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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow- this might be my favorite post ever! I feel like it should be cross-posted in the homeschool section too. I am still on the fence about whether we middle through with DL or switch to homeschool completely.

Have any of you experienced folks used the Building Foundations for Scientific Understanding content? https://outskirtspress.com/BFSU1/

My adhd/ dysgraphic/ gifted child has desperately missed science education.  We have done all of the Mel science kits as a stop gap, but I need to be prepared to do more.

I was looking at some of the Great Courses, but I think they are too much plus they are expensive.

Thanks for any additional advice you can share![/quote]

I'm the PP with the ridiculously long posts (sorry).  I looked at BFSU and decided against it but can not, for the life of me, remember why.

What grade is your kid in?  Does he have a particular type of science he wants to learn about?  My 7th grader is my science lover, and is also a gifted kid with multiple disabilities (3E is that a thing?).  I can make suggestions for things he loved.  I didn't put all the things he did because I thought they would be too much for a 5th grader.

You can get some of the Great Courses on Audible.  They are way cheaper that way.  [/quote]

PP here- my sone is a rising 5th grader who reads at college level and writes at 2nd grade level (4th grade with a scribe).  He loves any science areas, but right now is most interested in chemistry, physics, aerobatics, botany, and geology.  He is not into audiobooks and prefers some visuals along with his content so we have been watching documentaries together.  Given how diverse his science interest are, I was thinking BFSU would be a solid foundation across areas.

I am also planning to try to address the writing anxiety by doing something fun (night zookeeper) for a while and then go back into something more structured like IEW to learn both note taking and writing.

I really appreciate the time you’ve take to respond.  I also have a rising 8th grader who is dyslexic and remediated above grade level so I am studying all of your suggestions.[/quote]

I'm the PP who did the single subject posts.

Your rising 5th grader sounds more like my middle son, who is 10 with very high math, science and reading skills, and a physical disability that makes writing and talking very hard.

I looked at BFSU again to remember why I didn't like it.   The issue wasn't the science.  Everyone seems to think it's excellent.  It was that it seems like a lot of work for the adult managing it.  You need to find the materials, and organize them, and choose the sequence of lessons. My science kid loves science.  He can spend hours on it in a single day, and he moves through material fast.  I worried that I wouldn't be able to stay ahead of him.  So, I chose things that were more open and go, where he could go ahead and do the next piece without waiting for me.

If you want other ideas, here are some things that have worked for us.

[b]Uzinggo[/b] -- This is a website that has an entire physics, biology, and chemistry curriculum taught through activities where you are manipulating things and solving puzzles.   It's very visual.  There are two levels, middle school and high school.  The content is solid, but the interface is good for younger, which can make it a great choice for a 2E kid.  I think that the high school level might be a really good choice. I didn't do it with my 2E kid, just because it requires a lot of motor skills (e.g. hitting tiny buttons, dragging and dropping) that are really hard for him, but he's also a kid who can't hold a pencil or eat with a regular spoon.

[b]Story of Science[b] These are just books, not curriculum, but they go through how science developed, and they have lots of beautiful pictures.  My kid found them fascinating.  We read them as part of our history, but they could also be science.

[/b]Lego robotics[b]. This has been really fun.  We have the Mindstorms EV3 set which I linked above, and the kids are learning a lot.

I have also been drooling over the [b]Supercharged Science Mastery Kits[/b] for a while.   I was torn between that and the Lego robotics at Christmas.  My understanding is that the kits are very hands on, but also written so that the kids can do the experiments pretty independently.

https://www.superchargedscience.com/shop/science-mastery/

Supercharged Science also has other materials that are supposed to be good, I just liked the really hands on stuff.

[b]Life of Fred[/b]. This is something you either love or you don't. My middle kid loves it, but he's a math kid.  He'd rather do math than anything else.  My kids who aren't mathy don't love it.  Life of Fred is mostly math, but it's got 2 books that apply preAlgebra skills to physics and biology, and a high school level chemistry book.  Unlike every other science material I'll suggest LOF isn't 100% secular, and he's got some weird points.  I wouldn't do the preAlgebra with econ books because he goes off on some weird libertarian tangents, or the college level math book because he introduces some things that aren't age appropriate for a young gifted kid, but I didn't find anything objectionable in the science books.  The physics and bio are just about the math of those two subjects.  The chem is a complete course.

[b]Real Science Odysssey[/b] This is what I picked for us for next year, because the kids wanted astronomy and it has astronomy.  But they have other subjects too.  It says that Level 1 is for elementary, but the samples looked too young, even for my youngest who is entering fifth and pretty much on grade level rather than advanced.  So I ordered Level 2 which is middle school/high school.  I haven't actually used it, just ordered it.

https://www.pandiapress.com/real-science-odyssey/

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