Exploring Creation with Mathematics, Level 4 was designed to encourage your child to dive into a joyous journey of discovering new things about the world and its Creator. In level 4, students learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, data collection and graphing, fractions, and geometry. They’ll explore the beauty of mathematics in all aspects of life, including the symmetry and patterns that surround us every day. Activities, projects, and games help students see the beauty, order, and truth of creation.

This hands-on, interactive curriculum also encourages your child to ponder creation on a new level. Why does mathematics work? Right from the start, the tone in our math courses lets students know that they are going to study math as a tool to help them understand their unique place in all the universe. Every unit begins with a “Seeing Our Creator” section that places the concepts coming up in their proper place – back with our Creator.

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Placement Guide

Review our math placement guide to determine which level is the best fit for your child.

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Companion Resources:

Exploring Creation with Math: Level 4 – Student Text and Workbook
Exploring Creation with Math: Level 4 – Teaching Guide and Answer Key

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Exploring Creation with Mathematics, Level 4 is a curriculum that makes common, age-appropriate, everyday connections so that students have the strong foundations that are crucial if a student is going to achieve success not only in higher levels of mathematics but also in life.

Exploring Creation with Mathematics, Level 4 was designed to encourage your child to dive into a joyous journey of discovering new things about the world and its Creator. In level 4, students learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, data collection and graphing, fractions, and geometry. They’ll explore the beauty of mathematics in all aspects of life, including the symmetry and patterns that surround us every day. Activities, projects, and games help students see the beauty, order, and truth of creation.

This hands-on, interactive curriculum also encourages your child to ponder creation on a new level. Why does mathematics work? Right from the start, the tone in our math courses lets students know that they are going to study math as a tool to help them understand their unique place in all the universe. Every unit begins with a “Seeing Our Creator” section that places the concepts coming up in their proper place – back with our Creator.

Overview of Exploring Creation with Mathematics, Level 4

This product is the spiral-bound All-in-One Student Text and Workbook for Exploring Creation with Mathematics, Level 4, which is a hands-on, interactive elementary math curriculum. Filled with activities, projects, and games that help students comprehend lessons, students will also see the connections between math, science, business, art, our world, and our universe. Most importantly, students will begin to comprehend how mathematics gives us a glimpse of our Creator.
Exploring Creation with Mathematics, Level 4, All-in-One Student Text and Workbook

This course expands on the knowledge gained in levels 1 – 3 elementary math mathematics. The Exploring Creation with Mathematics series utilizes a mastery approach with lots of review. The author, Kathryn Gomes, connects the topics using a built-in review with the skills practice sections. Hands-on projects introduce and reinforce concepts in a deeper way. The author moves through the material following a specific progression and 4-step approach. Each lesson utilizes problems and projects and begins with a tangible presentation, then moves through a pictorial presentation of the concept, followed by an abstract presentation, and finishes with an application activity. The projects apply math to the student’s life to foster an appreciation for math and help them look forward to doing math every day.

Inside this course you will find:

• Seeing Our Creator devotionals at the beginning of each unit connects the math concepts your child will learn to God and His creation
• A suggested daily schedule, with thoughtful pacing through concepts that reflect a systematic progression from one skill to the next, is most important for eliminating frustration
• Plenty of skills practice, including fresh and exciting easy-to-set-up games to help ensure that your child is prepared for the next level of math concepts introduced
• Hands-on activities, games, and projects using the provided activity sheets and everyday household products give your child tangible connections to the abstract concepts learned
• Colorful and age-appropriate lesson layouts and page design make learning more inviting for your student
• Options and suggestions for adjusting a lesson if your child is struggling or if your child is advancing quickly through the material are provided
• Supply lists, answers to the problems, teaching tips, and suggestions for taking an activity further are also given

Daily Schedule and Supplies

The suggested Daily Schedule included with each course is based on four days a week for 28 weeks. We encourage you to adjust it to the needs of your child and your family’s schedule.

On average, each lesson takes 30 to 45 minutes. However, this time may vary if your child is taking a hands-on project a little further or is needing a little extra time to complete a skills practice. On a typical day, your student will spend about 5 to 10 minutes reviewing concepts previously learned, participate in a fun hands-on activity that introduces a new concept, and then apply the new concept by working through practice worksheets.
You will also need to gather some common household items and purchase a few common math manipulative items to fully use this course. Common household items include things like dry beans for counting. Math manipulatives include items like a base ten block set. A complete list is available for each grade, and materials are reused within different grades as applicable for concepts being taught.

