*I designed this schedule in WEB layout. (Microsoft Word: tool bar: view: web layout). You may have to
adjust the tables if you want to view it in print layout.
Exploration Education graphic and BrainPOP logo used with permission.
Notes about the library, supplies I need, etc. are added for my convenience. Feel free to delete.
How to use this schedule: Move down through the topics. Do the main lesson from the spine (either or
both) Exploration Education and/or Exploring Creation with Physical Science and then do the activities to
the right as desired (printables, activities, kits, movies, etc.).
Once you've moved through all of the columns in a row, then move down to the next row and so on.
This schedule is meant to be a "buffet".
Columns that extend into more than one row are meant to be used as desired during the main topic
grouping.
Question: Why do you schedule in SO many books and activities?
Answer: I believe that the best retention is obtained by using a variety of sources and activities. It's also
interesting and beneficial (at least for us) to read or hear about a topic presented several different ways.
AND… a lot of the items add to the "fun factor".  Sometimes Otter doesn't get something the way it's
presented in one book, but then after seeing it in a video, or learning about it in an activity (or
whatever), suddenly the light bulb will go on! We LIKE learning about the same thing via "different
voices" and methods of instruction. We also love science. Having said that though, this is an ambitious
schedule (as most of my schedules are, if you are familiar with them). Treat it like a buffet and don't get
bogged down in all the "stuff".
Question: How do I use Exploration Education and Exploring Creation with Physical Science at the same
time?
Answer: I think we are going to probably do alternate between the two. In other words, maybe we'll do
chapter 1 in Exploration Education and then module 9 in Exploring Creation. Or we may just do an entire
section (chapters 1-5 in Exploration Education) and then the corresponding chapters in Exploring
Creation.
Question: Didn't you just do physics awhile back? Physical science seems to repeat some of the topics.
Answer: We did do a brief overview of physics a couple of years ago, but I didn't get to a lot of the extras
I had planned on using at the time and didn't really delve as deeply as I would have liked to. Some of the
topics in this schedule will be a bit of review, while others will either be new or explored in more depth
(and at a higher level of understanding).
Books
* Otter has already read a
few of the books listed below
when we briefly studied
More books/For Fun
Reading
These are literature
assignments I've
Spine program #1:
physics. However, this is a
perfect time to review and
re-read some of the books
we have on the shelves!
scheduled to accompany
our science
lessons/topics. Some of
the choices are purely for
fun, only containing an
element or two about
what we are learning.
Others expand on a
lesson by adding a
historical element or
other connection.
Exploration Education Physical Science Advanced
Click here to see a table of contents.
We will probably NOT be doing a lot of the student notebook that
comes with this program. Most of the writing Otter will do this
year for science will be in the Exploring Creation with Physical
Science Lapbook Journal instead.
*NOTE: In the schedule for ME I included screenshots of the table
of contents for each chapter. I do not have permission to post
Exploration Education's chapter headings so I've taken those out.
left in the very first one as a sample so you can see how that
worked, in case you wish to recreate what I did (or just type it all
in).
The Basics / Intro to Physical Science
Millions to Measure
Library
Air
Paddington Takes the
Air Library
Just a good excuse to read a fun
book. ;-) Otter still loves these
kinds of stories.
Water
A Drop Of Water Library
Earth
The Librarian Who
Measured the Earth
Library
Journey to the Center
of the Earth Just a good
excuse to read some
literature that has a thread
of a connection (at least in
the title!) to what we are
studying in science. ;-)
Library
Weather
The Weather Book
(Wonders of Creation, Vol.
1) *Christian book
Have at home
(Free study guide)
The AMS Weather Book:
The Ultimate Guide to
America's Weather
Library
Electric Storm (Magic
School Bus Chapter Books,
No. 14) (if we want to do
the lapbook)
Library
Hurricane & Tornado (DK
Eyewitness Books) Library
Tornado: Nature in Action
Library
The Magic School Bus
Chapter Book #05: Twister
Trouble (if we want to do
the lapbook)
Library
Forces and Motion
Chapter 1
Science and Forces
Screenshot sample below: You will need to either create your own
screenshots or type in the info if you want to see what you are
studying in Exploration Education during each topic.
How to Think Like a
Scientist: Answering
Questions by the Scientific
Method
A solid introduction to the
scientific method. Not too
exciting though with black
and white cartoon
illustrations and a storyline about raising chickens.
