO Chemistry this year with my 2nd and 5th graders. I was thinking of also using Science Mom along side. She has the kids make trading cards for each element - might be more fun than making an element book.
I completely understand! I have actually skipped most of the labs... I have done a few, but they can be a lot, and I feel like we are still learning the material without them. Finding secular homeschool science curriculum is definitely tricky.
Love all this info!! Great ideas. We tried using this curriculum last year and gave up. This year we are using BYL level 3 which includes some light chemistry-you’ve given me some great ideas about how to go back and use this curriculum to beef it up. I wonder if the booklist for BYL 3 might be helpful for you? I haven’t gotten very far yet but we did really like How To Think Like A Scientist, which is all about the scientific method. Looking forward to your updates!
Oh, I'll have to check out that book and the BYL level 3 booklist. Thank you! I really want to like the RSO curriculums, but have struggled in the past too, so hopefully we can make this work!
I am also going to use RSO Chemistry this year with my 2nd and 5th graders. I was thinking of also using Science Mom along side. She has the kids make trading cards for each element - might be more fun than making an element book.
Oh, that's a really good idea. Thanks! I hope you all have fun!
I think I’m going to have them (3rd &5th also) make a power point for all of the elements. Maybe a week of lessons on power point before.
That's a great idea! And they get an additional skill in the process! Homeschool parents are brilliant! ;)
The amount of labs scare me. I don't know if I will be able to run this. I'm tired of searching for a secular science.
I completely understand! I have actually skipped most of the labs... I have done a few, but they can be a lot, and I feel like we are still learning the material without them. Finding secular homeschool science curriculum is definitely tricky.