Apologia

The K-3 science landscape: kit-driven, literature-based, and worldview-explicit programs, and the question each one answers

Eight elementary science programs across three families that take three different positions on what early science is. Mystery Science and Generation Genius on video, BookShark and Sassafras through literature, Apologia and Berean Builders from an explicit Christian frame, with REAL Science Odyssey and the Charlotte Mason nature-study tradition between them. Plus the Texas launch timeline, the Tennessee award amount, and the dispatch.

Issue 07 covered the K-3 art and music landscape and made the point that art programs are not interchangeable because they answer different questions. Science in the K-3 band has the same structure. The programs split into three families. The kit-driven and video courses, including Mystery Science…