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REAL Science Odyssey Reviews

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REAL Science Odyssey Curriculum ReviewsREAL Science Odyssey is a secular homeschool science curriculum from Pandia Press for students grades K through 10. Elementary (Level One) topics are presented in entertaining story-like formats, followed by hands-on activities, background science information, parent instructions, labs, reading lists, journaling ideas, and websites. Level One titles: Life, Astronomy, Earth & Environment, Chemistry, and Physics.  Each course also comes with REAL Science Odyssey Student Pages, which are an additional copy of all of the pages from the course that are consumable.

Middle to High School (Level Two) courses bring science alive by engaging young people’s minds while they are actively participating in learning. The student text is written to the student so that they can learn independently. Level Two titles: Biology level 2 and Astronomy level 2.  Each of these titles has a textbook, a student workbook, and a teacher's guide.

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  1. REAL Science Odyssey Review by
    Pros: accurate terminology, fun labs
    Grades Used: K through 4th so far

    We've enjoyed using REAL Science Odyssey materials for the past three years. Each lesson involves a short reading and a lab, and the kids have notebook pages that they use for recording information; there are also occasional craft projects. In Astronomy we're making a planets book, and in Biology they ended up making two "books" about the human body and the animal kingdom (we also raised butterflies from caterpillars which was a lot of fun). Most labs involve materials that you can find around the house or that are not too difficult to find at a store. Since most levels only take two or three days a week, there is time to supplement with other science books, and there is a big list of recommended reading in each teacher's manual. Overall I appreciate the accuracy of the scientific terms (even though children are not required to memorize terminology at this point -- but sometimes their memory surprises me), and the fact that they just focus on consensus science without trying to make it conform to a religious ideology.

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