The full-color course book guides the parent through each lesson in the Maturation and Sexual Reproduction science course. Clearly outlined lessons, vocabulary words, along with beautiful illustrations and images are found throughout the course. Once you gather any simple lesson supplies, the lessons are open-and-go. Just turn to a lesson and start reading and learning together! Only one course book is needed per family.

• 69 pages
• Full-color
• 8 lessons
• Wire binding; 8.5″x11″

A Student Journal for each child is also needed to complete this course. Purchase on the Maturation and Sexual Reproduction Course Set page.

Explore the wonders of the vast world that surrounds us, from the amazing creations found in your own backyard to the most extreme biomes on Earth, in the updated Ecosystems science unit. Every little part of the earth, from the drops of water in the ocean to lumbering elephants to each unique person, is an important part of our world!

The full-color course book guides the parent through each lesson in the Ecosystems science course. Hands-on activities, engaging videos, vocabulary words, beautiful illustrations and images, along with engaging information is found throughout the course. Once you gather any simple lesson supplies, the lessons are open-and-go. Just turn to a lesson and start reading and learning together! This course is taught family-style and only one course book is needed per family.

• 112 pages
• Full-color
• 9 lessons
• Wire binding; 8.5″x11″

A Student Journal for each child is also needed to complete this course. Purchase on the Ecosystems Course Set page.

PDF for self-printing

The full-color Course Book guides the parent through each lesson in the Ecosystems science course. Hands-on activities, engaging videos, vocabulary words, beautiful illustrations and images, along with engaging information is found throughout the course. Once you gather any simple lesson supplies, the lessons are open-and-go. Just turn to a lesson and start reading and learning together! This course is taught family-style and only one Course Book is needed per family.

• PDF for self-printing
• 112 pages
• Full-color

A Student Journal for each child is also needed to complete this course.

Immerse your family in nature as you study the fascinating characteristics, amazing anatomy, and beautiful habitats of birds around the world! Explore this fun scientific subject through engaging videos, beautiful images, and hands-on activities. Easy-to-teach lessons will plunge you and your children into learning about different types of birds, their habitats, and much more.

The full-color course book guides the parent through each lesson in the Birds science course. Hands-on activities, engaging videos, vocabulary words, beautiful illustrations and images, along with engaging information is found throughout the course. Once you gather any simple lesson supplies, the lessons are open-and-go. Just turn to a lesson and start reading and learning together! This course is taught family-style and only one course book is needed per family.

• 160 pages
• Full-color
• 14 lessons
• Wire binding; 8.5″x11″

A Student Journal for each child is also needed to complete this course. Purchase on the Birds Course Set page.

Two full-color, interactive books in the optional Health and the Human Mind Read-Aloud Book Pack expand learning and provide a fun, engaging addition to your Health and the Human Mind study.

How do we recognize faces we’ve seen before or remember what we wore yesterday? The Amazing Thing Called Memory by Kelley Williams answers these questions and more as it explores brain function anatomy, fascinating facts, and case studies of individuals with memory challenges. (32 pages, full color, 10″x7″)

Perfectionism, overthinking, low self-esteem, and pressure to please others—Tilly experiences all these thoughts during her first day at choir camp. She wonders if she should even go to camp at all. However, with the help of her mom, Tilly decides to make some goals so she can work through the stress she’s experiencing. It’s hard at first, but Tilly learns just how powerful her mind can be in A Penny for Your Thoughts by Tyler Mattson. (36 pages, full-color, 11″x8.5″)

These books are all published by The Good and the Beautiful Library and are designed to appeal to children of many ages. Lessons will prompt students when to read these optional books, but they are not integrated with the lessons.

Two full-color, interactive books in the optional Health and the Human Mind Read-Aloud Book Pack expand learning and provide a fun, engaging addition to your Health and the Human Mind study.

How do we recognize faces we’ve seen before or remember what we wore yesterday? The Amazing Thing Called Memory by Kelley Williams answers these questions and more as it explores brain function anatomy, fascinating facts, and case studies of individuals with memory challenges. (32 pages, full color, 10″x7″)

Perfectionism, overthinking, low self-esteem, and pressure to please others—Tilly experiences all these thoughts during her first day at choir camp. She wonders if she should even go to camp at all. However, with the help of her mom, Tilly decides to make some goals so she can work through the stress she’s experiencing. It’s hard at first, but Tilly learns just how powerful her mind can be in A Penny for Your Thoughts by Tyler Mattson. (36 pages, full-color, 11″x8.5″)

These books are all published by The Good and the Beautiful Library and are designed to appeal to children of many ages. Lessons will prompt students when to read these optional books, but they are not integrated with the lessons.

Three full-color, interactive books included in the optional Weather and Water Read-Aloud Book Pack expand learning and provide a fun, engaging addition to your Weather and Water study.

