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High School Science

INTRODUCTION

In very broad, general terms, transcript requirements for science tend to include biology, chemistry, and physics; and/or at least one lab science. It is safe to plan for these Big Three science courses in high school, though how a family accomplishes those credits is not dictated by state or college-admissions requirements. Many families choose to outsource science via co-ops, online courses through programs like Homeschool Connections, or dual-enrollment classes. These are perfectly acceptable options. Families may also choose a more textbook-oriented approach to science if they wish. As a Charlotte-Mason-influenced program, however, Mater Amabilis is committed to offering, to the greatest extent possible, a living-books course of study for each content area, including the sciences. Parents may also opt for an integrated approach, or to schedule sciences discreetly, as institutional schools tend to: Biology in 9th, Chemistry in 10th, Physics in 11th, an advanced science course in 12th. 

Charlotte Mason on science learning:  

The only sound method of teaching science is to afford a due combination of field or laboratory work, with such literary comments and amplifications as the subject affords. For example, from {a good book on science} children derive a ascertain enthusiasm for crystals as such that their own unaided observation would be slow to afford.– Volume VI, p. 223

The nature note book is very catholic and finds room for the stars in their courses and for, say, the fossil anemone found on the beach at Whitby. – Volume VI, p. 223

(Form III,  but can be extended.) The students.. cover a good deal of field work, and the study of some half dozen carefully selected books on natural history, botany, architecture and astronomy, the principle being that children shall observe and chronicle, but shall not depend on their own unassisted observation. Volume VI, p. 220

On completion of the chosen course, a student may be awarded one credit in science. If the family desires an integrated science, partial credits may be awarded in biology, chemistry, physics, etc., on the understanding that the student will complete a full credit in each strand of science by graduation. 

note on labs

A good rule of thumb is to plan on 30 hours of lab work in a full credit course to award a lab credit. Most students will need at least one lab credit to meet state graduation requirements. 

Excellent lab resources:

John D. Mays: The Student Lab Report Handbook – This is a good resource for lab reports for all subjects.

William Berman: How to Dissect

Traditional (One subject per year) Science Course Plan 

3-4 years of study, each focused on a different scientific subject. 

Textbook/lecture option with 1 additional living book OR Living books plus labs with lectures and text as reference. 

**Honors includes additional living books from other science areas. 

Mater Amabilis Level 3-4 Science courses provide an excellent background in physical science and earth science. A student who hasn’t completed them could use a condensed version in 9th grade as Earth Science or Physical Science.

Option 1:

Level 5 year 1: Biology 

Level 5 year 2: Chemistry 

Level 6 year 1: Physics 

Level 6 year 2: Advanced Science Course / Dual Enrollment (e.g. Physics II or Anatomy or other course that interests the student)  (or no science)

Option 2: (Physics first approach)

This article from Novare explains the physics first sequence.

Level 5 year 1: Physics (introductory physics for students who haven’t completed algebra)

Level 5 year 2: Biology (a student with enough math may study chemistry before biology)

Level 6 year 1: Chemistry

Level 6 year 2: Advanced Science Course / Dual Enrollment (e.g. Physics II or Anatomy or other course that interests the student)  (or no science)

Or (Integrated Biology approach):

Biology 1x/week over 3-4 years PLUS one other subject course per year following either of the two options above.

Biology 

Pick a good narratable textbook and/or recorded or live course with an experienced instructor, or join a class at a local co-op. Continue to practice narration and/or science journaling after each reading.

Supplement with 1-3 additional living books related to Biology. (see list below)

Include a lab component. A good rule of thumb is to plan on 30 hours of lab work in a full credit course to award a lab credit.

Textbook/course options:

Biology: A Search for Order in Complexity 

Biology: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self Teaching Guides) 3rd Edition by Steven D. Garber

This is a good option for those who want to add more living books.

Campbell Biology 

CHC Life Science (recommended 7th-9th; a number of MA users say it’s rigorous enough for 9th grade)

Crash course lectures (videos only, would need to supplement.)

Homeschool Connections recorded or live Biology classes

Khan Academy Biology (video based) or AP Biology

Prentice Hall: Biology Student Edition by Kenneth R. Miller

Novare General Biology program – This program is designed for a student who has already studied introductory physics.

Homeschool Connections Online offers live and recorded classes using this text.

Schola Rosa General Biology (online course)

Living Books Options (see also extended list below):

Robin Marantz Henig: The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics

Geoff Hodge: Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored

Practical botany – may want to include journaling and gardening

Gina Kolata: Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It

Paul de Kruif: Microbe Hunters

Boyce Rensberger: Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell 

James D. Watson: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

Biology Lab Resources: 

BioLeap Online Dissection Resources

Biology Curriculum & Lab Kits from Home Science Tools

The Home Scientist kits (for use with Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments, also available on their website as a free PDF)

Leaf Collection Project resources

The Science Bank

Chemistry 

Pick a good narratable textbook and/or recorded or live course with an experienced instructor, or join a class at a local co-op. Continue to practice narration and/or science journaling after each reading.

