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Brand new philosophy, brand new books, brand new experiments, brand new worksheets! Teach your children to think like a scientist, to use the skills and practices that real scientists use. Each weekly experiment helps bring to life the scientific content read each week. Sonlight’s great books provide the context, while the experiments help students apply scientific practices and principles to the topics they read about each week.
Sonlight Science A will prepare your children to become future scientists by training them to think scientifically. Beyond studying classic scientific topics, Sonlight Science A creates a learning environment in which students can gain the skills and practices used by scientists and engineers to answer questions, solve problems, and innovate and improve their own designed solutions.
From the Solar System to human body systems, Sonlight Science A nurtures children’s natural curiosity and provides daily opportunities to explore the world around them. They will use real scientific skills and practices as they explore our natural earth: from weather, geology, natural habitats and animal life to what makes us ill and why we eat. Science A includes a high-level introduction to light and sound waves and other STEM topics that will prepare students for a lifetime of scientific curiosity, learning and application.
Each easy-to-complete experiment helps the topics you’ve read about that week bloom into practical, real-world experiences. Each experiment provides students with a topic-related question to explore. As they discover answers to the questions for themselves, they gain experience in solving problems independently. Do you know how plants drink? Or why we have seasons? Have fun watching for the many “aha!” moments this course will provide.
Instructor’s Guide
Each Sonlight science program is anchored by a customer-renowned Instructor's Guide. The IG provides the structure for your entire year—the framework for what books to read and when, and what experiments to do. 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
The Usborne Children's Encyclopedia provides an approachable introduction to our natural Earth. Students will read about weather, geology, habitats, animal life, the human body, the development of technology and more.
Enjoy an entertaining first-class flight through body and space, presented by the Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body and Lost in the Solar System.
Discover What Makes You Ill? through Usborne's clear presentation of illnesses, germs, how our bodies fight to return us to health, and what we can do to help our bodies stay healthy. Then catch up with Louis Pasteur in the biography, Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes, to find out why his study of rotten sugar beet juice revolutionizes the fields of medicine and biology.
In Light is All Around Us and Sound is All Around, students will gain a first introduction to wave energy, what light and sounds are, how they travel, and how our bodies are able to sense them.
Lift the flaps in Lift-the-flap Engineering for an interactive exploration of the field of engineering. Find out which type of engineers help planes and rockets fly, create remote controls and touch screens that operate, use mechanics to make work easier, program robots, build bridges and more.
Hooray for Inventors! (5-Day program) introduces your children to the people who developed well-known tools and machinery. This witty title shows them how innovators don't always get it right the first time, and how they build on and improve their own ideas and the ideas of others.
In Why Do People Eat? (5-Day program) explore the science of nutrition. Find out why our bodies need and process food, where it comes from, how we keep food safe and how to make healthy food choices.
Hands-on Science Experiments
Discover & Do: 1st Grade 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: 1st Grade 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 in an enjoyable and interactive way. 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 an 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 carry out an investigation 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.
With Sonlight Science A, your children learn by actually doing the science!
Science Supplies Kit
Most of the experiments in this program can be done with common household items, but to minimize prep time, we’ve created a Discover & Do: Science Supplies Kit that includes many of the supplies, templates, and worksheets you need to conduct each experiment. No planning necessary and minimal prep time!
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Sonlight Science K 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 A 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 world around them and prepare them for a bright and confident scientific future.
Note: The Children's Encyclopedia (Item AH04) is part of the History / Bible / Lit A package. If you are ordering the Science program as a stand-alone package, purchase The Children's Encyclopedia separately.
1 https://www.nextgenscience.org/voices-of-support 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.
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