We love hands-on learning in our house. For the past month, we have been digging in and having fun with Elementary General Science: Water & Weather from Masterbooks. This is an awesome general science course that takes your student from the flood to forecasts with tons of easy hands-on activities.
Elementary General Science: Water & Weather
Weather & Water from Master Books is what I call an investigative science book and is designed for students 3rd-6th grade. Throughout this study, your student will engage, investigate, explain, apply, expand and assess what they are learning. They will learn about:
• The creation of fossils
• Evaporation and the water cycle
• God’s system of purifying water
• Weather instruments and more!
For the most part, each scientific investigation can be done with items you probably already have laying around the house, and is such an awesome way for children to learn. It shows them the connection between biblical history and the world experienced outside their door where natural processes like rain and wind shape the environment each day.
To go along with the Water & Weather Student Book, we have also been using the teacher guide. This is a wonderful guide that provides the teacher will an easy to use format for home or classroom instruction. I can easily see using this in a co-op setting with as much ease as using it at home.
This 47 page book provides:
• Objectives and teaching aids to guide learning
• Additional resources to expand the educational experience
• Material is perfect for homeschool and Christian school use
• Water and weather and their effect on our world from God’s perspective!
While the teacher guide isn’t necessarily needed in order to teach course, it’s something that I would highly recommend. I feel that personally it helped me to add even more to the lessons that we were doing.
You can purchase Water & Weather on Masterbooks.com.