Includes:

Wild, Wild Wind: 31 pages
Changing Weather—The Story of June Bacon-Bercey: 27 pages
The Schoolhouse Blizzard: 32 pages

These books are all published by The Good and the Beautiful and are designed to appeal to children in grades K–8. Lessons will prompt students when to read these optional books, but they are not integrated with the lessons.

Three full-color, interactive books included in the optional Weather and Water Read-Aloud Book Pack expand learning and provide a fun, engaging addition to your Weather and Water study.

Learn about tornadoes, downbursts, hurricanes, trade winds, and more with Sam and his grandfather’s letters that teach about different weather patterns without creating fear in Wild, Wild Wind by Shannen Yauger. (31 pages, full-color, 11″x8.5″)

Fascinated by the atmosphere, June Bacon-Bercey, a bright and motivated young woman who excelled in school chose to study meteorology. What she didn’t expect was to not be welcome to study meteorology. But undeterred, June became the first African-American woman to earn a degree in meteorology. In Changing Weather—The Story of June Bacon-Bercey you’ll learn about this pioneer who blazed the trail for others to follow. (27 pages, full-color, 11″x7″)

On January 12, 1888, in a small Nebraska town, the school children are caught in a sudden blizzard. Follow along with Tommy and Carrie Carter and their teacher Miss Penny as they decide whether to stay in the schoolhouse and freeze or brave the storm on foot to find warmth and safety in The Schoolhouse Blizzard (32 pages, full-color, 11″x8.5″)

These books are all published by The Good and the Beautiful and are designed to appeal to children in grades 3–8, although younger students may enjoy reading along with older siblings who are completing the science unit. Lessons will prompt students when to read these optional books, but they are not integrated with the lessons.

By Elle Staples and Shannen Yauger

The beauty of weather has captured the imaginations of artists throughout history. Through spectacular paintings artists have brought snowcapped mountains, tumultuous waves, windblown trees, and foggy mornings to life. Through awe-inspiring artwork and thought provoking questions, the beauty of our world’s incredible weather patterns comes alive in this remarkable collection of landscape paintings from artists around the world.

• 61 pages
• Full-color photos
• Hardcover, perfect binding, 10.75″x6.75″

The Beauty of Weather is recommended to accompany our Weather and Water science unit and expand learning for older students.

By The Good and the Beautiful Team

Addiction to substances and certain activities can have serious and devastating effects on a person’s life. Through 36 commonly asked questions and easy-to-understand, scientific explanations, The Addiction Questions & Answers Book teaches children and teenagers to recognize these addictive substances and activities, understand the physical and mental health dangers of using or engaging in them, and honor themselves as God’s divine creations by keeping their bodies free from addictions and substance abuse.

• 47 pages
• Full-color illustrations
• Paperback, perfect binding, 8.5″x5.5″

The Addiction Questions & Answers Book is recommended to accompany our Health and the Human Mind Science unit and expand learning for students in grades 7-8.

How do we recognize faces we’ve seen before or remember what we wore yesterday? The Amazing Thing Called Memory answers these questions and more as it explores brain function anatomy, fascinating facts, and case studies of individuals with memory challenges.

• 32 pages
• Full-color illustrations
• Paperback, perfect binding, 10″x7″

This book is an optional read-aloud book for our Health and the Human Mind Science Unit and is included in the optional Read Aloud Book Pack which is suggested to accompany that unit.

Perfectionism, overthinking, low self-esteem, and pressure to please others—Tilly experiences all these thoughts during her first day at choir camp. She wonders if she should even go to camp at all. However, with the help of her mom, Tilly decides to make some goals so she can work through the stress she’s experiencing. It’s hard at first, but Tilly learns just how powerful her mind can be.

• 36 pages
• Full-color illustrations
• Paperback, perfect binding, 11″x8.5″

This book is an optional read-aloud book for our Health and the Human Mind Science Unit and is included in the optional Read Aloud Book Pack which is suggested to accompany that unit.

Three engaging books included in the optional Chemistry Read-Aloud Book Pack expand learning and provide a fun, engaging addition to your Chemistry study.

Born in Poland while it was under oppressive Russian rule, Marie Curie overcame incredible obstacles to become the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice. Marie Curie is an enlightening look into the life of one of history’s most prominent and extraordinary scientists. (106 pages, 5.5″x8.5″)

Have you ever wondered what the earth, planets, and stars are made of? You will be taken on a journey through God’s orderly creation, where elements are clearly defined and behave in predictable ways in The Book of Elements by Erin Sprout and Isaac M. Hagenbuch, PhD. (48 pages, full-color, 11″x8.5″)

In The Story of Alice Ball by Jennifer Lerud, we learn about the incredible woman who discovered a cure for leprosy. (31 pages, full-color, 10″x7″)

These books are all published by The Good and the Beautiful and are designed to appeal to children in grades 5–8, although younger students may enjoy reading along with older siblings who are completing the Chemistry science unit. Lessons will prompt students when to read these optional books, but they are not integrated with the lessons.

