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Novare Life Science Lab Kit
- Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.
Students will more easily be able to complete the labs found in the Apprentice Companion with this lab kit that includes most of the harder to find supplies. Contents include glass tubes (4), beakers (6), bottles (4), rubber stopper, small glass jars with lids (5), graduated cylinder, vinyl tubbing, lab apron, nitrile gloves (6 pr), safety glasses, insect net and killing jar, insect pins, dropper bottle, brine shrimp eggs, sulfur, sugar packets (2), carbon, copper electrode, Copper II Sulfate, Iodine solution, pony beads, radish seeds, and the following Guides: Wild Flowers Golden Guide® and Insect Golden Guide®.
Use our custom-designed Novare Life Science lab kit to help your students learn scientific concepts through hands-on experiments! With this kit, save time by getting the harder-to-find materials to complete the experiments in the Novare Life Science curriculum, The Apprentice's Companion for Life Science.
Home Science Tools works closely together with Novare Science authors to ensure a valuable learning experience for your inspired student!
Use the Novare Life Science Program and our custom lab kit to:
- Combine up-to-date science with a Christian worldview and classical educational philosophy.
- Learn skills and knowledge through direct modeling, mentoring and practicing.
- Test scientific hypotheses with hands-on laboratory work.
- Conceptualize science through a multi-disciplinary environment: literature, poetry, history, and art.
With this kit, the student will engage in these hands-on activities:
- Observe the properties of water
- Draw conclusions from an enzyme-facilitated reaction and verify several scientific claims
- Measure and record the process and products of fermentation
- Perform dilutions and collect data to grow brine shrimp
- and so many more!
Written to reflect the modern-day study of biology, Novare Life Science addresses important large-scale topics and key micro-scale topics, treated at an appropriate grade level. With minimal mathematics, it is the perfect text for middle school students of the 21st century.
Novare (no-VAH-ray) is Latin, meaning to renew or begin again. The authors feel that science education in our country needs to be renewed using research, scientific evidence and forward-thinking strategies while keeping God at the helm. Students are taught to see God in creation, while learning current scientific theories that support an old-earth creation. Using a mastery approach, students learn fewer topics in more depth than typical courses. Memorization and review are key with minimal written work. Science, math, science history, and English language usage are integrated. Several Novare courses are used by Memoria Press for their academic rigor and are a good choice for students who need challenging science courses and college prep. Each course offers a recommended downloadable Digital Resource that includes assessments and course planning resources that are helpful for homeschool families, co-ops and classrooms. Resources are reproducible for classroom use. Self-created lab journals and reports are suggested to prepare students for high school and college science material. Also available is a helpful Student Lab Report Handbook for more instruction. See each individual course for content and available supports.
With minimal mathematics, Life Science provides sixth grade students an in-depth look at life science from the structures and features of different types of organisms to cellular and molecular biology. Looking at the scope of content, this course would also meet the needs of 7th-8th grade students.
The Text begins with introductory information for teachers that explains the Novare’s core principles of Wonder, Integration, and Mastery, and the Kingdom Perspective. It also gives an overview of support resources and using the text. Following this is an introduction written to the student. I appreciate how this section explains the course goals of mastery and retention, and then provides the student the study tools and routines they will need to succeed in the course. Topically, students begin with an introduction to life science and learn the scientific method, scale and goals of life science and scientific measurement. The following chapters build on this foundational information and cover molecules and cells with an overview of biochemistry, the human body systems, genetics and plant and animal reproduction, photosynthesis, metabolism, and homeostasis, human and plant sensory systems, ecosystems, climate and the biosphere, major biomes of the world, biodiversity, and evolutionary theory and variations, natural selection, and adaption. The author makes a strong case for Christian students studying and understanding evolutionary theory with a clearly explained chart explaining how various positions (Young Earth Creationism, Old Earth Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolutionary Creationism) interpret scripture, view the age of the earth/universe, and view the creation of living things. Families unfamiliar with Novare Science, should note the core philosophy of Novare Science is that science education in our country needs to be renewed using research, scientific evidence and forward-thinking strategies while keeping God at the helm. Students are taught to see God in creation, while learning current scientific theories that support an old-earth creation.
The Apprentice’s Companion for Life Science contains 26 activities. Part experiment book, and part field manual, lab journal and sketch book, students are prompted to form hypotheses, record data, and evaluate the hypotheses to determine if they are supported by the data. The book also includes illustrations, poems and quotes from respected scientists and naturalists. Time for activities varies from a few minutes or a class period to several days of observation and documentation. Not reproducible, each student will need their own copy.
Parents, Teachers, and Co-op Leaders will appreciate the Digital Resources which includes printable, reproducible resources in PDF or Microsoft Word Format. Files include a lessons schedule and sample lesson plan, weekly reviews and quizzes beginning in week 2-3, semester exams, answer keys, and sample answers to verbal questions. While it may be tempting to skip the weekly assessments, it is vital to remember that the weekly, cumulative assessments are the central component of Novare’s mastery-learning strategy. An email address is required for the Digital Resources. You will receive an email in 1-2 business days with information to assess the digital downloads.
Novare Life Science is an academically rigorous course that focuses on content mastery, and not just the cram-pass—forget cycle that is common in middle and high school sciences. Students completing this course will be well prepared for college preparatory science courses in their high school course of study. ~Deanne
Product Format: | Other |
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Brand: | Home Science Tools |
Grades: | 6-8 |
Length in Inches: | 12.5625 |
Width in Inches: | 12.125 |
Height in Inches: | 11.0625 |
Weight in Pounds: | 8.05 |