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The curriculum provided is high-quality and very easy to implement. My child enjoys the videos and the format, and I enjoy the "plug and play" aspect. High school chemistry was many years ago for me, and I was quite concerned about teaching it to my homeschooler. This curriculum takes away all the guesswork and anxiety, while still providing excellent instruction. Highly recommended!
The curriculum provided is high-quality and very easy to implement. My child enjoys the videos and the format, and I enjoy the "plug and play" aspect. High school chemistry was many years ago for me, and I was quite concerned about teaching it to my homeschooler. This curriculum takes away all the guesswork and anxiety, while still providing excellent instruction. Highly recommended!
My son was struggling to excel in textbook based science classes at our homeschool co-op and I personally don't like the way they are formatted either. He's in 9th grade this year and pretty mathematically brained and has had no issues with this curriculum. I found the cost extremely reasonable and he has been able to complete the daily work independently. This curriculum is as inquiry based as one can manage with a mostly hands-off homeschool science. There are not a ton of labs and a few of the supplies were a little challenging to track down but it is a fantastic introductory course that I feel good about putting on his high school transcript. The creator, Jason, is also very responsive with e-mail questions/help. For what it's worth, my background is teaching High School Science and I have been very pleased with the content and level of rigor for my non-conventional learner. I will be buying Physics for next year and likely re-buying them both for my daughter in the future.
The Chemistry4Homeschool curriculum is so unique in how it presents new concepts by engaging the student to contemplate and ponder the information prior to direct instruction! The creator of Chemistry4Homeschool has a real gift for taking complex information and making it accessible to the student while maintaining a level of challenge. This curriculum is very “open and go”. Everything you need for the course is included from a daily schedule, to labs, videos, reviews, tests, and answer keys. I HIGHLY recommend getting the printed student workbook; it’s worth every penny and saves so much hassle compared to printing the worksheets on your own! I feel this curriculum is best suited for visual and/or verbal learners with average to above average reading and math skills. Overall, I would definitely rate Chemistry4Homeschool 5/5, and would happily recommend it to other homeschooling families!
This course has been an excellent fit for my tenth grade son, who is a reluctant student of science. His exact words are, "I'm not a fan of science, but this feels doable." Using the method of guided inquiry was a stretch for him at the beginning of the year because he didn't want to have to figure things out for himself and wrestle with the ideas presented. He wanted to be told the answer and move on to the next question. As the course has progressed, he's gotten much more comfortable formulating his own reasons for why something has happened or predicting what will happen based on info that's been presented. I am grateful that the course has helped him develop his critical thinking skills. The course consists of a workbook and not a textbook. I appreciate that the course is condensed in that way and that my son doesn't have to read extensively about concepts. I don't feel like he is lacking anything by not having a traditional textbook. Before starting the course, I compared the topics in Jason Neil's course to the chapters in a popular option for homeschoolers; I feel that this course hits the same topics. More recently I borrowed a test book and workbook key for another curriculum to see how I felt about the rigor of this course now that we're nearing the end of the course. The other course requires students to write definitions for many vocab words each chapter. Jason Neil doesn't require that but as I looked through the vocab, I realized that my son knows what the vast majority of the words mean because he's had to use them and apply them to complete his daily assignments. Looking at the workbook questions and test questions for the other curriculum, I felt that my son would be able to answer most of them.I've been learning chem right along with my son for much of the year and have found it interesting despite preferring literature and grammar to science. I love having daily videos to explain the concepts. Overall, the videos are helpful; I permit my son to watch them at double speed much of the time and that has worked well. The speed isn't too fast to understand and we can always pause and go back if needed.Significant figures have been a challenge for my son. We've had to go back and review them a few times. Sometimes he can't understand how Jason Neil rounds. I feel that's less a problem with the course and more a lack of understanding on my son's part. I'm satisfied with the course and plan for my other two children to take it when they are old enough.Nonetheless, there are a few things I would change or improve. Generally, there is only one lab day per chapter in the edition I'm using. That seems a bit light, especially compared to some other courses but has worked well for us.Additionally, it would help if there was a list of what materials the students can have available for the test, such as periodic table, famous ion sheet, calculator, etc). Not having studied chemistry for many years, it didn't occur to me that my son needed to have a periodic table to reference when he took his first test. Some chapters have required the famous ion sheet; at first I wondered if my son needed to memorize all of the ions but as I watched a few videos and didn't hear Jason Neil ask the kids to memorize the ions, I concluded that it was okay to reference the sheet during the exam. A calculator is definitely required for tests; that wasn't hard to figure out, but I have been unsure if they should memorize all the formulas or if they can write some on a notecard. For at least one test, the formulas have been at the top of the test but the last test my child completed didn't have any of the formulas listed at the top, making me think he was expected to know them. In that case, I exercised parental discretion and allowed him to copy a few onto a notecard so he could focus on doing the calculations.It would also be useful if there was a spot on the website that listed all of the labs, i.e. what day they are conducted in each chapter, so that my son could easily locate them in advance and print them and begin to gather materials. I'd also love it if the online portion kept track of where my son left off each day so he didn't have to scroll or if there was some sort of printable checklist to mark off course progress.Finally, the test answer key indicates the answers but doesn't show the math for problems involving calculations. It's so helpful that Jason Neil works out the answers in the daily videos; I wish it were also so for the tests. Overall, when my son has missed calculation problems on the test, he's been able to rework the problems to get the correct solution. That can be a bit tricky for multi-step problems. However, I will say that I recently emailed Jason to ask him to write out a solution for a test problem my son couldn't figure out and he responded within a few hours; he's very approachable.
