Discovering Design with Earth Science

About this curriculum

Discovering Design with Earth Science is a laboratory-based earth science course can be used in either eighth or ninth grade. With roughly 55 hours of laboratory instruction in the course, students complete very detailed experiments related to the geosphere. Unless you are using this course with someone else and they have the Answer Key and Tests manual you may want to order the set not just the textbook Recorded Classes are available for this subject. The classes are taught by Mrs. McKeeman. There are two recordings per chapter of the the textbook. This laboratory-based earth science course can be used for either eighth or ninth grade.  Most homeschooled students should be ready for it in eighth grade, but privately- and publicly-schooled students will be more comfortable with it in ninth grade.  It covers the general properties of the earth’s geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.  Students learn about all the sections of the geosphere (such as core, mantle, crust, etc.) and then they study each in more detail.  When studying the earth’s crust, they learn about…