The Science Guidebook is for the mentor and will teach how to use Layers of Learning Science to best effect. This Science Guidebook will teach you about science, what it is and what it isn’t. It will also teach you how to teach using the Layers of Learning Science units. You will learn which equipment you need to teach science and where to get the chemicals and glassware. You will also learn how to plan a day’s science lesson, a unit, and a year of science. In addition you will learn to:
- Utilize outside reading to give your children many points of view and the best engaging books for their age group
- Teach multiples ages at once
- Use the sidebars to take your learning further into science and beyond science into history, geography, arts, and more
- Plan individualized assessments based on your student’s learning
- Have confidence that you can guide your children through science even if you don’t know a petri dish from a test tube
Layers of Learning Science is a complete science curriculum for kids from age 6 to 18 and can be used at home with families, in co-op classes, or in schools. It includes hands-on experiments that teach real science principles as well as paper projects, worksheets, and notebooking activities. Concepts taught in Layers of Learning Science range from “what are seasons” to quantum mechanics. The science is in depth, covering everything typically taught in high school science, plus much that goes beyond. Yet, the concepts are taught simply, plainly, and can accessed by many ages of children and their non-scientist mentors.
Layers of Learning Science utilizes a Science Notebook that teaches children to take detailed notes in exactly the way real scientists keep lab notebooks or field notebooks. In addition children are taught to do science write-ups, a precursor to scientific papers, a skill taught in college science classes. The Science Guidebook will teach you, as the mentor, how to help your children learn these vital science skills.
Learn more about the Layers of Learning approach and get a copy of the Units at a Glance, a PDF document that shows all the Layers of Learning titles and subheadings in the Curriculum Guide.
Tami –
The guidebooks are very helpful; they help you set the stage, so to speak, and cover all of the things that you will need to know.
katemichelle07 –
Guidebooks are so helpful to understand using this curriculum to the fullest
Meagan H –
This science guidebook is very thorough and covers everything from what science is and why we teach science to planning the Layers of Learning science curriculum and explaining everything you will come across in the science curriculum books. Unfortunately, this guidebook is absolutely necessary if you want to be able to understand how to use Layers of Learning in the manner the authors intended. There is so much information here that is just not explained in the actual curriculum that makes this add-on a necessary purchase. On the positive side, I think you would be able to buy just one of these guidebooks and understand enough to plan the four main subjects (this does not include the writers workshop). Overall, the guidebook contains a lot of great information that makes it a necessary purchase, but it really shouldn’t be.