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Things I am considering are:
Barrons EZ Biology - Gabrielle Edwards
Biology a Self Teaching Guide - Steven Garber
Castle Heights Experiences in Biology Lab Manual and Student Lab Book
Castle Heights Dissection and Microscope kits
Creator and Creation - Mary Daly
Darwin's Black Box - Michael Behe
Faith, Science and Reason - Christopher Baglow
Lives of a Cell - Lewis Thomas
A Field Guide to Bacteria - Betsey Dyer
The Double Helix - James Watson
The Life of Birds - David Attenborough
Fabre's Book of Insects - Jean-Henri Fabre
Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Handbook of Nature Study - Anna Comstock
Keeping a Nature Journal - Claire Walker Leslie
Learn Biology - Standard Deviants dvd (library dvd - I have yet to preview)
Biology: the Science of Life - Teaching Company set of 12 dvds (library resource - I have yet to preview - some may be suitable)
Humani Generis
Fides et Ratio
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I started to watch Biology: the Science of Life. It is a lecture format, in case you have not seen these before. The speaker was excellent! I only got through a few lectures before I had to return it to the library. He does start out at the beginning, and talks about how you can throw a bunch of stuff into a test tube and get organic molecules and such. Remind your children about secondary causes--God uses the world and people around us to make certain things happen at certain moments not out of coincidence, and only into Man did he breathe the eternal soul, something scientist by can never quantify.
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Is anyone familiar with the book Marilyn posted:Biology a Self Teaching Guide - Steven Garber? I see it in Emmanuel catalog.
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Liz D wrote:
Is anyone familiar with the book Marilyn posted:Biology a Self Teaching Guide - Steven Garber? I see it in Emmanuel catalog.
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Liz - I have not seen a copy of the book or managed to find anyone who has actually used it. I checked scores of reviews online and previews where available. I finally settled with EZ Biology instead of this one (though maybe later in the year I will get this one too) - I was able to find EZ Biology locally to check out. My dd and I were happy with the EZ Biology format for a base and for vocabulary.
The reviews of this book on the WTM forums seemed to say the books was not "self-teaching" and was quite tough.
I would be interested in hearing more too
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Liz D wrote:
Is anyone familiar with the book Marilyn posted:Biology a Self Teaching Guide - Steven Garber? I see it in Emmanuel catalog.
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I have that book. I find it dry and somewhat boring, and I'd hate for it to be my main text, but to use as a basic general reference would be fine. There is an obvious effort to pack a lot of info into a small book, so there is not a lot of explanation for each topic. Black and white, just a few illustrations.
Each brief chapter is followed by a list of terms and a few multiple choice questions (with answers), plus a few "questions to think about" for which answers are not supplied but should be easily found in the text.
I think it's best use would be to use as a test review or refresher after a real biology course has been taken because it really is a "just the basic facts" kind of book.
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Thank you so much for this indepth discussion. We've LOVED Homeschool Connections, but for science I needed something I can afford to pass down to the other kids. We've gone with PH via Kolbe, but I'm having serious doubts about studying for the test and forgetting information. The suggestion for Hippo Campus was a great one! I'm hoping that by adding in some of the reading suggested we can keep an appreciation of Biology alive in Dd#1 while she learns. I know I have almost nothing to add to these discussions, but I glean sooo much by lurking -- THANK YOU!
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In the interest of full disclosure...
My daughter will be doing Biology out of the house - a class for local homeschoolers. After a lot of prayer and thought - we decided for this - and now that she is signed up I feel so relieved and thankful. I
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just wanted to say we signed up paco for the Catholic Science Biology course. so far so good. i don't have many comments yet -- trying to catch up on reading.
Paco's also studying Humani Generis with Kolbe (Theology course) this year so i'm thinking we should be good.
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Kris (or anyone),
Which of the Hippocampus Biology courses do you think is the best? Is the Biology for Non-Majors over-simplified? Does the AP Biology presume a lot of science background? ETA: or is Bio for NM actually a college course while APBio is a high school course? I don't know enough about the topic to see major differences in the treatment.
Also, a sort of spin-off question -- does anyone have a favorite living book about paleobiology or paleoarchaelogy to go with a high school living book approach? Angel, you mentioned it was an interest of yours -- I've become quite fascinated with the subject and would like to read something that wasn't polemical either way -- but written for a layman, and more or less scientifically accurate (though if anyone has a favorite book that is more technical, I'd like to hear about that too).
I hope this question fits on this thread!
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We've watched both on Hippocampus and it depends on the student. I'm having my Jr. High non-science girl watch the non-majors and she's sometimes lost and sometimes not. I've thought the AP videos were pretty tough in spots and much the same in spots (I'm not very sciencey myself.)
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Willa wrote:
Also, a sort of spin-off question -- does anyone have a favorite living book about paleobiology or paleoarchaelogy to go with a high school living book approach? Angel, you mentioned it was an interest of yours -- I've become quite fascinated with the subject and would like to read something that wasn't polemical either way -- but written for a layman, and more or less scientifically accurate (though if anyone has a favorite book that is more technical, I'd like to hear about that too).
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I loved the book Lucy: the Beginnings of Humankind by Johansen and Edey.
Not sure if you would call it polemic. It is just the story of the discovery and subsequent study of the famous "Lucy" fossils and the science behind all that. It is very readable-almost like a mystery to be solved by putting the pieces together(as all good science should be!) but in this case quite literally! It is written from an evolutionary viewpoint, obviously.It is a really good, readable, living book, IMHO. Even if you don't completely agree with Johanson's interpretations of the data, the book itself is a fascinating look into how science is actually done. It is also written to be very accessible to the non-scientist. I think I first read it when I was a teenager (which means it is quite old and the science is likely a bit "dated") and at the time I was definitely a non-scientist, but I loved it anyway.
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That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for! Thank you, Theresa. I read about "Lucy" in a Nat'l Geo just a few years back, so I didn't even know she had been studied before then.
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Willa, I agree with jennthmg about it depending on the student. Biology for Non-majors is clearly a college-level designation, though probably taught at the high school level. It is less in-depth than the AP course, which I imagine is also a college designation. In fact, they have no human A&P in them, which is another clue that this is geared towards college students.
Based on those assumptions, I would say that Biology for Non-majors would be at the right level for any high school student.
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Thanks jenn and Kris, that is helpful.
I found "Lucy: the Beginnings of Humankind" on Paperback Swap  . By polemic I meant trying to provide evidence towards or against a particular worldview -- I read and enjoy those things at times but right now am just fascinated with fossil evidence and the richness of the Earth's history in general. It ties in with biology and also with ancient history so it connects nicely with what we're doing for 9th grade this year (and my 9th grader has always been fascinated with paleontology).
BTW -- I thought I would mention this high school living books biology unit at Learning Lifestyles -- for an outline of the unit see here. I did a quick search and didn't see it mentioned on here but if it is a repeat I apologize!
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