We absolutely love the Chemistry 4 Homeschool curriculum. I was apprehensive about teaching chemistry. Chemistry 4 Homeschool makes it very turnkey for me. The video lessons are fantastic. The instruction and exercises guide my kids in a way that they develop a true understanding. The lessons and assignments interest and challenge them. They love the course and say they feel a real sense of accomplishment when they figure out concepts, problems, etc.
I took this course over 12 years ago when I was in high school, and it was great. So glad to see there’s a homeschool version now!! This will be great to use with kids. The guided inquiry is extremely valuable. Very well-designed!
I used Chemistry 4 Homeschool for a high school homeschool coop. It is a great program. I highly recommend this program for your high school chemistry class. One of its best characteristics is that the program is complete; in one book for the student, the chemquest worksheets become notes and the skill practice worksheets become homework. The online videos give great instruction either for the student or as teacher prep. The teacher resources included answers to everything and chapter tests. I also found the guided inquiry method fascinating to teach; when the students have their "a-ha" moments, all is good! The program covers all the topics for high-school level chemistry. The only con is that there is not a lab component, but I easily augmented the class with the myriad of chem lab programs and resources available either online or in the marketplace.
I stopped by Jason’s booth at the Great Homeschool Convention, Greenville, SC. He was very informative explaining his curriculum and in answering my questions. He emphasized how easy and simple teaching chemistry at home can be and ensured that my children would get quality chemistry lessons that contained depth of the subject matter, without my fear of “blowing up my house” or my children not being prepared for college if they chose that route. I liked his program enough to enter his drawing for free access to his program for a year, and actually won! My 10th grade son has been using this program this semester and is really enjoying it! It’s simple, engaging and the subject matter is explained in the tutorial videos that is easy to process. My son likes that he can watch the tutorial videos, answer questions, check his own work and then go back to review anything he didn’t get correct. The videos are to the point, no fluff and nothing drawn out that would potentially lose his interest- he is very computer/tech/ engineering mindset so I needed something that would continue building that foundation of engineering, without boring him in an elementary level presentation of the material, nor being over his head. This program is simple for a mom not strong in math, and quality for a child that is very science/engineering minded, without fear of being watered down. It goes to show that you don’t need a lot of extra bells/whistles and fluff to teach any curriculum at home, especially science/chemistry. I will purchase access to this program when my next child is ready for chemistry!
This is exactly what I was looking for. My 10th grade homeschooler has always loved science. Last year, I tried very hard to find him a biology curriculum that he would like. After 6 different attempts, we finally settled on one, but he wasn't engaged. It was simultaneously boring and overwhelming. I saw his interest in science slip away. BUT, I was determined to find a great chemistry curriculum for this year, and Chemistry 4 Homeschool is it!The content is digestible and engaging. Jason asks students what they think will happen from a certain reaction before he tells them. This is excellent! Before I started homeschooling, I was a middle school math teacher. I know firsthand that the discovery method has much longer lasting results than the lecture method.Jason's curriculum is set up in my ideal way. My son logs on to the website and he scrolls down to Day 1 or Day 6 or whatever day he is on. It is crystal clear what he is supposed to do that day. Jason often includes videos where he demonstrates chemical concepts. Sometimes my son prints off a page to complete. Sometimes he does a science experiment on his own (very simple and safe yet still very educational), or he asks me to help him with an experiment if the instructions say parental guidance is needed. My son grades his own work on the honor system, then he watches a video where Jason explains the answers. Eventually my son tells me its time for a test. I print off the test and proctor it. I am the only one with the answer key, so I check the answers and we discuss what he missed. Jason's program is also very unique in that it includes a review before each test. This is what teachers do in a classroom, but most curriculum does not do that effectively. If you do well on Jason's review, you will do well on the test.We are less than half way through the curriculum this year, and my son loves science again! One thing I wasn't sure about was how I was going to answer my son's questions because chemistry is not my strong suit. Jason has been amazing. I just send him an email, and he replies usually the same day. My son has asked several questions to understand why his answers were incorrect. Jason emailed me back and made it very clear in a fun and encouraging way. My son has even had curiosity questions that went beyond the curriculum, and Jason was happy to answer!If Jason offered other subjects, I would be purchasing them as well. He knows how to teach. I'm so glad that I found his chemistry program :)
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The only homeschool chemistry curriculum designed by a public school teacher who is also a homeschool dad. Complete online chemistry video instruction! See how guided inquiry can help your kids learn chemistry more effectively than textbooks alone.
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