What You Will Love About Apologia
Scheduling is All Done For You 🙌
The suggested schedule found in every student notebook allows students to complete an entire textbook, experiments and all, in approximately two weeks of work per module. Families should review the schedule and modify it to fit their needs as necessary. Students check off each day when the assigned work is completed as a way of recording their progress. At a glance, parents can easily see their student’s advancement.
Students Learn Independently 📚
All Apologia textbooks and notebooks are written to students in a conversational tone so that young people can easily navigate through the curriculum on their own. As students are engaged in a learning conversation, they become confident to not only speak about a subject but also understand how the concepts work in the real world. Apologia’s curriculum helps students methodically learn, self-check, and master difficult concepts before moving on. There is no skimming over the reading materials only to find gaps in comprehension during a test.
Hands-on Activities and Experiments Solidify Concepts 🧪
Students of all ages are full of “why” and “wow.” They’re fun to watch when something has caught their attention. You can almost see their world expand as they build on the knowledge about the world in which they live. Apologia’s curriculum is designed with hands-on activities and experiments that are easily performed in a homeschool setting. While textbooks are necessary to help students acquire scientific facts, it is essential for students to actively participate in the scientific process of discovery to gain a personal awareness of their world.
Apologia textbooks have two types of experiments:
- Controlled experiments teach students about formulating a hypothesis and data collection.
- Descriptive experiments, such as microscopy work, field studies, and dissections teach students about qualitative observations.
All experiments teach students how to collect and analyze data, both scientific and mathematical, to formulate a hypothesis based on inductive and deductive problem-solving skills, and to understand the limitations of data and conclusions. Every student notebook has dedicated pages for lab reports. These templates help students write complete lab reports using the scientific method.
Students Learn How to Study and Review 📖
After reviewing their notes, students are prepared to complete a Study Guide found after every module to prepare for their test. Students are instructed to attempt to answer every question without referring back to any notes. They then analyze how far they got. If they complete the Study Guide successfully, they should move on to their test. If there are areas that students can not complete, they should first use their notes to complete unfinished sections. If their notes are not sufficient to answer the remaining Study Guide questions, they learn that they need to take more detailed notes in the future. Ultimately, students can refer back to the textbook to find the answers. This process of knowledge first, notes second, and restudy third helps students to learn good notetaking and study habits.
Tests Equip Students to Apply Learned Knowledge ✅
Students will take a test after each module. These tests should be considered closed book tests which means that students should be tested on their knowledge without the aid of their textbooks or notebooks. Apologia recommends that student tests be graded by a parent. The answers to the tests can be found in the Solutions Manual. We also recommend that parents give the graded tests back to the student and permit the student to use notes and textbooks to correct any incorrect answers. Half credit can be given for these responses once they are corrected properly.
We recommend this technique so that students learn from their mistakes. There is no purpose to moving on if understanding is lacking. Apologia’s curriculum plan is rigorous and considered to be college preparatory. We will be with your students every step of the way, ensuring their success.
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