Placement Guide

Review our math placement guide to determine which level is the best fit for your child.

View Placement Guide

Companion Resources:

Exploring Creation with Math: Level 4 – Student Text and Workbook
Exploring Creation with Math: Level 4 – Teaching Guide and Answer Key

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Preschool Science: Exploring Creation Together is a spiral-bound curriculum with 2 distinct sections included. The first half is written in a story format that parents can read with their child. Activities are not inserted into the flow of the story, but icons will alert parents to corresponding activities found in the parent guide. It’s up to the parent whether the moment dictates more reading or an activity break. Since this is about exposure, if a student wants to keep reading, that’s fantastic. It is our hope that students will want to read from this book over and over again. There will be plenty of opportunities to choose when and where activities fit into a family’s busy schedule.

The second half of this curriculum is written directly to the parent as the parent guide. It reviews the science topics being learned in the story and contains many age-appropriate activities that demonstrate the science concepts discussed in the story. These activities can help a child better understand the ideas presented in the text. It also has lots of fun activity sheets and games.

Preschool Science: Exploring Creation Together is an Apologia science title recommended for students ages 3-5. The goal of the course is exposure to topics, not science mastery. It is meant to be a fun course that parents read to their youngest explorers. The separate parent section is written to give parents activities that they can choose to use when they see the opportunity arise, letting science activities be natural extensions of their child’s regular activities (play in the backyard), their family activities (grocery shopping), or special events (field trips and vacations).

And what budding young scientist doesn’t want to get their hands into activities? As homeschooling parents, we know that hands-on allows all students to have their own “Ah Ha!” moment as they discover the science. All activities in Preschool Science: Exploring Creation Together use common household materials that can be purchased at local stores. Specific to this title, there are 2 types of activities:

• Hands-on Activities: These are self-contained, individual activities that allow your child to explore concepts at a deeper level. Some are experiments; others are games or worksheets that parents can choose from to develop ideas.
• Project Activities: The “Window to My World” project is a trifold poster board that becomes a large picture window. Your child will add items to the window as the science is explained, eventually creating an entirely unique scene.

Daily Schedule and Supplies

There is no set schedule for this preschool curriculum. Parents are encouraged to let their days guide their direction.

• Watching for opportunities to mentor in the moment.
• Using open-ended questions.
• Encouraging their child to think aloud.

The curriculum encourages parents to be on the lookout for the impromptu adventure in science. Because there are 2 separate sections to this curriculum (one written to the student and one written to the parent), the curriculum can be done over multiple years with it being different every time. It’s like a write-your-own adventure science story.

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This high school health and nutrition curriculum explores the physical, nutritional, emotional, social, mental, and spiritual concepts that are needed for a healthy lifestyle.

With detailed illustrations and photos, clear explanations, and enhanced readability, Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition, 2nd edition covers what maturing students need to know to help them make the best choices they can for themselves as they become young adults. Health is about stewardship: managing what you have as well as you can.

Companion Resources:

Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition – Textbook (Second Edition)
Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition – Student Notebook (Second Edition)

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This companion notebook is designed to be used with Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition, 2nd Edition, and it contains all projects, study guides, and tests needed to complete the course.

Taking good notes while reading a high school science text can make the difference between mastering a concept and not quite understanding it. Good notes provide the following advantages:

• Students stay focused on what they are reading.
• Students pay closer attention, which will increase their retention.
• Students have their own version of the text to review for tests.
• Students learn to connect new information to what they already know.

The student notebook for our homeschool high school health and nutrition course is specifically designed to help students be independent and take responsibility for their science studies as they gain and maintain the personal abilities to create structure and logic through note-taking. It also contains all of the projects assigned in the textbook, places to write the answers to the On Your Own questions that students answer to master comprehension before advancing, Study Guides to help students prepare for exams, and the exams.

Companion Resources:

Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition – Textbook (Second Edition)
Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition – Student Notebook (Second Edition)

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Health is about stewardship: managing what you have as well as you can. This 15-module course covers the physical, nutritional, emotional, social, mental, and spiritual aspects of growing into a healthy adult. Students will study the human body systems, senses, genetics, temperaments, and physical influences on thoughts and feelings. The course respectfully covers mental illness and emotional stability, as well as the inestimable value of another human being, our culture, our biological sex as related to our gender roles, our families, socialization, communication skills, and conflict resolution skills. Students will gain an in-depth knowledge of both macronutrients and micronutrients, including the importance of exercise and proper diet.

