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DIVE Self-Paced e-Learning Course: Earth Science 12 month subscription

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Grade 7-8
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Product Overview

  • Video lessons, interactive homework, and auto grading!
  • Virtual lab videos with printable lab manual
  • Free question & answer service with Dr. Shormann
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DIVE Self-Paced e-Learning Course: Earth Science 12 month subscription

Description

This DIVE Self-Paced Earth Science Course by Dr. Shormann is biblically based, independent, and typically recommended for junior high, though it’s easily modified for a high school credit.

Unlike other DIVE self-paced science courses, this one has no required Textbook or reading assignments. There are 56 Video Lectures total (featuring colorful pictures and graphics), which provide two 20-minute lectures per week. These have all the required information, which is always reinforced through digital worksheets and flashcards. Optional fill-in-the-blank lecture notes can be printed off as well.

There is also 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 digital platform is user-friendly—assignments are clearly organized with links embedded for efficiency. 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:

  • Expert video lectures
  • Digital flashcards with quiz features for learning definitions
  • Interactive lesson reviews
  • Weekly quizzes & quarterly exams
  • Auto graded/recorded assignments
  • Virtual Lab videos
  • Printable Lab Manual
  • Step-by-step video Solutions to ensure understanding

The Teacher Guide included has a “Getting Started” video, info 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 should be taking Pre-Algebra or higher in math. This course can be modified for high school credit by giving quarterly reviews as exams and adding quarterly reports on related topics. 

Publisher's Description of DIVE Self-Paced e-Learning Course: Earth Science 12 month subscription
Hosted in our state-of the-art eLearning campus, this self-paced course offers several advantages over the CD and Download formats. All homework, facts practice, and quarterly reviews are interactive learning activities that are completed online, automatically graded, and the grades are stored in an online gradebook. Parents can reset assignment and change grades anytime.

Also, there is no CD to lose or damage, and you can access your course anywhere, from any computer, tablet, or iOS device. 

Although this is a 32 week course, this subscription is for 12 months which allows plenty of time to complete the course and allows extra time for planning, vacations, illness, etc. 

DIVE Earth Science teaches all the concepts found in a typical middle grades Earth Science curriculum, plus a whole lot more!  With a special emphasis on the ever-broadening field of flood geology, this course teaches students to look for the pattern of Creation, Flood, and Ice Age that is present  everywhere on our Earth’s surface.
DIVE Earth Science  trains your child to enjoy God’s great Earth while equipping them to stand against evolutionism and Old-Earth superstitions that infect natural history displays at most museums and geologic wonders like the Grand Canyon. The 32-week course is broken down into four major sections: Earth Science Basics, Flood Geology, Limnology and Oceanography, and Astronomy and Meteorology.
Category Description for DIVE Science Digital Courses

Dr. Shormann’s Self-Paced DIVE Science Courses check all the boxes! They’re completely online, affordable, biblically based, college prep, and so user-friendly!

Each comprehensive full-year course is based on a flexible 32-week schedule with embedded daily assignments that include engaging reading from a DIVE Internet Textbook, expert video lectures, interactive worksheets and digital flashcards, step-by-step video solutions, virtual lab videos, a printable Lab Manual, weekly quizzes & quarterly exams, and auto grading and recording of all assignments. All material lays a strong Christian foundation with a young-earth, creation viewpoint and Scripture throughout.

During the Video Lessons, which are taught on a digital blackboard, students take notes and work interactively. An excellent digital Textbook is included with every course (except Earth Science) and features engaging graphics and videos. Those who prefer a traditional hard copy textbook can use one from Dr. Shormann’s recommended list (which includes Abeka, BJU, Apologia, and more). A specific course syllabus has been designed for each physical textbook on the list, making the correlation easy.

The Lab portion of each course can be completed virtually with videos or in-person with hands-on materials (most courses have a corresponding lab kit available as separate purchase). Lab Manuals are printable and video solutions for labs help ensure concepts are understood.

Although courses provide all instruction & grading, parents need to monitor progress and ensure assignments are completed as instructed. The Teacher Guides included offer everything needed for the course to run smoothly, including setup instructions, tips for lessons and labs, grading information, modification for learning issues, reading supplement suggestions, and more. Parents do have the ability to change grades and reset assignments as needed. Q & A support is always available with Dr. Shormann.

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