This semester long curriculum package includes hardcover textbook, softcover lab notebook, softcover teacher manual, and lesson plans in PDF format. The hardcover textbook provides bigger font and colorful illustrations throughout the text. The consumable lab notebook contains all the experiments. Guidance for the experiments is in the teacher manual. Lesson plans, a 20-page downloadable PDF, allow you to create a schedule that works best for your family.
This bundle introduces students in grades K-4 to geology concepts such as rocks, minerals, soils, the atmosphere, the biosphere, the magnetosphere, volcanoes and earthquakes, and Earth as a system. Students will explore volcanoes, the weather, using tools, how to observe geological features, how to test for minerals, the interacting systems that make up Earth, and more.
This bundle includes three books plus a digital lesson plan:
- A full-color Student Textbook (114 pages) that your child reads to learn one or more core disciplines.
- A Laboratory Notebook (126 pages) that guides your child through real data-driven, hands-on experiments.
- A Teacher's Manual (54 pages) that contains information about how to set up the laboratory experiments and lists the materials needed.
- A Lesson Plan that helps you create the schedule that works for you.
This package includes the following items:
Twelve chapters covering the history of geology and modern geology, the tools of geology, rocks and minerals, dirt, characteristics and layers of earth, volcanoes, earthquakes, Geosphere, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere and the water cycle, Biosphere, earth cycles and the sun, Magnetosphere and the earth's balance. Lab activities use easily found items such as dirt, mud, clay, iron filings, magnets, hammers, pebbles, seeds, etc. Contact us for full listing.
My kids are interested in earth sciences and this seems like a good one to start with.
Loved our Focus on Biology last year!
My son is wanting to cover Geology and this seems to really fit his wishes.
We have completed Chemistry, Biology, and Physics in this series and find it to be a good science curriculum for us.