Teaching Science to Special Needs Kids can be difficult, however, if you have lots of options, you will succeed! Considering God’s Creation comes in a Workbook format – but don’t let that fool you! This is no “normal” workbook. This workbook is full of information and hands on activities that will keep any kid actively learning everything from how God created the heavens and the earth to how the Human Body was created and how it works. It also covers everything God made in-between the first and sixth days of Creation, including the Universe, the Earth, Rocks and Minerals, Weather and the Plant and Animal Kingdoms.
There are 36 Lessons, but some of the Lessons have multiple ‘sub’ lessons under the main Lesson. Because the Lessons include lots of options in the forms of Vocabulary, Introduction (the research/reading part of the lesson), Song/Poem, Activity, Bible Reading, Notebook work, Evolution Stumpers and Reviews, you the teacher can use what is easy for your child when they are having a bad day or choose to dig in a little deeper when you are having a good day! The choice is yours.
Because my kids love Science so much, we did this everyday! We started this curriculum when my kids were in Kindergarten and 1st Grades. While we completed at least one lesson per week, we completed the whole workbook in one year! We LOVED all the activities and turned most of them into parts of our Lapbooks that we created. This workbook is great for Unit Study folks looking for a “Curriculum” to follow. We also loved how it followed the days of Creation, going into detail with each creation.
I think this would work well with the Classical schoolers as it has a Lesson Plan that you can follow, however, this same feature makes it a little too rigid for most unschoolers that I know. The only thing I can see that would make this “curriculum” more appealing to me is if it were offered as an eBook (a downloadable PDF). This would eliminate shipping costs and bring the cost of the product down even further (no printing costs equals less cost of product).
We loved this “curriculum”. It was a great foundation on which to grow from. I even find myself coming back to it as a reference with our Upper Elementary / Jr High Science! My kids learned that Science is fun and Science is from God. Two important points that I’m glad my kids learned early. You can look at this “curriculum” here.