Parental Note: This is a full health textbook. Some students may not be mature enough to discuss some of the topics. The reproductive systems are covered in detail, including accurate, yet respectful, illustrations and descriptions. We respectfully discuss the act of marriage, sexual misconduct, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases. We discuss alcohol and drug abuse, depression, pornography, and other topics that also require maturity. Please use your knowledge of your students to decide if this course is appropriate for their maturity levels.

The Answer Key is included on the Apologia Book Extras site. This course is for high school credit (1 or 2 semesters tailored to your needs).

General Topics Include:

• Practical topics include information on the things that students encounter every day, such as hydration and sleep. Realistic nutritional advice is presented in a form that allows students to take charge of their eating habits. And while most high school health courses only deal with physical health, Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition, 2nd edition recognizes that health is just as dependent on social, emotional, mental, and spiritual vitality.
• Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition, 2nd edition covers the difficult topics too. We live in a culture polluted by sexual dysfunction. Apologia designed this health curriculum to tell the truth to teens about the beauty of married sex, the developing baby, and the joy of being parents. We warn teens about the dalliance into immodesty, pornography, and casual sexual activity.
• Apologia also recognizes that some teens struggle, so we tackled the topics in a way that is gentle on the young person who struggles with mental illness, with a disability, or a poor prognosis. We emphasize that each person must do the best he or she can with what is given to them by God, who numbers our days. We even included a chapter on peace. We don’t seek peace as Americans; we distract and entertain ourselves and miss the rewards of simple living. Too often we have to get old before we discover the secret to peace. Apologia wants students to know the importance of peace in their day-to-day lives.

Companion Resources:

Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition – Textbook (Second Edition)
Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition – Student Notebook (Second Edition)

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The Word in Motion is a Bible curriculum for homeschool children and families that tells the story depicted in Scripture in an easy-to-follow, mostly chronological format. There are two volumes in this series: The Word in Motion: Old Testament and The Word in Motion: New Testament.

This is the product page for the second volume, The Word in Motion: New Testament. Apologia’s The Word in Motion: New Testament is the second volume in an illustrated, two-part Bible curriculum that equips students to know, live, and share the Word of God. From the inter-testamental events leading up to the birth of Christ to the apocalyptic vision received by John on the island of Patmos, students and families will explore the key people, places, and events of the New Testament. Along the journey, they will gain a deeper understanding of how all the parts of the Bible fit together to form the glorious story of God’s love for humanity and His plan for our redemption.

Sample Lesson:

Related Products:

The Word in Motion: Old Testament – Basic Set

The Word in Motion: Old Testament – Notebooking Journal
The Word in Motion: Old Testament – Textbook

The Word in Motion: New Testament – Basic Set
The Word in Motion: New Testament – Notebooking Journal
The Word in Motion: New Testament – Textbook

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Apologia’s The Word in Motion is a two-volume Bible study curriculum that equips families to read the Word of God with passion, purpose, and big-picture understanding. In volume 2, The Word in Motion: Old Testament, students will explore the people, places, events, and all of the books in the Old Testament.

Each student will need a Notebooking Journal to complete this course.

Additional Information About Apologia’s The Word in Motion Bible curriculum for homeschool:

Visit The Word in Motion information page to read more and view samples of the Old Testament and the Old Testament Volumes.

View a sample of The Word in Motion: Old Testament Video Lesson:

Related Products:

The Word in Motion: Old Testament – Basic Set

The Word in Motion: Old Testament – Notebooking Journal
The Word in Motion: Old Testament – Textbook

The Word in Motion: New Testament – Basic Set
The Word in Motion: New Testament – Notebooking Journal
The Word in Motion: New Testament – Textbook

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The Teaching Guide & Answer Key includes:

• Solutions to all problems in the All-in-One Student Text and Workbook
• A suggested Daily Schedule in calendar format
• Ideas for helping a student who is struggling with a concept
• Suggestions for further exploring a concept for the student who has a deeper interest
• Supply list for the year
• Tear out activity pages to be used repeatedly to practice concepts. These include game boards and other teaching helps.

Related Resources

Exploring Creation with Mathematics – Level 3 Student Text and Workbook
Exploring Creation with Mathematics – Level 3 Teaching Guide & Answer Key

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As a hands-on, interactive elementary math curriculum, Exploring Creation with Mathematics, Level 3 was designed to encourage your child’s thinking to soar to new heights on a joyous journey discovering new things about the world and its Creator. In level 3, students learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, data collection and graphing, fractions, and geometry.

