What order should I do the books in for elementary?
What order should I do the books in for junior and senior high school?
What makes course an honors credit?
Why don’t you sell workbooks, I see them on other sites?
Do you accept/why don’t you accept ESA/ESP/Scholarship orders
I have a question/problem with recorded classes/vimeo/self-paced recorded classes
Can the elementary series/Science in the Atomic Age be modified for high school credit?
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What order should I do the books in for elementary?
- The philosophy is dramatically different between our elementary and secondary series of books. We want you to focus on the fundamentals of reading, writing, and math in the elementary years. Science should never interfere with the time needed for those basic skills. Therefore, our focus is on discovery and observation not on acquiring specific knowledge or a specific skill set. When you reach seventh grade we then focus on science as a required subject in which you must memorize terms, grasp specific concepts, and be able to apply those concepts concretely and abstractly. However, we don’t know what science you’ve done in elementary nor what concepts you’ve covered. So, you don’t have to emerge from sixth grade with specific knowledge.
There is an argument to be made for doing the elementary series in order. However, there are many who have chosen a book covering a time period that particularly interests the student (and parent). We accommodate this by letting you know in the helps & hints book what concepts we expect you to know from a previous book in the series. If we don’t cover it in sufficient depth you can do a quick encyclopedia look up or internet search to bridge the gap. It’s elementary so no one has trouble but we have help resources available if someone needed.
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What order should I do the books in for junior and senior high school?
- You can find information on what order and what prerequisites are needed in our Course Sequencing page.
- What makes a course an honors credit?
- Any of Dr. Wile’s high school credit courses starting with biology are an honors credit on the transcript if these conditions are met:
- The entire book is completed (no skipping sections or chapters).
- All tests are taken closed book and achieve at least an 80 overall grade per the methodology in the introduction to the answer key.
- All experiments are performed and documented in a laboratory notebook (doesn’t have to be a formal report for each experiment, just documentation as outlined in the introduction to the textbook).
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Why don’t you sell workbooks, I see them on other sites?
- Our preference is for each child to have their own blank, lined, spiralbound notebook for each textbook. This notebook would be used to record study notes as they’re reading/doing activities, copy any questions asked and their answers (lesson review, comprehension checks, chapter review, and practice problems). Copying a question causes the brain to store information in a more effective manner as well as requiring the student to think about the question as they’re copying it prior to answering. A blank notebook allows them the freedom to write as much or as little as they want (or make a drawing as big or as little as they want) rather than being constrained by a preprinted box or number of lines or feeling inadequate because they didn’t use all the space available.
However, if you prefer the preprinted notebook experience you may download them under the product resources link on the product resources page, at our Product Resources page, or purchase preprinted spiral bound products from our resellers on the Where to Buy page.
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Do you accept/why don’t you accept ESA/ESP/Scholarship orders
- Due to the staff and software requirements government entities require coupled with the percentage the government vendors administering the programs take we are unable to participate in these programs and still keep our low prices. We can’t win the argument with ourselves that everyone should pay more so those getting government funding can pay less. However, we do try to make it so you can get reimbursement from your funding source by having a free product you can add to your cart to provide the student information most of them require. You might also consider what using government funds can mean for the future of your homeschool
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Can the elementary series/Science in the Atomic Age be modified for high school credit?
- These materials would not be considered eligible for a high school credit regardless of modifications made. However, you are in charge of your child’s education, so in the end, you determine what is right for your child. If you think it is appropriate for high school credit for your child, then count it as such. We wouldn’t know what to modify to it to make it high school, since the credit isn’t just about volume of material, it is also about the rigor with which the material is covered.
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