Greg Landry's Homeschool Science Review

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My son has been learning some important skills to help him be more successful in college with his study skills. He has had an opportunity to use another fantastic resource from Greg Landry's Homeschool Science. This time around he is using Study Skills / Measurement / Lab Reports/ Graphing - Self-paced 7th-12th grade. I received a 12-month subscription to the course.

This online Self-Paced course is intended for 7th-12th grade homeschooled students. You will find other courses and grades available for your family.

Greg Landry is a former college professor turned homeschool dad. This is taught from a Biblical Christian Worldview. The sessions start with Mr. Landry praying and he teaches students to think Biblically - I love his statement above.

You will need a Canvas account to use all of Greg Landry's Homeschool Science courses that are online. I would also recommend a printer to print out the PDFs however, you can view the worksheets via computer if needed. Everyone in your immediate family will have access to the material as long as it is within the timeframe of your subscription.

Navigating the site is easy. If you have multiple courses you just click on the course and it will take you into your course. On the site it is self-explanatory. You have a link to download your PDF file. Each of the video lessons has its unique link. Once you click on the link you are ready to go.

As the course name implies you will learn about study skills, measurements, lab reports, and graphing. One thing that Greg Landry noticed was that students struggled with some essential areas. That is why he felt that digging into measurements, metric systems, graphing, and how to write a solid lab report would benefit learning these topics. All the classes weave together in this course.

After you have logged into your account you will have access to the PDF and the videos. It is suggested to have a 3-ring binder, or a notebook, and coloring pencils. I immediately downloaded the PDF and put it in a binder for my son. This let him just open his notebook where he left off.

Classes covered are both online videos and a companion PDF file.

There are eight videos. The first one is for the parent and the student to watch. It doesn’t matter if you watch Intro: Instructions and Introduction for Parents and Students together or separately. This lesson will give you an overview of the course, the importance of these essential skills, and how to best utilize the information in your homeschool. This video is less than 6 minutes.

All the videos will have Greg Landry teaching the course. The videos are no longer than 30 minutes each. You will have a video of him explaining the concepts. He is very concise and clear in what he is explaining. He doesn’t move too fast nor does he drag a topic into boredom. He also doesn’t dumb down a topic as he gets straight to the point without the fluff. He is a pleasure to listen to. My son thinks he would be a very approachable and down-to-earth individual from his teaching style. While you are listening to him you will see the PDFs being shown and discussed throughout the video.

Intro: Instructions and Introduction for Parents and Students

Taking Notes, Note-Sketching, & Studying

Test Taking

Measurement & the Metric (SI) System

Temperature & Graphing

The Scientific Method & Lab Reports

Scientific Notation & Magnitude Perspective

Statistics, Probability, Accuracy, and Precision

The PDF for Study Skills / Measurement / Lab Reports / Graphing - Self-paced 7th-12th grade is broken up into seven chapters for each of the topics. You can easily follow along with the PDFs as you are listening to the videos. My son typically will work on his PDFs while listening to Greg Landry and pausing occasionally if needed. The PDFs are illustrated and the worksheets give you enough space to write in or you could use a notebook if you prefer.

This being a self-paced course you can schedule this to fit your schedule. You could do one class each week and finish the course up in less than 2 months. You could do it bi-weekly or finish it up quickly.

My son decided to do this in two weeks. It was good timing for him with him starting dual credit classes this semester. He went into those classes this year with the mindset of not needing to take good notes or study skills. I don’t think my homeschool environment prepared him for that. Maybe because when he got stuck we would go back over it until he got it. Now the pace of the classes he has to keep up with the pace of the other students. Thankfully the subjects are ones that he knows well. He does see the need to be more diligent in his notes and study skills. Which will be needed next semester.

His favorite topic was Measurement & the Metric (SI) System, Test Taking, and surprisingly Statistics, Probability, Accuracy, and Precision. He has always found the Metric system interesting and wishes it was the standard in America. He liked the way he stressed to think metric. That is an area that sometimes frustrated him with science. The last one surprised me. I didn’t realize that he sometimes gets mixed up on some of the terminology used in the basic statistics. He told me, “that he felt this was a good use of his time and that he learned a lot more than he expected in this course.”

I loved all the skills he learned throughout the course. These are skills that will help him beyond high school and college. He may not be writing a lab report in 10 years but details matter!

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