![]() As a bonus, my daughter who is one year younger has a huge interest in Biology and chose to take Biology as an eighth grader with her older sister, so I made binders for her, too. I do have a planning problem where I get so bogged down with doing ALL the fun things that I tend to over plan, so I am trying really really hard to be realistic about our time. Amazon also has a few biology games that I am considering. I have a few activities from my classroom days as a biology teacher that I am dusting off as well, such as building a DNA molecules with beads and pipe cleaners, enzyme comic strips and edible cell models. It also fits our existing cell phone holder that my kids love to use to take pictures and videos of what they are viewing. I like that we can use it with the included outlet plug or use batteries to make it portable. Since our microscope was meant for younger learners, I upgraded our student microscope to this AmScope M150. For example, for Module 5 The Chemistry of Life, I added a few days to make the unit 11 days long, and added days to Module 6 The Cell to make it 12 days long. After adding the correlating videos and a few of the handouts that I wanted to use to my original lesson plan, I decided to adjust the number of days spent on a few of the units. They also have handouts to go with the videos! I also ordered the Biology Coloring Book for additional visual enforcement and notes. I also found a great YouTube station called Amoeba Sisters with animated videos for almost every topic covered in the Apologia Biology book. I printed out the Knowledge Box Central student lab notebook and organized it into two 1″ poly binders with 8 dividers each from Dollar Tree, one for each semester. I included all of the labs, “On Your Own” questions, module summaries and vocabulary words. I planned each unit to be 8 days long, including one testing day, so that it could be completed in two weeks at four days per week. Initially when planning, I made a year long lesson plan that is available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store here. The student notebook is no longer available for this edition, however I found a correlating student lab notebook that contained all of the “On Your Own” questions, study guides, module summaries, and lab pages on TeachersPayTeacher. I also ordered the animal dissection set, dissection tray, dissection tools kit, and Apologia slide set from Rainbow Resource. The textbook and answer keys were free, I only had to order the test packet. I used the second edition to review the curriculum, but decided to stick with this edition instead of ordering the third edition mainly for financial reasons. When selecting curriculum for this adventure, I went with Apologia Biology because of the good reviews, and a friend gave us a used copy of the second edition for free. She will be our first high school homeschooler! It is exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. My oldest child will be starting ninth grade in a few weeks. If you use the links to make a purchase, you help to support this blog. (The included Amazon links are affiliate links and some of the links are to products in my store.
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