Year One

Let's start with creation!  There is nothing more important to learn than the fact that God Almighty created all we can see and hear and touch and feel.  He is the author of the laws that keep the universe running in its complexity.  He is the Great Physician.  He is the ultimate oceanographer, holding the seas in His hand.  It would be foolish to attempt any study of science without first acknowledging Him in His role as Creator. In fact, all of our religious devotion to Him is based on the fact that He created us.  When we start our new studies each year, I tell my children that we are not going to study science.  We are going to try to get a glimpse of our great Creator by looking closely at the things He has made.

Studying creation is more than just reading a storybook that tells what God made on each day. (Although, that is a good place to begin with a young child.)  It is a large, complex subject. It is as large as the universe surrounding us! Because of that, we spend the first two years of our three-year rotation focusing only on the information introduced in the first thirty-one verses of the Bible.

During the first year of our study, we look specifically at the physical science contained in the first two days of creation - light, sound, water, atoms, molecules, motion, energy, heat, air.  (For a teen, this is the year that they learn chemistry or physics.) 

God created plants on the third day of creation; so, we also study the science of botany during this first year.  (For a teen, this study can be delayed until year two.)

Finally, since God created all we see in outer space on the fourth day of creation, we end the year with a study of astronomy.

Year One
Year Two
Year Three