Supplement with 1-3 additional living books related to Chemistry. (see list below)

Include a lab component. A good rule of thumb is to plan on 30 hours of lab work in a full credit course to award a lab credit.

Textbook/course options:

Prentice Hall Chemistry by Wilbraham, Staley, Matta, Waterman

Homeschool Connections Online offers live and recorded classes using this text.

Sarquis and Sarquis: Modern Chemistry

This text has been recommended for the student who will notice any over-generalization.

DIVE Chemistry

Khan Academy High School Chemistry or AP Chemistry

Homeschool Connections recorded or live Chemistry classes, either conceptual and math based

Conceptual Chemistry from Learn Science Academy Online Science Courses for Homeschoolers

Life of Fred Chemistry – Note: This is a good supplement to a less math rich curriculum, but is not a complete textbook.

Periodic Videos – not a course, but great as a supplement to any curriculum

Spectrum Chemistry

Living Books Options (see also extended list below):

Archie Frederick Collins: Wonders of Chemistry

Michael Faraday: The Chemical History of a Candle

Sam Kean: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson: Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History

Chemistry Lab Resources: 

The Home Scientist kits (for use with Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments or Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments, also available on their website as a free PDF)

Review in Wired

American Chemical Society Virtual Lab

ChemCollective Virtual Labs

Engineer Guy guide with labs 

FactMonster Lab Simulations

Concordia.org High-School Chemistry

CK-12 Chemistry Simulations

Sabbath Mood Chemistry Parts I and II

Physics

Pick a good narratable textbook and/or recorded or live course with an experienced instructor, or join a class at a local co-op. Continue to practice narration and/or science journaling after each reading.

Supplement with 1-3 additional living books related to Chemistry. (see list below)

Include a lab component. A good rule of thumb is to plan on 30 hours of lab work in a full credit course to award a lab credit.

Textbook/course options:

Novare Introductory Physics program – designed for a physics first approach.

Note: The labs recommended by this program may be overwhelming for homeschooling parents. You may want to substitute other labs.

Homeschool Connections recorded or live Physics classes, either conceptual or math based

Derek Owens Online Physics:

“This course is a high school physics course with lab exercises. It will cover the topics normally covered in high school physics.” This physics is math based with an honors option and includes grading and feedback.

Math Without Borders online Physics course – video based

Living Books Options (see also extended list below):

Jack Challoner: The Atom: A Visual Tour (molecular physics)

Richard Feynman: Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

Don S. Lemons: Drawing Physics: 2,600 Years of Discovery from Thales to Higgs

Walter Lewin: For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time – A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics

Tony Rothman: Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond

Physics Lab Resources:

Conceptual Physics from Learn Science Academy Online Science Courses for Homeschoolers

Sabbath Mood Homeschool plans to accompany Walter Lewin’s For the Love of Physics: Part I, Part II, Part III

advanced or topical courses

Earth Science or Physical Science:

Mater Amabilis Level 3 & 4 Science

Botany:

Guest Hollow Botany

Homeschool Connections science courses, live or recorded

Anatomy:

David Macaulay: The Way We Work and a medical anatomy coloring book

Pair with dissection labs of organs. Consider adding a dissection of a fetal pig and an exercise on comparative anatomy.

Science courses using living books:

Geology:

Dougal Dixon: Practical Geologist  – Lesson Plans for Geology using Practical Geologist (single term course)

Lab: TOPScience: Rocks (lab)  1x/week

Integrated Science Option

In this option, students could complete the same Biology, Chemistry, and Physics courses outlined above, but do so in an integrated way, interspersing coursework from all three courses over the years. Note: be certain your student has had an adequate math background for the selected courses.

Alternatively, students could complete an integrated science course of study (in semesters or trimesters) using less “traditional” course materials. This course of study would more closely align with Charlotte Mason’s philosophy of education as applied to scientific disciplines, but may be less easily conveyed to college admissions departments or on a transcript.

Semester Option

Level 5 Year 1

Student earns 0.25 credit towards Biology (which does not need to appear on the transcript yet), 0.5 credit of Chemistry, 0.5 credit of Physics.

Biology 1x a week

Chemistry 2x a week

Physics 2x a week

Level 5 Year 2

Student earns 0.25 credit towards Biology (which could be placed on the transcript as 0.5 credit, combined with that earned in Level 5 Year 1), 0.5 credit of Chemistry, 0.5 credit of Physics.

