Christian Liberty Press: God’s Creation series

Christian Liberty Press

Our Father’s World

$8.95, teacher’s manual - $5.95, test packet - $2.95

This beautiful, full-color first grade text introduces children to science with the theme of “things that God has made.” Actual topics are an eclectic collection of general introductions and details of selective examples. For example, insects are introduced, then special attention is given to metamorphosis, anthills, locusts, and a few other topics. While there is quite a bit of overlap in content with the 2nd grade text, this one also covers some health and safety topics and adds a section called “Studying Things”—activities to help children understand concepts of balance, weight, temperature, flotation, and size. A brief teacher’s manual and test packet are included.

God’s Wonderful Works

$9.95, teacher’s manual - $5.95, test packet - $2.95

Suggested as a 2nd grade text, God’s Wonderful Works might also be used with older students. Subtitled “The Creation in Six Days,” the book is organized in six sections reflecting what God brought into existence on each day. Coverage is introductory as is appropriate for this level.

Like the first grade book, it is printed in beautiful, full-color with a “glossy” look that is very visually appealing. Simple hands-on activities help convey concepts. Questions, including fill-in-the-blank, at the end of each section require some written work. A brief teacher’s manual and test packet are included. Curiously, there is a great deal of repetition of concepts already covered in the first grade book, although coverage is more extensive in this book.

Exploring God’s Creation

$8, test packet - $1.95

This third grade text is divided into four units: physics and chemistry, geology and botany, astronomy and weather, and biology and health. Hands-on learning is stressed rather than a reliance on absorbing information strictly from reading the text. Numerous color and black-and-white illustrations, large print, and relatively short text make it practical for young learners. Every lesson includes an experiment/activity, but the thirty-one lessons should require only about two days per week. Some thought-provoking questions are built into the lessons.

Unit reviews (quizzes) are provided within the book along with an answer key. A separate test booklet with answers is available.

The situations and needs of homeschoolers were primary considerations in the development of this book, so you find practical experiments that require household items, field trip suggestions that are broader than those that are strictly for classroom groups, and an easy-to-teach, all-in-one book format that saves time and energy.