Greg Landry's Homeschool Science

 

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Over the past weeks my daughter has been working through a self-paced course from Greg Landry's Homeschool Science entitled, Embryology / Endocrinology. This particular class is a college prep, one semester course. The seven recorded lessons can be watched at your own pace and are around 30 minutes on average. Each lesson has a study guide and a PDF provided with the class. The suggested grade range is 7-12. Some labs are suggested but are not required. Students have email access to Professor Landry in case they have question or need help throughout the course. The course covers the development of a baby from conception through birth. With regards to Endocrinology it covers the pancreas and blood glucose control, diabetes, pineal gland, and hormones. 

Students log-in through Canvas. Under their Dashboard their classes that 

they are signed up for will be displayed. All your student has to do is click 

on the class to begin. Our class is self-paced so my daughter were able to

 get started right away and work at her own pace. I am not quite sure how the 

live classes work and what that set-up is like. 

 

This is the Table of Contents for the Study Guide. 

This is from Lesson One. Professor Landry is explaining how to write up a lab.

Lesson Two begins the study of Reproduction including the female anatomy,

the monthly menstrual cycle...

Professor Landry does a great job at explaining a woman's monthly cycle,

how each month an egg matures and is released from the ovary into the fallopian 

tube. If sperm is waiting for the egg fertilization usually happens close to

the top of the Fallopian tube. He then goes on the explain sperm meeting egg,

conception, implantation, etc...

I love how Professor Landry multiple times brings into this study how

amazing our Creator is! This is one of those times. Only our wonderful

Creator could make THIS HAPPEN...A BABY. 

For some of the diagrams in the lessons students will be asked to study a 

chart or an organ and then label on a blank chart or organ. In this example

students have just been learning about fetal heart circulation and the changes

that take place after birth. Students are asked to study the heart and learn the 

parts of the heart and then use the blank heart and label the parts of the heart. 

Here are some of the lesson questions and charts that my daughter filled out

as she listened to the lessons. 

Overall, I thought that Greg Landry is extremely knowledgeable. I actually listened in on many of the lessons and enjoyed them. He does a wonderful job at explaining the information to the students. I liked the step-up of the course and loved the self-paced option. My daughter also liked that it was self-paced and that she could do it on her own time. I kind of wish that Professor Landry would break up the course into two sections, maybe 7-9 grades and 10-12 grades and make the curriculum a bit more challenging for the upper grades. My daughter is in the 12th grade and both she and I found the curriculum to be a bit elementary. She finished it in two weeks. I have no idea how this would take any student a full semester to complete. In my opinion there is definitely not enough material to make this a semester long course. I also do not see how this could be considered a college prep course. I have six children and several that have taken college prep courses in the sciences and this most definitely is not a college prep course. The term college prep is very deceiving to the person that is signing up for this course. With that said, I would not recommend this course to others looking for a semester long, college prep course. I would maybe recommend this course to parents that want to introduce their child to reproduction. I think that this would be a great course for a 7th grader. With that said, please be sure to read what my Fellow Crew Members had to say about Greg Landry's Homeschool Science curriculum. Please remember, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Also, what doesn't work for one family may be the perfect fit for the next family.