Biology 1x a week

Chemistry 2x a week (or 4x a week for one semester)

Physics 2x a week (or 4x a week for one semester)

Level 6 Year 1

Student earns 0.5 credit of Biology, 0.5 credit of Religion or Science.

Biology 2x a week

Faith & Science 2x a week (Christopher Baglow: Faith, Science, and Reason)

Level 6 Year 1

Student choice of science of interest (advanced or dual-enrollment) or no science.

Trimester Option

Level 5 Year 1

Student earns 0.25 credit of Biology (which does not yet need to be on the transcript), 0.33 credit of Earth Science, 0.33 credit of Chemistry, and 0.33 credit of Physics.

Biology 1x a week

Current events related to science 1x a week

plus

Term 1: Earth Science 3x a week

Term 2: Chemistry 3x a week

Term 3: Physics 3x a week

Level 5 Year 2

Student earns 0.25 credit of Biology (which can be recorded as 0.5 biology credit on the transcript), 0.33 credit of Earth Science, 0.33 credit of Chemistry, and 0.33 credit of Physics.

Biology 1x a week

Current events related to science 1x a week

plus

Term 1: Earth Science 3x a week

Term 2: Chemistry 3x a week

Term 3: Physics 3x a week

Level 6 Year 1

Student earns 0.25 credit of Biology (which does not need to appear on the transcript yet), 0.33 credit of Earth Science, 0.33 credit of Chemistry, and 0.33 credit of Physics.

Biology 1x a week

Current events related to science 1x a week

plus

Term 1: Earth Science 3x a week

Term 2: Chemistry 3x a week

Term 3: Physics 3x a week

Level 6 Year 2

Student earns 0.25 credit of Biology (which could be recorded as 0.5 credit of Human Anatomy when combined with the previous year’s work)

Biology 1x a week

Current events related to science 1x a week

Other science of interest (advanced or dual-enrollment) or no science.

Example High School Plan

Integrated Science using Trimester option

Note: This example is provided as a rough outline, rather than a detailed plan to be strictly followed. Parents should adjust subjects based on local options and the student’s interest. These suggestions are gleaned from a number of sources and have not all been read or used by Mater Amabilis moderators.

Level 5 Year 1 / 9th grade

Biology 1x a week (all year):

Geoff Hodge: Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored

Practical botany- journaling and gardening

PLUS

Term 1 Earth Science:

Dougal Dixon: Practical Geologist 

Lab: TOPS science : Rocks (lab)  1x/week

Lesson Plans for Geology using Practical Geologist

Current events related to geology

Term 2 Chemistry: 

Jean Henri Fabre: The Wonder-Book of Chemistry

Labs: The Home Scientist kits (for use with Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments or Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments, also available on their website as a free PDF)

Term 3 Physics: 

Walter Lewin: For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time – A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics

Labs: Sabbath Mood Physics I Guide  (Part I)

Current events related to Physics

OR

Robert M. Hazen and James Trefil: Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy

Level 5 Year 2 /10th grade

Biology 1x a week

General Biology – Gale Lawrence: A Field Guide to the Familiar and/or

Bernd Heinrich: In a Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist’s Life in the Field

OR

Environmental Biology with readings from Annie Dillard, Thoreau, Muir, Edward Abbey, John McPhee, Wendell Berry.

PLUS

Term 1 Chemistry 

Michael Faraday : The Chemical History of a Candle

Labs: Engineer Guy guide with labs 

Current events related to chemistry

Term 2 Astronomy

Winter skies are great for viewing stars and planets.

Astronomy Today ISBN-13: 978-0130935717

HSC Astronomy course (Recorded or Live ) – MacBeth Derham

Include weekly night viewing, keep journal

Br. Guy Consolmagno: Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist

Term 3 Physics

Walter Lewin: For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time – A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics

Labs: Sabbath Mood Physics II Guide

Current events related to Physics

Level 6 Year 1 / 11th grade

Biology 1x a week plus

Anatomy using The Way We Work and a human anatomy coloring book

Term 1 Earth Science

Idea 1: Meteorology – Paul Douglas: Restless Skies (out of print)

Idea 2: Oceanography – Rachel Carson: The Sea Around Us OR Jonathan White: Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean OR Edith Widder: Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

Term 2 Chemistry

Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson: Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History and Life of Fred Chemistry

and/or

Khan academy AP Chemistry 

Term 3 Physics

Feynman: Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

OR

Continue with Part III of Sabbath Mood Homeschool’s Physics course. Note Part III is astrophysics and requires familiarity with astronomy.

