Experience Biology - Crew Review

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Experience Biology: Upper Level from the Journey Homeschool Academy is a Christian curriculum for homeschool families who want high quality education plus an engaging hands-on experience. After setting up the student account, the Journey Homeschool Academy emails the weekly lesson, and after it has been completed, the next week’s lesson will be available. Allow me to share with you how it works.

First, students download and print the Student Guide which contains lesson outlines as well as the Student Lab Guide which contains instructions and assignments for all labs in the course.

Next, students watch two engaging video lessons for every weekly module to help them understand new concepts. While watching these video lessons, students complete the guidebook pages to help them grasp important concepts, learn new terms, and help them learn note taking skills.

Then, students take a weekly comprehensive quiz. This quiz is automatically graded and students must score 70% to pass. The quiz will show student’s which answers were correct and which answers were wrong; but when they get one wrong, it does not give them the correct answer. When they get one wrong, it would be helpful to note what the correct answer was so the student can learn from their mistake.

Next, students watch the lab video and complete the lab lesson. Each week, students conduct a hands-on lab experiment and are asked to upload a lab report. The Student Lab Guide gives detailed instructions for what is to be included in the lab report – title, introduction, hypothesis, materials, procedure, results, and conclusion. Yet, after the student uploads their lab report, there is no feedback from the Journey Homeschool Academy. Students are also assigned thought-provoking research questions and a reading assignment to further their understanding of the course material. To move on to the next lesson, students must check all the boxes as complete.

Within this 35-week course, students learn about the chemistry of life, cytology, cellular metabolism, life cycle of the cell, genetics, living organisms, microbiology, kingdom protisa, kingdom fungi, kingdom plantae, kingdom animalia, the worms, creatures of the sea, phylum Mollusca, phylum Arthropoda, phylum Chordata, and human anatomy. Upon completion, students receive a certificate of completion for a job well done.

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