I like to use the expertise of youtube for my kids when I can.
Most days we use Crash Course for something.
For science I try to keep everyone in the same field, though I do have slightly different goals for the younger ones than the older.
This year Science is Biology, for Punk the main focus is in basic concepts of microscopic organisms, and lots of general info about all kinds of plants and animals. For the older kids I am hoping for a much more in depth look at cells, animal classification, genetics and plants.
Right now we are going through the Crash Course Biology. I find it decent, though sped up, which makes sense being a 'crash' course and all. So we also use Amoeba Sisters, which is a much calmer, slower plan for basically the same information. I haven't found an amazing biology book, so we have a couple, and Princess is using the Life of Fred Pre Algebra plus Biology. Which actually does cover the same types of things as both youtube courses.
The videos are short so I don't feel like I am overdoing it, and at three a week each we will still finish.
I also sometimes use youtube to find what we were supposed to be looking at under a microscope - because we really still have no microscope skills!
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