4.0 out of 5 stars
Teacher's Guide, September 30, 2010
This review is from: Forces and Motion: From High-speed Jets to Wind-up Toys Teacher's Guide (Investigate the Possibilities: Elementary Physics) (Paperback)
*For the rest of my review, check out the Student's Journal and Text reviews for this program.*
The student journal is black and white, with room for observations (graphing activities, diagrams, and tables), short answer questions, math activities, true/false questions, fill in the blanks etc.) - these vary from lesson to lesson (not all of these are presented for each activity.) A separate notebook will also be required for recording answers to the longer questions in the "What Did You Learn?" section for each activity. Some of the questions are presented fully in the journal, others will need to be looked up in the text, such as the "Dig Deeper" research components.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Hands On Science Made Easy, January 12, 2010
This review is from: Forces and Motion: From High-speed Jets to Wind-up Toys Teacher's Guide (Investigate the Possibilities: Elementary Physics) (Paperback)
The teacher's guide gives you teaching tips, additional material, and answers to the questions in the book. The student book is basically a lab book for the student to record everything from the experiments and questions in the book. It covers The Activity: Procedure and Observations, Thinking About, Dig Deeper (extra activities for further learning), What Did You Learn, and Stumper's Corner (student writes 2 questions about the topic that are meant to "stump" someone).
My daughter likes the short lessons with the experiments. The student book (journal) helped her stay focused on the task at hand. She also appreciated the glossary at the back of the book.
I like that everything is laid out for the teacher. If you have the supplies needed, you can quickly look over the lesson the night before and easily teach the lesson the next day. Or, if you have an older child, they can do the lesson completely on their own. We did have some issues of not having the needed supplies on hand (walking toy, wagon, spring scale), but, for the most part, the items used in the experiments are household items.
We will be using this set as part of our current science curriculum. It's a great way to reinforce concept that my daughter is learning. You could use this as a science core by adding more in depth study into the concepts covered. While this set is geared towards grades 3-6, you could easily beef it up for higher grades.
Note: This is a creation science based resource. I received a copy of this item in order to do a review on my blog. No other compensation was received.
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