Filled with activities, projects, and games that guide your student’s comprehension of using numbers in everyday life, this curriculum also encourages your child to ponder creation on a new level.

Related Resources

Exploring Creation with Mathematics – Level 3 Student Text and Workbook
Exploring Creation with Mathematics – Level 3 Teaching Guide & Answer Key

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This course is for elementary grades. As with all other titles in the Young Explorer Series, Exploring Creation with Earth Science is designed to have no prerequisites. We encourage you to follow your student’s interests when choosing a Young Explorer title. There is not a particular order in which to complete the books in the series.

Encourage your young explorers to interact with their world by choosing an elementary homeschool science course that walks alongside students and talks with them as it investigates and points out the science behind everyday occurrences.

Let’s dig in the dirt, not just talk about it. What is it? How did it get made? Why is it different depending on where you dig? What will you find living in it?

Let’s realize that we don’t get deliveries from outer space so everything we need, literally everything, is given to us and made fresh with the systems created to keep life forms alive throughout time. How does the Earth replenish its resources again, and again, and again? Join us in Exploring Creation with Earth Science and find out!

Your young explorer will begin this course with an overview of our cosmic address in the observable universe and then grow in the knowledge of what, in the entire universe, makes Earth special and capable of sustaining life.

An awareness of the world will develop as students interact with the Earth’s geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. By digging deeper into the many different layers of the Earth and the cycles that renew the face of the Earth, your student will acquire not only wisdom that will endure for a lifetime but also an appreciation for our Creator. You may browse the course by clicking here.

What Does Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Earth Science Cover?

Your young explorer will begin this course with an overview of our cosmic address in the observable universe and then grow in the knowledge of what, in the entire universe, makes Earth special and capable of sustaining life.

An awareness of the world will develop as students interact with the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere of the Earth. By digging deeper into the many different layers of the Earth and the cycles that renew the face of the Earth, they will acquire not only wisdom that will endure for a lifetime but also an appreciation for our Creator.

There are 14 lessons included in this one-year earth science course. A detailed lesson plan is included in the Notebooking Journal.

• Lesson 1: The Observable Universe
• Lesson 2: Life in the Habitable Zone
• Lesson 3: Spheres of the Earth
• Lesson 4: Mapping Your World
• Lesson 5: The Geosphere
• Lesson 6: Making and Shaping the Land
• Lesson 7: The Hydrosphere
• Lesson 8: Th Atmosphere
• Lesson 9: Climate and Weather
• Lesson 10: Weather Forecasting
• Lesson 11: The Biosphere
• Lesson 12; Cycles of Life
• Lesson 13: Places on Earth
• Lesson 14: God in Creation

Features of Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Earth Science

• Based on the Charlotte Mason philosophy of learning
• Filled with spectacular photos and graphics
• Easy to incorporate into your homeschool plan with the Suggested Weekly Schedule, which is included in the Notebooking Journal
• Packed with a wide variety of engaging hands-on activities
• Has one special project that winds its way through its lessons. Students build and map out a globe as they grow in their understanding of our planet. It will remind them of all that they’ve learned as they display it through the years.

What Do I Need to Use This Homeschool Earth Science Course from Apologia?

To complete this earth science course, we recommend the hardcover textbook and spiral Notebooking Journal (grades 3-6) or the Junior Notebooking Journal for early elementary ages or children with limited writing skills.

Our earth science course for elementary grades is packed with a variety of hands-on activities, experiments, and projects. These can be completed with household materials. You can view the complete list of lab supplies by viewing the sample.

Click to view a sample of this course, including the textbook, Table of Contents, Lab Supply List, and sample pages from the corresponding notebooks.

What Are Some of the Activities in This Earth Science Course?

Listed below are just a few of the many engaging hands-on activities in this course. Click the View Sample button to view sample lessons from the textbook, Notebooking Journal, Junior Notebooking Journal, the Table of Contents with a complete listing of all the topics and activities, and the Lab Supply List.

Create:

• A Galaxy Mobile
• A Goldilocks Zone
• A Globe and add features to it throughout the course!
• Maps
• Crystals

Use Hands-On Activities to Understand:

• Invisible Forces
• Tectonic Plate Movement
• Landforms
• Sunlight and Seasons
• Weather and Climate

Investigate:

• Soil
• Rocks
• Water
• Air
• Life

Discover:

• Unique Places on Earth and the Science Behind Them
• Cycles and Scientists

Journal:

• Personal Thoughts
• Fascinating Facts

And So Much More…

What is the Daily Schedule for Earth Science?

