It’s going to be better, higher-quality than a video blog, and I’m going to show you everything we do for Biology this year, chapter by chapter — each experiment and drawing that we make. I will be posting the videos exclusively in my Unit Study Treasure Vault each month, in addition to lots of other things I add each month for other subjects.
I will be starting the year by showing you my Classification of Animals that I have on my wall. I spent hundreds of hours 10 years ago, categorizing large animal pictures into kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. I will show you the two columns of animals that are carnivores. I will show you all the other major categories of animals. Your understanding of taxonomy for biology will never be the same. I just invented this. No one else has this. So I will be showing you visually how to classify animals. If your high school students are confused about animal classification, this alone is worth the price of joining the Vault. Elementary students will also benefit greatly.
When we gather pond scum, you will see my children running to the pond, and you will see me scooping up the scum and being real, like I always am. You will see our experiments. This is helpful for those of you homeschoolers who are not doing the experiments. It is as if you are doing the virtual experiments with me.
I show you how to make the Biology chapters into elementary-level unit studies for your younger children. For example, the first chapter of the book will be a Microscope Unit Study. If you have no children in high school, you will have enough information to study microscopes with your elementary-aged children.
Here is when I plan to post the Biology Video Blog chapters:
October 1, 2012:
- Classification of Animals
- Microscope Unit Study (Chapter 1)
November 1, 2012:
- Pond Life Unit Study: Part 1 (Chapter 2)
- Pond Life Unit Study: Part 2 (Chapter 3)
- Mushroom Unit Study (Chapter 4)
December 1, 2012:
- Chemistry Unit Study (Chapter 5)
January 1, 2013:
- The Cell Unit Study (Chapter 6)
February 1, 2013:
- DNA Unit Study (Chapter 7)
- Genetics Unit Study (Chapter 8)
March 1, 2013:
- Creation/Evolution (Chapter 9)
- Ecology Unit Study (Chapter 10)
April 1, 2013:
- Invertebrates Unit Study (Chapter 11)
- Crustacean Unit Study (Chapter 12)
- Spider Unit Study (Chapter 12)
- Insect Unit Study (Chapter 12)
May 1, 2013:
- Vertebrates Unit Study (Chapter 13)
- Plants Unit Study: Part 1 (Chapters 14)
- Classification of Plants (Chapters 14)
June 1, 2013:
- Plants Unit Study: Part 2 (Chapters 15)
- Reptiles Unit Study (Chapter 16)
- Birds Unit Study (Chapter 16)
- Mammals / Animal Classification (Chapter 16)
These are the dates I can post the videos, not how long you should take on the chapters. For example, chapters 1-4 should take you 8 weeks. What we did for September and October (8 weeks) will be posted on October 1st and November 1st. Hopefully that makes sense.
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