41 minutes ago, A MOM IN GEORGIA said:
See Alsobiology-workbook-answer-keypdfFiller. On-line PDF form Filler, Editor, Type on PDF, Fill, Print, Email, Fax and ExportBiology: Prentice Hall Standardized Test Preparation Answers9781471807268_Answers.inddIf you planned out the whole year in advance, and yet you customized it, may I ask how you did that and what kind of time did you have to put in to do that? for some of this stuff I'm likely to need to learn alongside my kids so it's just not plausible probably for me to read through an entire biology textbook before I even start with the kids. It might not be quite so bad if I wasn't so old, but I'm 52 and I believe it has literally been 40 years since I took biology! well, I had botany in college, but you can do that math and see it's been a very very long time ago. Even if I remembered it all, I suspect quite a lot has changed.
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If I am understanding your question correctly, it was a case of the best laid plans. I had a plan for labs using stuff I found on Biology Corner and other labs I found online. I had originally planned to do some of the plant based stuff and insect stuff early because they are hard to find in winter, but that didn't work well because the lab didn't line up with the text.
For most of the labs we did you did not need to have a huge background in Biology to do them. For all the dissections, I watched a video dissection on youtube the night before, and then the day of we also watched it as we did the dissection.
I did have aspirations to read the whole text, but in the end I just skimmed a lot of it. I did create quizlets for every chapter though and that helped me refresh some of the ideas from college/high school. The quizlets had the material from the student review notebooks.
I also ended up revising our tests. The original tests I had were written by a friend and were unit tests. This ended up being too much material for my kids, so I used her tests and split them into chapter tests and added questions from the Miller Levine Chapter tests. That helped me review the material also.
