Two Apologia Sciences Simulaneously?

[jeh]

I am planning for my 8th grader to take Apologia Physical Science and Biology simultaneously this year, mainly because a biologist friend has offered to teach the biology lab. Has anyone done this or something similar? My son's a very good/quick reader and enjoys science. :001_smile:

[Cedarmom]

Biology has a lot of memory work, I would be afraid he would get bogged down trying to do two. What about just skipping physical science. It is very basic. Or look at the book to see what you have not covered yet and just do those sections. Or do physical science next year.

[Susan C.]

Some curriculums actually do switch the two, doing Biology in 9th, and Physical Science in 10th. I was told not to skip Physical, it is prep for the harder sciences (mostly physics and chemistry).

[jeh]

I really appreciate all the insight you have passed along!

[Carol in Cal.]

Are you familiar with Vocabulary Vine's Science Roots program? It's not very expensive, and it teaches roots used a lot in biology. It might be a good starting point, right now, before your DS gets well into his biology studies.

Also, I would probably look at letting him drop something else, or at least back way off on it, such as foreign language or social studies, during a year in which he completes two full years of science.

[TejasMamacita]

We skipped Apologia Physical Science.

It wasn't much that wasn't already picked up in the elementary sciences or learned later in Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

I'd certainly accept that offer on the Biology if your student is prepared mathematically.

Oh, and there is A LOT of vocabulary in Apologia Biology. It's a full course. I don't know if I'd advocate 2 sciences if that was one of them unless you'd just read through the Physical Science text and only actually WORK the Biology text, you know.

[melissaL]

Oh, and there is A LOT of vocabulary in Apologia Biology. .


that is a nice way of putting it, I think he waffles on a bit to much.:lol:

my 15 year old is doing apologia biology and apologia physics.

[jeh]

that is a nice way of putting it, I think he waffles on a bit to much.:lol:

my 15 year old is doing apologia biology and apologia physics.

...and how's that working for you? I would think that physics would be a lot harder than physical science.

[choirfarm]

My 9th grade boy was sitting beside me and said, "Tell her no way!" when I read your message yesterday. He is also a very bright boy who loves science and math. Apologia Biology was a big step up in work for him as an 8th grader. He thought it was much harder than General Science (6th grade) and Physical ( 7th). He is currently doing Chemistry and loves it. He says it is his favorite science. Probably because it is a lot of math. He said there is no way he could have done both of those sciences at one time. He is a Duke scholar and got state recognized for his ACT scores. So just do Biology.

Christine

[tnmomofboys]

My son has taken both but not the same year. Apologia course are time consuming just to read, answer the on your own questions, and do the study guide. My son likes science, but with his other courses would not be able to do both well.

[JanOH]

For what it's worth, my oldest is doing Apologia Advanced Chemistry and Apologia Physics this year. It seems to be working out fine though we did adjust his schedule from last year, dropping a computer programming course, in order to make time for this situation.

[melissaL]

...and how's that working for you? I would think that physics would be a lot harder than physical science.

my ds15 is a real math / physics guy. He loves the physics .