Three engaging books included in the optional Chemistry Read-Aloud Book Pack expand learning and provide a fun, engaging addition to your Chemistry study.

Born in Poland while it was under oppressive Russian rule, Marie Curie overcame incredible obstacles to become the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice. Marie Curie is an enlightening look into the life of one of history’s most prominent and extraordinary scientists. (106 pages, 5.5″x8.5″)

Have you ever wondered what the earth, planets, and stars are made of? You will be taken on a journey through God’s orderly creation, where elements are clearly defined and behave in predictable ways in The Book of Elements by Erin Sprout and Isaac M. Hagenbuch, PhD. (48 pages, full-color, 11″x8.5″)

In The Story of Alice Ball by Jennifer Lerud, we learn about the incredible woman who discovered a cure for leprosy. (31 pages, full-color, 10″x7″)

These books are all published by The Good and the Beautiful Library and are designed to appeal to children in grades 5–8. Lessons will prompt students when to read these optional books, but they are not integrated with the lessons.

Level 7/8

By Robin McKown

Born in Poland while it was under oppressive Russian rule, Marie Curie overcame incredible obstacles to become the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice. However, there was far more to her great mind than the work she did with radium and radioactivity. Marie Curie is an enlightening look into the life of one of history’s most prominent and extraordinary scientists.

• 106 pages
• Paperback, perfect binding, 5.5″x8.5″

Marie Curie is an optional read-aloud book for our Chemistry science unit and is included in the optional Chemistry Read-Aloud Book Pack which is suggested to accompany that unit.

Have you ever wondered what the earth, planets, and stars are made of? In The Book of Elements, you will be taken on a journey through God’s orderly creation, where elements are clearly defined and behave in predictable ways. We will encounter the periodic table and learn how and why the elements are organized.

• 48 pages
• Full-color photos and illustrations
• Paperback, perfect binding, 10″x7″

The Book of Elements is an optional read-aloud book for our Chemistry science unit and is included in the optional Chemistry Read-Aloud Book Pack which is suggested to accompany that unit. It is designed to appeal to children in grades 3–8, although younger students may enjoy reading along with older siblings who are completing the science unit.

When ten-year-old Alice Ball moved to Hawaii with her family, she had no idea what the future had in store. Her dedication to learning and blessing the lives of others would soon change the world as she instructed students and discovered a cure for leprosy that previously had been unknown. Largely untold for many decades, the true story of this incredible woman is one that should be shared.

• 31 pages
• Full-color illustrations
• Paperback, perfect binding, 7″x10″

The Story of Alice Ball is an optional read-aloud book for our Chemistry science unit and is included in the optional Chemistry Read-Aloud Book Pack which is suggested to accompany that unit. It is designed to appeal to children in grades 5–8, although younger students may enjoy reading along with older siblings who are completing the science unit.

Each student grades 3–8 needs his or her own copy of the 38-page Maturation and Sexual Reproduction Student Journal which includes worksheets the child will complete during the lessons. The parent-led lessons in the course book will direct the student regarding when to complete the student journal activities.

• 38 pages
• Full-color
• Saddle-stitch binding; three-hole punched; perforated; 8.5″x11″

PDF for self-printing

The full-color Course Book guides the parent through each lesson in the Birds science course. Hands-on activities, engaging videos, vocabulary words, beautiful illustrations and images, along with engaging information is found throughout the course. Once you gather any simple lesson supplies, the lessons are open-and-go. Just turn to a lesson and start reading and learning together! This course is taught family-style and only one Course Book is needed per family.

• PDF for self-printing
• 160 pages
• Full-color

A Student Journal for each child is also needed to complete this course.

PDF for self-printing

The full-color Course Book guides the parent through each lesson in the Arthropods science course. Hands-on activities, engaging videos, vocabulary words, beautiful illustrations and images, along with engaging information is found throughout the course. Once you gather any simple lesson supplies, the lessons are open-and-go. Just turn to a lesson and start reading and learning together! This course is taught family-style and only one Course Book is needed per family.

• PDF for self-printing
• 72 pages
• Full-color

A Student Journal for each child is also needed to complete this course.

PDF for self-printing

The full-color Course Book guides the parent through each lesson in the Mammals science course. Hands-on activities, engaging videos, vocabulary words, beautiful illustrations and images, along with engaging information is found throughout the course. Once you gather any simple lesson supplies, the lessons are open-and-go. Just turn to a lesson and start reading and learning together! This course is taught family-style and only one Course Book is needed per family.

• PDF for self-printing
• 144 pages
• Full-color

A Student Journal for each child is also needed to complete this course.

Each student grades 3–6 needs his or her own copy of the 36-page Birds Student Journal which includes interactive activities, games, and worksheets the child will complete during the lessons. The parent-led lessons in the course book will direct the student regarding when to complete the student journal activities.

• 36 pages
• Full-color
• Saddle-stitch binding; three-hole punched; perforated; 8.5″x11″