Biology for a third grader?

[Jolash]

My DS8 will be doing third grade work next year and really REALLY wants to do biology - he wants to dissect a frog and other things. We have a family friend who is the head of the biology dept at a local college and he's let ds come to the lab to help when they are dissecting, but that hasn't cured him! He keeps asking about doing biology next year.

Is there a beginning biology course for a kid as young as 8? I will really need to rely on the TM and course books because I remember very little from my HS biology?

Any suggestions?

Shari

[Lenora in MD]

Real Science 4 Kids has a biology book. I used it with my 8/9 and 10/11 year olds. It is a great program. Hands on experiments with every lesson that really teach the scientific method. There was not a dissection though. Only ten lessons in the book, so you would want to flesh it out with some other things to make it last for the whole year.

[RoughCollie]

We used Real Science 4 Kids biology I in 4th grade.

http://www.gravitaspublications.com

The kids enjoyed it. The course didn't cover dissection, but we had no trouble finding the how-to info on the internet and at the library, and we bought the dead frogs, etc., online at Carolina Biological Supply Company.

http://www.carolina.com/

[mcconnellboys]

You might look at the Prentice Hall series if you really want to use a text instead of just reading about animals and doing classification work, etc. You can get a large variety of dissection specimens from Rainbow Resource, Home Training Tools, etc. and they all have info pamphlets with them, so you don't really need a text in order to dissect. The catalogs I mentioned also sell dissection kits, etc.

Regena