Level 6 Year 2 / 12th grade

Biology 1x a week

Special study: Continue human anatomy OR study genetics, medical ethics, ecology, environmental science/biology, animal science/bio-agriculture, evolutionary biology, microbiology, biochemistry, etc

Optional:

Additional science courses (dual enrollment, etc.)

Faith and science. Christopher T. Baglow: Faith, Science, and Reason

Living Books of Science and Nature

Biology

George Francis Atkinson:
First Studies of Plant Life
(botany, biology)

Paul Brand and Philip Yancey:
Fearfully and Wonderfully
(faith related to human anatomy)

Rachel Carson:
Silent Spring
The Sea Around Us

Paul de Kruif:
Microbe Hunters
(also history)

Alan de Queiroz:
The Monkey’s Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
(biogeography, evolutionary biology, continental drift, history of science)

Bernd Heinrich:
In a Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist’s Life in the Field

Geoff Hodge:
Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored

Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson:
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration

Gina Kolata:
Flu 
(also history, 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic; biology; epidemiology)

Clara Lejeune:
Life Is a Blessing: A Biography of Jerome Lejeune-Geneticist, Doctor, Father

Gale Lawrence:
A Field Guide to the Familiar

Konrad Lorenz:
King Solomon’s Ring
(nature, zoology, biology)

David Macaulay:
The Way We Work
(human anatomy)

Robin Marantz Henig:
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
(genetics, history)

Gregor Mendel:
Experiments in Plant-Hybridization 

Sy Montgomery:
The Curious Naturalist
(natural history, biology)

Boyce Rensberger:
Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell 

Rebecca Skloot:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher:
Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague

James D. Watson:
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
(genetics, history, primary source)

Chemistry

Cathy Cobb and Monty Fetterolf
The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things

Jean Henri Fabre:
The Wonder-Book of Chemistry

Michael Faraday:
The Chemical History of a Candle

Archie Frederick Collins:
Wonders of Chemistry

Sam Kean:
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson:
Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History

Sean Runette:
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Oliver Sacks:
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Physics

Ludwig Boltzmann:
Lectures on Gas Theory
(Chemistry meets physics)

Jack Challoner:
The Atom: A Visual Tour
(molecular physics)

Michael Faraday:
The Forces of Matter

Richard Feynman:
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

Paul Fleisher:
Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: Principles of Modern Physics

Stephen Hawking:
A Briefer History of Time
(also astronomy)

Alan Hirshfeld:
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday

Don S. Lemons:
Drawing Physics: 2,600 Years of Discovery from Thales to Higgs

Walter Levin:
For the Love of Physics

Tony Rothman:
Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond

Astronomy

Robert S. Ball:
Great Astronomers

Br. Guy Consolmagno
Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist

H. A. Rey:
The Stars: A New Way to See Them

Jay Ryan:
Signs and Seasons:  Understanding the Elements of Classical Astronomy

Dava Sobel:
The Planets
Galileo’s Daughter

Geology and Earth Science

Alan Cutler:
The Seashell on the Mountaintop

Dougal Dixon:
The Practical Geologist

Paul Douglas:
Restless Skies
(meteorology, out of print)

Richard Fortey:
The Earth

Henry Fountain:
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

William Nothdurft:
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt 
(geology; also set for Level 5 Year 1 geography)

E. C. Pielou:
After the Ice Age : The Return of Life to Glaciated North America 

Jonathan White:
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
(oceanography)

Edith Widder:
Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
(memoir, oceanography)

Engineering and Technology

Popular Mechanics magazine

Simon Singh:
The Code Book: The Secrets Behind Codebreaking

Nature and Natural History

Wendell Berry:

The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
and others

Bill Bryson:
A Walk in the Woods
(natural history)

Rachel Carson:
Silent Spring
The Sea Around Us

Annie Dillard:
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
and others

Gerald Durrell:
My Family and Other Animals
Menagerie Manor
Bernd Heinrich:
A Year in the Maine Woods
(natural history)

James Herriot:
All Creatures Great and Small

John Muir:
My First Summer in the Sierra
and others

Gene Stratton Porter:
Girl of the Limberlost

Religion (Faith and Reason)

Clara LeJeune:
Life Is a Blessing: A Biography of Jerome Lejeune-Geneticist, Doctor, Father

Stephen M. Barr:
Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
(philosophy of science)

Vatican Observatory website: Faith & Science resources

Catholic Education Resource Center: The Galileo Affair

All Areas of Science

Bill Bryson:
A Short History of Nearly Everything

Robert M. Hazen and James Trefil:
Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy

Helpful Parent Resources:

MacBeth Derham:
MacBeth’s Opinion 

Jennifer Mackintosh:
Wildflowers and Marbles Booklists

Bernard Nebel:
Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding

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