Today was our first day back from Christmas break, and our first
day of formal science since we finished Real Science Odyssey:
Chemistry in November. We won’t normally be doing science on
Wednesdays, but Alex and I were both eager to get started with
our new subject. Appropriately enough, in our first lesson we
watched a video which is essentially an exciting commercial for
the study of earth science. It got us nicely fired up. As I’ve
mentioned before, we had some issues of fit with our chemistry
curriculum. I liked the experiments, but the text often seemed
simplistic and condescending. On the other hand, more advanced
texts typically come with writing requirements that Alex isn’t
ready for. So we’ve known for a while that our next approach to
science would need more customization. Fortunately, before we
started to build an earth science program from scratch I
stumbled on Intellego unit studies. They offer “core curriculum
units” in geology, weather, and astronomy – a great foundation
for a year studying ea