In June we were offered the opportunity to receive a
course for a year free to review
Fascinating Education.
This is an online course featuring various Science Education such
as Chemistry, Biology and Physics for high
school homeschool students. This program
was developed by Dr. Margulies, a
retired neurologist, author and an expert witness in
the field of neurology. We chose to explore Fascinating Biology first but the suggested
course of study is to start with Chemistry and then Biology.
If
you, like us do choose to
complete Biology first, there is Chemistry Pre-Course for Biology
that contains six
lessons that can be completed first, at an extra cost. There’s
also a Chemistry Review
included in Fascinating Biology as Lesson 2.Ok so
we do things out of order sometimes
but that makes life
interesting.
Fascinating Biology is an online homeschool science curriculum for high school students.
It is an 18 lesson video course complete with written
downloadable script of the video
and a test at the end of every lesson. The video/slide presentations
are approximately 45
minutes each lesson. The test may be taken online multiple times
to learn the correct
answer and pass. The test is set up to let you review what
you missed before attempting it
again.
Lessons in Fascinating Biology:
Lesson 1: What Is Life
Lesson 2: Chemistry Review
Lesson 3: The Cell Membrane
Lesson 4: Take in Nutrients
Lesson 5: Take in Energy - Part 1
Lesson 6: Take in Energy - Part 2
Lesson 7: Take in Energy - Part 3
Lesson 8: Take in Energy - Part 4
Lesson 9: Grow
Lesson 10: Reproduce - Part 1
Lesson 11: Reproduce - Part 2
Lesson 12: Reproduce - Part 3
Lesson 13: Homeostasis - Part 1
Lesson 14: Homeostasis - Part 2
Lesson 15: Adapt - Part 1
Lesson 16: Adapt - Part 2
Lesson 17: Prokaryotes, Protists, Animals,
Fungi
Lesson 18: Plants
How We
Used It
Once logged in I sat with my son and watched the video then discussed
the test questions
with him while he was taking the test. The first lesson was
pretty easy to get him to do
but the following lessons were a little harder to get him to watch.
There’s a menu tab with
the video that shows what is covered in that lesson and the next
few lessons overwhelmed
him before he started. He’s a special needs child and to see
the menu look like it fills the
whole screen makes him automatically turn his brain off.
Tried watching a little at a time
and that worked pretty well. Maybe the option of hiding the
menu bar would be
beneficial to special need as well as typical kiddos.
Would I
Recommend Fascinating Biology?
Yes I would recommend it to others but more typical kiddos
and not special needs. I
would have liked to have seen a few experiments thrown in on
a couple of lessons. I did
like that the last few slides in the video was kind of like a
review of each lesson, The
videos were bright and eye catching, not boring and along
with the menu tab there is a
glossary tab giving the definitions of certain words.
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