Apologia's Young Explorer Science Books by Jeannie Fulbright

Jeannie Fulbright's science courses have received many accolades and awards as the best science books for homeschoolers. The series is designed for students in elementary and middle school and gives a solid science foundation, using time-tested, proven methods that enhance retention, unleash a child's love for learning and passion for science, and ground the learner's faith in a young earth created by the God of the Bible.

Although the series is a great for co-ops and classrooms, it's uniquely designed to be a perfect science course for the homeschooling parent with very little science background or knowledge. One textbook teaches both parent and child in engaging words that inspire and fascinate the learner with the amazing way God created the world and all that dwells in it.

The textbook uses the Charlotte Mason philophies of living book and whole book learning, narration and notebooking. Living books engage the reader with words that inspire, not just inform. Whole books cover the subject in its entirety, rather than touching on only aspects of each field of science. Narration asks the students to tell back their learning in order to solidify their understanding and notebooking is an especially effective method for recording and retaining one's learning. All of these elements work together to create a course that produces students with science knowledge and understanding, not just memorization of science facts and figures.

The Notebooking Journals have been especially designed to increase the students' understanding of the subject by allowing them to creatively express their learning in their own words and drawings and giving them a template for completing the assigned activities. Included in these aesthetically pleasing journals are vocabulary work, Scripture copywork and lapbooking activities.