This DIVE Self-Paced Chemistry Course by Dr. Shormann is biblically based, independent, and very college-prep! The platform is user-friendly—assignments are clearly laid out each week with links embedded for efficiency. Students study topics like atomic and molecular bonding, chemical reactions and equations, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and more. Although the course is set up on a 32-week schedule, it is flexible and self-paced. For an honors course, plan about 1.5 hours per day, 4-5 days per week. For a standard course, 4 days per week for an hour a day.
Each lesson consists of several parts:
- Digital flashcards with quiz features for learning definitions
- Online Textbook with colorful & animated graphics
- Expert Video Lectures (about 20 minutes each)
- Interactive lesson reviews (auto graded/recorded)
- Weekly quizzes & quarterly exams (auto graded/recorded)
- Virtual Lab videos
- Printable lab manual
- Step-by-step video Solutions to ensure understanding
There is a 30-minute Lab video each week with printable lab manual pages (worksheets and lab exercises) and correlating video solutions to ensure understanding. For those working out the labs in person, a lab kit from Nature’s Workshop, which includes most of the needed materials, is available here.
The Teacher Guide included has a “Getting Started” video, information on using the course for honors or standard credit, information on grading, an online gradebook, recommended additional reading, and more. Access is for 1 student for 12 months, but deeply discounted sibling subscriptions can be purchased directly from the company at any time after (time extensions on courses are also very reasonably priced!).
Students must be taking Algebra 2 or higher. Completion of this course qualifies for 1 Chemistry with Lab credit (honors or standard) and prepares students for the AP Chemistry Exam and CLEP Chemistry Exam.
