For the past few years, my children and I have been blessed to be able to meet two times per month with a few other homeschooling families. We’ve enjoyed participating in art and science together – reinforcing concepts through hands on activities and learning alongside our friends!
This past school year, our homeschool group used Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics for our 3rd – 6th grade children (while our high school aged girls used Apologia Chemistry). We explored topics such as the states and properties of matter, atoms and elements, physical and chemical changes, mixtures, the three laws of motion, different types of energy, magnetism, and simple machines. It was a full year of discovery!
Apologia incorporates a ton of experiments within the text, and we did many of them as we came to them during reading. However, when we met together as a group, we wanted to provide opportunities to review vocabulary, reinforce concepts, and do additional activities that would support what we were all learning at home.
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