We have provided a detailed schedule for Exploring Creation with Earth Science in the front of each Notebooking Journal and Junior Notebooking Journal. This schedule specifically outlines what to read and what activities to complete.

In keeping with the other titles in the Young Explorer Series, the schedule is similar. On average, you should expect to spend about two weeks per lesson. There are 14 lessons in Exploring Creation with Earth Science, so the entire course takes about 28 weeks to complete. We encourage families to adapt the schedule to fit their needs. Since most school years are longer than 28 weeks, there is plenty of time to fit in family holidays and breaks as needed. Just like the other books in the Young Explorer Series, a Suggested Weekly Schedule is included in the Notebooking Journal and Junior Notebooking Journal.

Notebooking Journal for Exploring Creation with Earth Science

A perfect complement to Exploring Creation with Earth Science, the Earth Science Notebooking Journal provides everything your student needs to complete this study of earth science.

The Notebooking Journals can be used with multiple ages within a family with great ease. The Notebooking Journals are specifically designed with the elementary student in mind. They are fun and interactive with an abundance of colorful, hands-on activities to add to your child’s excitement with science.

This Notebooking Journal will serve as your child’s individual notebook, providing a place for them to complete every assignment in the text. Each lesson begins with a coloring page for the student to color while he or she listens to the reading of the text. These pages provide opportunities for active learning while reinforcing the lesson’s content. Following are pages with templates designed to encourage creative expression and written narration. The student can illustrate what they’ve learned and write a sentence or two about the topic.

Next, the student is given the opportunity to work with and learn key vocabulary words presented in the text. Also included are helpful and easy-to-follow graphics, engaging mini-books, areas for creative writing, crosswords, and much more. These learning activities are not only interesting, but they also increase the student’s retention of both the important terms and the subject matter presented in the lessons.

To make planning a breeze, a detailed schedule is included in the Notebooking Journal and Junior Notebooking Journal. This schedule lists the pages to read in the textbook and the pages to complete in the journal. You may view a sample by clicking here.

The Benefits of Using the Notebooking Journal?

Keeping a scientific notebook has always been a standard scientific practice. Apologia’s Notebooking Journal has been designed to:

• Facilitate retention and provide documentation of your student’s education. The unique personal written and artistic expressions incorporate both sides of the brain.
• Be flexible and allow for multilevel learning. A twelve-year-old student may write an essay and make an elaborate illustration, while a six-year-old may write one sentence with a stick-figure drawing
• Help students record experiences, observations, and thoughts
• Engage students in the scientific process
• Provide a written history that students can reference as they explore new subject areas
• Give your student a place where they can record and organize experiences and observations
• Provide a place to review their notes to create opinions and draw conclusions about the way their world works

What’s the Difference between the Notebooking Journal and Junior Notebooking Journal?

The regular Notebooking Journal for Exploring Creation with Earth Science is recommended for use with students who have mastered handwriting, can take notes, and enjoy upper elementary level activities. The Junior Notebooking Journals are designed for younger students who are still developing basic writing skills. These journals have wider writing lines and include the dotted mid-line to guide beginner writers.

The Notebooking Journal and Junior Notebooking Journal are designed to work together to help accommodate teaching multiple ages in your homeschool.

What Is Included in the Exploring Creation with Earth Science Notebooking Journal?

In this Notebooking Journal, you will find:

• A Suggested Schedule for completing the readings, notebooking assignments, activities, and experiments utilizing a two-day per week plan
• Templates for your student to record what he or she learned in each lesson, using both words and illustrations
• Coloring pages
• Creative templates for completing the Notebooking assignments
• Vocabulary activities to help learn important terms
• Project Pages and other sheets for your student to use to keep records of experiments, projects, and activities completed throughout the course
• Beautiful, full-color Miniature Books for your student to create, encouraging him or her to record facts and information learned in each lesson
• Helpful and engaging graphics to help your student visualize and understand concepts

Your child will treasure this Notebooking Journal as he makes it his very own with words and illustrations, reflecting all he has learned in his pursuit of science. Additionally, the journal will serve as your record of your student’s scientific endeavors throughout the year. When your child flips through his notebook, he will be reminded of the knowledge he has attained as he peruses the pages he has created.  A variety of activities include full-color mini-books, additional fun experiments, crosswords, and supplementary materials.

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