He is nearing the end of AO Year 8 and as many of you would know, this particular year has been updated recently to add in living books for science. Apart from Phineas Gage, one of the new additions which he'd already read a couple of years ago, we've just continued with the book selections before the new plans were added. I added in books to bring him more into line with his actual grade level of Year 10.
What he's done this year:
Natural History - we continue to use Insect Life in Australasia by William Gillies for our special studies. There's a good article here which explains how to implement these studies. We've been doing this once a week as well as continuing with nature walks. In the past two weeks we had a day at the beach and an afternoon/early evening walk at the riverside.
Understanding Physics by Isaac Asimov - he's enjoying this book and earlier in the year used Apologia Physical Science for experiment ideas which worked quite well. I found some interesting videos recently I knew would appeal to him - posted here - and the notebook page above was based on one of them.
Apologia Biology - I picked out a few modules for him to work through; mostly the sections on the cell & DNA. It's a fairly dense book and he's more interested in other areas of science but I'd like him to do some biology and will probably include a biography or other narrative science book on this subject when I find one I like.
From the Year 8 selections:
The Microbe Hunters
William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
Johann Kepler bio
Pelicans checking out the local fisherman
Special Study - Insects
From Benj's Biology readings:
The sun descending in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest.
And I must seek for mine.
William Blake
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest.
And I must seek for mine.
William Blake
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