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2009 Science 5
2009 Changes
- Remove Usborne Guide to Rocks and Fossils
- Remove An Introduction to Word Processing
- NEW Understanding Your Brain
- NEW The Usborne Introduction to Genes & DNA
- NEW Unlocking the Mystery of Life (DVD)
- Now only 5-day book - Dry Bones and Fossils
- Now only 5-day book - Human Body
NOTE: Student Activity Sheets are interleaved with weekly schedule pages and notes.
Science Bio - The History of Medicine (5S16)
Science 5 IG errors
- Week 1 - Activity Sheet Questions #10 and #11 are not assigned. They can easily be added to the Day 3 assignment. (5.4.09)
Understanding the Times contains video 5.11.09 We reached Unit 4 this evening and I just realized that the video set that comes with UTT includes the 2 "new" DVDs that are in Science 5 and Science 6 now: Unlocking the Mystery of Life and Icons of Evolution.
Boy's Body Book issues (4.13.09)
Page 76 of this book has a sentence which references "two moms" and "two dads". In response to customer concern, we will be adding the following statement to future printings of the Science 5 IG ...
Page 76 includes this note about families and parents: “Some boys are raised by a single parent, grandparents, two moms, two dads, in foster families, blended families, by aunts and uncles, and combinations of the above.” The phrases “two moms” and “two dads” are open to interpretation. For instance, a child with divorced parents may have a stepmother or stepfather in addition to their biological mother and father. In a sense, they would have “two moms” and “two dads.” However, it’s also possible to interpret the phrases as being suggestive of homosexuality, thus communicating “two moms” and “two dads” in a very different sense. Rest assured that Sonlight supports a biblical view of marriage and the family. Overall, The Boy’s Body Book provides helpful information, but feel free to discuss with your children any content that you believe requires clarification.
Human body worksheets
Science 5: some of the Human Body worksheets are not covered by Usborne or anything else in our science program; tell customers they can use those worksheets as an opportunity to do some research with their student OR they could simply skip those that are not covered in Usborne -- the answer key to the worksheets is in the back of the book, if the client is just looking for the answers!
Almost 12
- After reviewing the current edition of Almost 12, Sonlight has chosen to offer the old version. We do not recommend the content of the new version.
- cover and illustrations of our version were updated in 2008, but content is the same
from John:
- Besides the apparent attitude shift--where the new edition, written to the classroom-educated majority, seemed to expect peer pressure to engage in s*xual behavior (an assumption that I would prefer not to make for homeschoolers; not merely nor primarily because of any "sheltering," but because I expect my kids to acquit themselves more as Daniels, "dar[ing] to stand alone"--the really overpowering reason I asked for the right to reprint the old edition has to do with the graphics. I thought the new edition shows much more of the body than is necessary to convey the message the graphic is supposed to depict (for example--I'm not sure you would find this particular picture, but what I am about to describe is equivalent to what I am talking about: when showing the growth of the baby inside the mother, the picture shows not just a "cut-away" view of the mother's lower abdomen with the baby inside, but shows a fully-rendered view of her entire torso . . . on up through her upper chest). Compare that with the more diagrammatic drawings in the "old" edition that we carry. My perspective: "To get the sense of how the baby grows inside, you don't have to show me the details of the mother's br*asts and pub*c hair. . . ."
- Standard answer for public release: Sonlight asked for pemission to reprint the older version because of the graphics. We thought the new edition shows much more of the body than is necessary to convey the message the graphic is supposed to depict. Also we felt that the new book has an attitude shift which is geared toward students that are expected to be sexually active. Graciously, the author, Mr. Taylor, gave permission to us to reprint it.