The Novare Accelerated Studies in Physics and Chemistry Student Edition provides students with clear objectives for each chapter, clearly explained text, and colorful illustrations. Designed for accelerated or “honors” students, this course is approximately 80% physics and 20 % basic chemistry, the mastery approach provides fewer topics at greater depth and pacing. The course begins with evaluating the differences between knowledge, truth, claims, theories, and hypotheses, concluding with scientific methodology. Scientific notation, metric prefixes, unit conversions, keeping a lab journal, and the writing of lab reports are essential skills that students will thoroughly learn in this text. The text also includes experiments with notes to the student (no teacher instruction), appendices, and valuable introductions to the student and teacher. Written from a Biblical worldview, the author believes in the validity of current scientific theory, making this course an academically rigorous option for homeschool families.
Accelerated Studies in Physics and Chemistry 2nd Edition
Product Overview
- Academically rigorous course that uses a mastery approach of teaching fewer topics with more depth and cumulative reviews
- Students are taught to see God in creation, while learning current scientific theories and an old earth timeline
- Core Text used in the Novare Accelerated Studies and Chemistry Program
- Requires successful completion of Algebra 1
Description
ASPC is an ideal first science course designed for 9th grade accelerated or "honors" students. These are students who love science, are strong in math, and aspire to a technical career or college program. Freshmen who have completed Algebra I (for example, in 8th grade) are typically best suited to this book. The math is Algebra I level, but exercises are intentionally a little more challenging.
Textbooks feature a clear objectives list at the beginning of each chapter—the student's best friend, so students know exactly what they are accountable to know. Also, answers to calculation exercises are provided right on the same page because of our belief that students need those answers when they are working the problems. This means that homework is not part of their course grade, another unique method that we advocate. Use homework as a learning opportunity, a time to make mistakes and wrestle through to the right answer, not as an assessment of student learning, and not as a padding for poor test grades.
Finally, in the spirit of "drawing students upward into the adult world of science," the six lab experiments for this book emphasize procedures and skills used in real science labs. Scientific notation, metric prefixes, unit conversions, keeping a lab journal, and the writing of lab reports are essential skills that students will thoroughly learn in this text.
Novare Accelerated Studies in Physics & Chemistry (ASPC) is the first course in the Novare Science High School Accelerated Pathway, which takes a physics-first approach to science. Successful completion of Algebra 1 is a prerequisite. Students will encounter math concepts such as scientific notation, unit conversions, metric prefixes, solving for an unknown variable, and significant digits. ASPC includes a full Physics course, similar to the Novare Introductory Physics, but completes the physics in roughly 6 months, allowing students to study introductory Chemistry. Upon completion of this course, students are well prepared to take Chemistry for Accelerated Students.
Novare employs a
mastery approach to learning science where students are taught how to learn,
master, and retain what they learn. A curriculum that uses this approach covers
fewer topics and covers them more deeply. This text also integrates learning by
combining skills in the areas of science, math, science history, and English
language usage. This text is written from a Biblical worldview and seeks to
help students see God's work in the world. Though designed from a creationist
perspective, the author holds to the view that the world is billions of years old
and teaches current science theory.
Required resources include the Accelerated Studies in Physics and Chemistry Student Edition, Digital Resources, Experiments for Introductory Physics and ASPC, and the Solutions Manual. Optional, but recommended is the Student Lab Handbook. There is no Lab Kit, but the convenient Introductory Physics Lab Kit contains most of the supplies for five of the experiments, which are completed in this course and the Novare Introductory Physics.
| Product Format: | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Grade: | 9 |
| Brand: | Novare Science and Math |
| ISBN: | 9780998983349 |
| Length in Inches: | 9.75 |
| Width in Inches: | 6.75 |
| Height in Inches: | 1.125 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 2.45 |