Exploring Creation with Astronomy
Blast off into Bible-based space science! Your child will chart planets, track stars, and journal discoveries—all with one eye on the sky and one on Scripture.
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Exploring Creation with Astronomy
Few subjects capture a child's imagination quite like space. Exploring Creation with Astronomy is a Christian astronomy curriculum that helps your child explore God's creation while building a solid foundation in astronomy.
Designed for grades K–6, this updated course guides your child through 14 chapters covering the solar system, stars, galaxies, black holes, space exploration, and more. Rich photography, engaging explanations, Scripture, and hands-on activities help bring complex concepts within reach of young learners.
Rather than relying solely on worksheets, your child will build models, create craters, track clouds, observe constellations, construct a simple telescope, and complete a variety of activities that reinforce key concepts. Most projects use common household materials, and an optional science kit is available for families who prefer added convenience.
The full-color Student Notebook helps organize the learning experience with daily assignments, narration prompts, notebooking pages, review questions, Scripture copywork, hands-on activities, and space for illustrations and observations. Built-in schedules and checklists make it easy for your child to stay on track while reducing planning time for parents.
Additional features include lapbook-style activities, field trip pages, and chapter reflection sections that encourage your child to engage more deeply with what he is learning.
Whether your child is fascinated by planets, curious about space travel, or simply eager to understand the universe, Exploring Creation with Astronomy provides a hands-on, Bible-based introduction to astronomy that continually points back to the Creator behind it all.
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Young Explorer, Jeannie Fulbright's elementary science program is an in-depth science curriculum with gorgeous, full-color pictures and captivating, God-exalting text. It sparkles in comparison to the mainstream, dry-bones science program, and it utilizes what we believe is the most sensible method of teaching science, the immersion approach.
With their yearly superficial overviews, other science programs quickly become tedious as children encounter the repetitiveness of topic matters. The Young Explorer, science immersion program will allow your family to enjoy the depth and riches that genuine science can give. Most home-taught children who enjoy science are taught with a science immersion program. This program utilizes a combination of the Charlotte Mason and classical methods. You can rely on each Young Explorer book to acknowledge the evidence of Creation, have easy-to-follow self-contained lessons, include hands-on activities, and support the National Standards of Science.
Recommended for ages six through twelve, but written with a fourth-grader in mind, you may find that your older children will enjoy doing the coursework independently. At the same time, younger, less confident readers will prefer parental involvement. We encourage you to let your child choose the topic to study that captures your student's interest. Your student can use the Young Explorer titles in any order since each book's content stands alone.
Because of the concept levels, the publisher suggests that Earth Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology, and Chemistry & Physics are better suited for upper elementary grades. However, younger students can certainly follow along and learn well if older siblings have progressed into these last three books.
Publisher: Apologia Educational Ministries
Author: Jeannie Fulbright
Age Recommendation: 6 - 12
Grade Recommendation: K - 6th
ISBN: 9781940110585 (text), 9781940110752 (journal)
Format: Hardcover (text), Spiral-bound softcover (journal)
Size: 11.25" × 8.75" × 0.9" (text), 11" × 9" × 1" (journal)
Consumable: No (text), Yes (journal)
Faith-Based: Yes
Made in: USA
Lessons: 14
Edition: 2nd
- Old Schoolhouse EE Award 1st Place Winner
- Practical Homeschooling Reader Award Top Ranked by Homeschoolers
- One of Cathy Duffy's 102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum
- About.com Readers' Choice Winner
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review by Art Kit
”If you’re looking for a faith-based science textbook that is easy to read and understand, full of gorgeous illustrations, and is captivating for both parents and children, you will love Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Astronomy textbook and notebooking journal bundle. ”
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review by Little Earthling
”The textbooks are beautiful and give me a solid foundation for digging deep into our favorite subjects. I personally recommend buying both the notebooking journal (one for each child) and the science kit.”
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review by Zephyr Hill
”Apologia’s textbooks are so well written, you might just find yourself or your other children picking them up to read and learn just for pleasure.”
Read the ReviewFind answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
Yes, it is! The series is designed to be used in any order, so you can choose to start with whatever topic most interests your child.
Some of the books in the series have content that is a bit more advanced than others. In particular, Earth Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology, and Chemistry & Physics are better suited for upper elementary grades.
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- May 28, 2023
Excellent science
Hayley R.
Apologia is our favorite science curriculum. We love the vibrant colors, easy to digest information, and content applicable for all children/students.
- December 11, 2022
Thorough and interesting
Hayes
Apologia is a solid science program. Their Astronomy course is no different. Lots of interesting and important information presented in an interesting way.
- June 8, 2022
Interesting
STACEY B.
Short lessons and great activities
- December 15, 2021
Astronomy
STACEY B.
My 7th grader and I have enjoyed this curriculum. He and I have both learned about Astronomy this year. I also bought the student handbook so we could have more hands on with this curriculum. It has been great to keep his attention.
- October 11, 2020
Kati B.
My kids love space and my oldest wants to work for NASA so this was a no brainer. The words are a bit beyond my 1st grader so I read it to her and my 3rd grader as a group and it works well. We don't do all the activities, and sometimes we supplement our own, but it has a lot of detail and really tells a lot about each planet. We're only a few lessons in but, so far, it's been great!
- September 14, 2020
Astronomy
Melanie
This is the updated version of Apologia's astronomy and it's really a lovely book, with vibrant colors and a nice notebook to go with it. The text is very readable and interesting. As usual with Apologia's books, my daughter prefers the reading to the writing exercises and the experiments. I would not have done this at their younger recommended ages, though. There's far too much reading involved, even if it's read to the child.
- September 10, 2020
great book
Bryson
My daughter who loves science loved this book. she loved it!
- July 11, 2020
I really love this program
Brittany H.
In my opinion, this is a better fit for older children. While it can be used for a wide range or ages, the older children really get significantly more out of it. Great in depth resource.
- February 12, 2020
Exploring Creation With Astronomy
Keltaylor06
We decided to add this to our children's curriculum as a second science class and they loved it. I was glad that we were able to find a course on Astronomy since it was a favorite subject of mine and it turns out it is for my children as well. The material is very informative and well organized for my children to understand. Pairing it with the Astronomy Notebooking Journal was even better with the extra learning and visuals. This is a great program!!
- April 23, 2018
Exploring Creation with Astronomy
B. m.
Thought this might be over 1st grader's heads but I was so wrong! And it's actually a great place to start with formal science because as it introduces science to the student, they aren't lacking the maturity I would want to see to make sure they are retaining information about, say, botany. The book was beautiful and engaging, and my husband and I both appreciated the approach to science- God honoring and fully open to reason.
