I am often asked how I choose the books used for the SharpScience lesson plans, where they can find the books and how to obtain the lesson plans. Another question about the books and the lessons plans is what world view do they represent?
I choose the books because they were well written, had beautiful, engaging stories and art work and illustrated a given science topic well.
All the books are available for purchase through booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, at your local library or through inter library loan. I purchased some of the books at our libraries' annual book sale, used curriculum sales and yard sales but the majority I borrowed through (inter)library loan.
If you are not familiar with inter-library loan, it is a great resource to obtain books for free or little cost. Your libraries' reference desk should be able to help you with the process. In my case, I was able to order the books I wanted in advance on-line and then I would receive an e-mail notification to come and pick them up.
How can I preview or obtain a SharpScience lesson plan?
Currently, the only way to obtain a sample or a SharpScience lesson plan is to contact me. I am working on having downloadable items for sale but am not there yet.
What World view do the books and SharpScience represent? I would say neutral. I am a Christian and a trained scientist. I choose books that would illustrate science topics and scientific information accurately. I also carefully choose books that were thoughtfully written, had engaging story lines and were well written. Few of the books were written by Christians.
I wrote the lessons plans to allow the parent teacher to emphasize their families' world view as I believe that in home education, it is the parent teacher who is the final authority on that subject. I strongly advise anyone considering using the books or any of the materials to preview them and to adapt them to suit their needs.
Feel free to contact me if you have any other questions in this regard
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