SCIENCE G
Life Science (Formerly Science F for 2024)
Sonlight's Science G package includes everything you need to teach a full year (36 weeks) of Life Science and meets the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Designed for middle school students, our Life Science package will engage your children's curiosity and train them to think like a scientist while exploring cells, organ systems, genetics, ecology, and STEM topics.
Package Includes:
- Instructor's Guide (with Student Activity Sheets)
- Literature books
- Hands-on Science Experiments
- Experiment Supply Kit
- Experiment Videos - NEW for 2025
Instructor's Guide
Each Sonlight science program is anchored by a customer-renowned Instructor's Guide (IG). The IG provides the structure for your entire year—the framework for what books to read and when, what experiments to do and what videos to watch. No need to create your own lesson plans.
The IG also includes question prompts, explanations, hands-on activities (beyond the experiments), and additional notes to enhance the reading and reinforce what your students are learning.
Each IG includes a list of what supplies you will need both for the current week and the week to come. (Need to save a milk carton for next week? Now you know!)
Instructor's Guides in levels K-J also include Activity Sheets filled with questions and simple activities, charts, illustrations, and pictures to help your children remember what they've learned.
Overview of the Literature
From bones to genes to body systems, birth to getting old, The Complete Book of the Human Body covers it all. Bring Biology to life in Super Simple Biology—the ultimate bitesize study guide.
Discover why Darwinism—like Marxism and Freudianism before it—is headed for extinction in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design.
You'll meet Antony van Leeuwenhoek in All in a Drop and discover how this self-taught scientist was the first to observe the microbial life in and around us. Then help your child better understand how food fuels and affects our bodies in Are You What You Eat? (5-day program) a book that uses color and fun presentation to communicate nutritional information in a fun and eye-catching way.
Hands-on Science Experiments
Discover & Do: Level G Science Experiments provide weekly experiments that help students explore the reading topics even further. Each experiment relates directly to the weekly reading material for a more linear progression from reading to doing. The guided exploration helps students dig deeper and reinforces the concepts learned in the reading while providing an experience that trains them to think like scientists.
With Discover & Do: Level G Science Experiments, your children will not just memorize the steps of the scientific process. Rather, students will conduct simple, engaging, hands-on experiments at home and use the scientific method to explore their world enjoyably and interactively. Each experiment begins with an overview of the key concepts, so the instructor has a big-picture view of the main goals of the lesson. As you work through the experiment together, you will discuss and discover how these concepts work in the real world.
Experiments are designed to help guide your students through exploration, rather than simply showing them a demonstration of a scientific principle. Each experiment begins with an observation and a question—something to be curious about. Your students then make a prediction based on their observation and investigate to see if their ideas were correct. As they draw conclusions from their experiments, they will be able to adjust their thinking and gain an appreciation for the scientific process (and principles!) they just experienced for themselves.
Science Supplies Kit
We've created a Discover & Do: Science Supplies Kit that includes many of the supplies you need to conduct each experiment along with some additional household items. We gather many of the items to save you time and money. You no longer need to buy a bag of soil, for example, when you only need a cup. Items are consumable and can be shared between multiple students.
Experiment Videos NEW for 2025
But the learning doesn't stop there! Your students will then make connections to broader scientific ideas and go further with fun ways to apply and appreciate what they have discovered. The Science G package also includes the Discover & Do: Level G Science Experiment Videos. Included in digital-only format, these highly entertaining videos reenact all the 36 experiments your students will perform, and reinforce the concepts observed during the experiment. Filled with fascinating activities and peppered with humor, the new Discover & Do Videos bring science to life!
With Sonlight Science G, your children learn by actually doing the science!
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Sonlight Science G is designed to follow the classic Sonlight model of learning (reading, discussing, and doing) while also adhering to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). These research-based, up-to-date science standards are simply good instructional practice. Dozens of scientists, esteemed scientific institutions, and science-based businesses have put their support behind these standards.1 Now you have even more assurance that Sonlight Science provides an outstanding science education at home.
Sonlight's Science G helps prepare students to think for themselves, evaluate different perspectives, and innovate solutions. Your students will use key scientific and engineering principles to explore ideas that connect across all subjects: cause and effect, patterns, structure and function, systems, stability and change, cycles and more. Come play with us! Open your children's eyes to the truths of the world around them and prepare them for a bright and confident scientific future.
1 https://www.nextgenscience.org NGSS is a registered trademark of Achieve. Neither Achieve nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.
