Middle school & HIGH SCHOOL

Sciences

BIOLOGY 

Discovering Design with Biology from Berean Builders is a comprehensive laboratory-based high school biology course, ideal for your college-bound student. With 180 hours of instruction, 16 units and 40 hands-on experiments, covering household, dissection, and microscope labs, this is a thorough introduction to how living organisms are designed and classified, how they interact with one another, and how they interact with their physical environment. Throughout the course, your student will see that life is the result of design and that organisms have been given the ability to adapt to their surroundings, as well as learn to identify the problems associated with the modern evolutionary synthesis. "Comprehension Check" questions and experiments are provided throughout each chapter and important scientific terms and vocabulary are underlined and defined. Each chapter ends with review questions to be completed before taking the chapter test. 

Concepts covered include the chemical processes for life, the structures of RNA and DNA, cell design, and photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and cellular reproduction processes. After a thorough survey of the different kinds of organisms found in nature: archaea, bacteria, protists, fungi, invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants, your student will then learn about ecosystems and the biogeochemical cycles that keep environments hospitable to life.  

Labs include extracting DNA from fruit, examining the effects of temperature and pH on enzymes, exploring osmosis and diffusion, building a pedigree, culturing bacteria, growing and examining fungi, identifying the stages of mitosis, studying live bacteria that were cultured by the student, identifying budding in yeast, and analyzing the microscopic structure of plants and animals. There are also four dissection experiments: the earthworm, crayfish, fish, and frog.

Anatomy & Physiology

 Explore the design of the human body from a creation perspective using Introduction to Anatomy & Physiology Volume 1 Set. From the simplest parts to some of the most complex functions, your students will learn about the Musculoskeletal, Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Nervous systems and discover that the design of the human body cannot possibly be an accident. Five lessons per week take approximately 30 to 45 minutes.  

 Explore the design of the human body from a creation perspective using Introduction to Anatomy & Physiology Volume 2 Set. From the simplest parts to some of the most complex functions, your students will learn about the Reproductive, Lymphatic, Renal, Endocrine, Integumentary, and Digestive Systems and discover that the design of the human body cannot possibly be an accident. Five lessons per week take approximately 30 to 45 minutes.   

History

America the Beautiful

It combines the flexibility and richness of a unit study with the simplicity of a textbook-based approach to history. Daily lessons guide your middle-school student chronologically through American history, with an emphasis on key events, people, and places.

The 2-volume text includes the course instructions and easy-to-follow daily directions that children are often able to follow independently. Each of the thirty units has five lessons. You can complete the curriculum in one year by doing one lesson per day for 150 days during your school year. Depending on how many activities you assign, most students will need 45-90 minutes to complete one lesson.

 At the end of each lesson, four to six activities are provided from which parents can choose which they'd like to assign. One special family activity, like an arts and crafts project, recipe, or other multi-age activity, is also assigned each week.

Government & Economics

 Explore United States government---federal, state, and local---from a biblical perspective! This half-year government and optional half-year English high school credit course equips students to understand backgrounds to our government, the Constitution, and issues facing our nation today.  

Economics is relevant everywhere, from political speeches to the daily decisions students make. Give teens the education to understand what's going on in the world around them with this important one-semester high school elective. Emphasizing faith in God and trusting His Word, students will learn how being knowledgeable about economics will help them become a better steward of the money God provides as well as a valuable, informed contributor to the economy on the personal, household, local, national, and international level. Exploring Economics reasserts the importance of the free market system, providing a clear explanation of terms and concepts. 

US History

 Provides guidance for individual and group assessments that correct and strengthen students' historical thinking and inform the teacher's instruction. It suggests methods and discussions for helping students through historical debates and points of view from a biblical worldview and for grasping historical causation.  

World History

Notgrass History's Exploring World History curriculum covers creation through the present day for a full-year high school world history course written from a Christian perspective.

Each unit is filled with enjoyable chapters and many full-color photographs of archival images, artifacts, and locations. Students will read narrative-based chapters that cover some of the world's most important events, issues, and people. This book also references classic literature (in separate books that are not included) that help bring to life the time periods they are studying. Units begin with a summary and list of lessons, memory work, books used, and a project. Each lesson ends with readings from the book In Their Words, additional literature assignments, and instructions for questions and quizzes (quizzes and tests themselves are in the sold-separately Exploring World History Student Review Pack

This updated 2014 edition features hundreds of color illustrations and photographs. In addition to a thorough survey of Western Civilization, it offers expanded coverage of Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

15 Units in each volume for a total of 30 units; 75 lessons in each book for a total of 150 lessons; 50-60 minutes on each subject each day (total of 2.5-3 hours per day). This course, when all assignments are completed, provides 1 year of credit in world history, 1 year of credit in English, and 1 year of credit of Bible. NASB Scripture used.