Have at home
Cal and the Amazing
Anti-Gravity Machine
Library
The Ocean Of Truth:
The Story Of Sir Isaac
Newton *Christian
book
Order
Also in my Timeline history
schedule
Investigating the Scientific
Method with Max Axiom,
Super Scientist
Comic book/graphic novel
Have at home
Books for Module 11:
This series of comic books will
probably appeal more to a boy than
a girl. I've included them as a quick,
easy and fun read for Otter. He likes
them.
Nicolaus Copernicus,
the Earth Is a Planet
Chapter 2
Library
Chapter 3
Also in my Timeline history
schedule
Graphic Discoveries: Isaac
Newton and the Laws of
Motion
Google preview
Comic book/graphic novel
Order
Also in my Timeline history schedule
Or
Starry Messenger:
Galileo Galilei Have at
home
Also in my Timeline history
schedule
Chapter 4
Isaac Newton and His
Apple: Dead Famous
Johannes Kepler: Giant
of Faith and Science
*Christian book
Order
Also in my Timeline history
schedule
For Module 12:
How Do You Lift a Lion?
This book is very simple and
meant for young students, but
Otter likes it and it gives an
illustrated introduction to forces.
Chapter 5
Have at home
Michael Faraday
(Trailblazers)
*Christian book
Preview
Also in my Timeline history
schedule
Fatal Forces (Horrible
Science)
Order
Awesome Experiments in
Force & Motion
Google preview
This is a great book full of short &
easy tricks that help you learn some
science concepts. If you can't get the
book, at least take a peek at the
Google link above and play around
with a few of the "tricks" that you
can see in the preview.
Library
A Crash Course in Forces
and Motion with Max
Axiom, Super Scientist
Order
Machines and Energy
Chapter 6
The Powerful World of
Energy With Max Axiom,
Super Scientist
Order
The Wright Brothers:
Inventors Whose Ideas
Really Took Flight
Library
Also in my Timeline history
schedule
Chapter 7
Eyewitness: Energy
Have at home
(browse through)
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Electricity
Chapter 10
Charged Up: The Story of
Electricity Very easy
picture book
Have at home (Because it's SO
easy, I wouldn't be scheduling it in
How Ben Franklin Stole
the Lightning (Easy
picture book)
Have at home
except that I have it at home.)
The Shocking World of
Electricity with Max
Axiom, Super Scientist
Order
Electricity (DK
Eyewitness Books)
Have at home
(browse through)
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
The Manga Guide to
Electricity
Library
*Takes the Lord's name in vain in
one of the speech bubbles (as in "Oh
my G*d).
Awesome Experiments in
Electricity & Magnetism
Google preview
Library
Shocking Electricity
(Horrible Science)
Order
Magnetism
To go with chapter
20.2 in Exploring
Education
The Attractive Story of
Magnetism with Max
Axiom, Super Scientist
Order
Chapter 15
The Mystery of the
Periodic Table *We've
already read this for chemistry,
but Otter may read it by himself
again.
Chapter 16
Amazing Magnetism
(Magic School Bus Chapter
Book)
(if we want to do the
lapbook)
Library
For chapter 20.2 in
Exploring Education
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chemistry: Matter
Chapter 19
The Periodic Table:
Elements with Style! Have
at home
*We've already read this for
chemistry, but Otter may read it on
by himself again.
Chapter 20
Chapter 22
Mixtures and Compounds
Chapter 23
Dynamic World of
The Adventures of
Chemical Reactions with
Adam the Atom
Max Axiom, Super Scientist Google preview
Kind of silly and simple, but
Order
Chapter 24
helpful for remembering some
specifics.
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chemical Chaos (Horrible
Science)
Order
Chapter 27
Sound
Chapter 28
Adventures in Sound With Alexander Graham
Max Axiom, Super Scientist Bell: Setting the Tone
Order
for Communication
Library
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Awesome Experiments in
Light & Sound
Google preview
Library
Sounds Dreadful (Horrible
Science)
Order
Light
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
The Illuminating World of
Light with Max Axiom,
Super Scientist
Order
Chapter 33
Frightening Light (Horrible
Science)
Order
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Lise Meitner: Had the
Right Vision about
Nuclear Fission
Library
Also in my Timeline history
schedule