Are you looking for a science curriculum that is elementary and covers Anatomy from head to toe? Apologia has a elementary curriculum that is christian based and gives glory to God in his creation of the Human Anatomy, from the head down to the toes. Both of my kids are really enjoying Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology. For this review we received the Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology Text, Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology Junior Notebooking Journal, Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology Notebooking Journal, and Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology MP3 Audio CD.

Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology contains 14 lessons that cover many different topics. You start out at first learning a brief history in medicine and taking a peek into cells and DNA. This book contains 14 lessons and you find topics such as: body systems, skeletal, muscular, respiratory, digestive, cardiovascular, nervous system and more. What I also like is you will find health and nutrition in this as well. This book contains many facts, engaging activities, and other hands on experiments.

The two notebooking journals we received are for different levels. The only difference really is that one is made for younger students ( or students that have trouble with writing or other learning disabilities) and the other is made for older students. They do have similar activities, but some activities in the journal are a little different. I will explain that later when I talk about how we used it.

The Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology MP3 Audio CD is perfect to be used with the book or to listen to on the go. It is an audio recording of the course Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology read by Jeannie Fulbright. I must say that Jeannie Fulbright has a nice voice on the CD that makes it pleasant to listen to. This CD is the perfect accompaniment to those who are auditory learners, or have other disabilities that make it hard to read. – Please note that in order for this CD to work you must play it on a MP3-compatible CD player.

How We Used This: 

I used this both with my son and my daughter. My son is older but he has such trouble writing and trouble with fine motor that I decided to use Junior Anatomy Nobooking Journal with him. I used the Anatomy Notebooking Journal with my daughter. We used this during our health class roughly four days per week. I wanted to go at the pace that was laid out for two days a week but I had to slow it down to make it work for both the kids. The lesson plan in the journal is 2 days a week for 28 weeks. It is going to take us longer to get through then 28 weeks for us.

The reason I slowed way down was the fact that in both of these notebooks there are areas for note taking and drawing. I want the kids to get as much as they can out of these journals. I think that by spending a day or two on the note taking was totally worth it. I had to do the note taking on separate days for the kids because it was to hard to have one sit at the table waiting for the other. I had them write down what they thought was important, or important facts they needed to know.  There were spaces that they could draw pictures. So I had them draw pictures of things that they had learned. For example in the brief history to medicine they talked about cells and a microscope, so I had them draw a slide with cells and a microscope. So you get the idea.

The Junior Notebooking has shorter writing assignments and coloring pages, and cut and paste activities. The older version contains a fascinating facts template like the Junior Notebooking Journal it is just provides more lines for writing and less drawing boxes. There are review questions for each lesson, which one of the things I really liked. It also contains project pages and scientific speculation so that you can keep a record and log your experiments. There are more ideas for each lesson, which extends learning with additional activities, projects, experiments, books, and videos. They also have field trip sheets to keep a record of.  They both do contain copy work of scriptures. They both have colorful things in the back of the book to cut out and put together and add to their journals. They also both have final reviews. So there are things that are similar one has a hard cross word puzzle then the other.

The timing of this review was kinda funny as my daughter is studying biology. She was working on cells and DNA as well. So one of the experiments were very similar so we picked using the edible cells in this book to make. I am actually not using this as a science curriculum but I am using it as their health curriculum for the year. I looked through the book and noticed their were things that could apply to health, for example later in the book when you work on the cardiovascular system it talks about heart attacks. That is something that we do talk about in health. There is also health and nutrition and other stuff with the immune system. I think it compliments each other nicely. Know that this is a science curriculum, it was my choice to use it for health class.

One thing that I am really going to like is that the kids made a body and they could either use their picture for a head or draw a head. As you work through the book you will cut out the different systems and lay them on top of each other. I found that to be really fascinating and exciting. Gives them a great hands on visual. I found the activities in the book and the journals to be very engaging and fun. The experiments are hands on and my kids absolutely loved them. One of the experiments was to have clay and make a person with long arms and legs but picture them with out bones so they don’t stand tall….well my son did the limpy person body and my daughter well there was no stopping her she was already starting on the strong body. To make the body strong you were to use toothpicks. I don’t think that the toothpicks really mattered in our case because she made that thing stand. You can’t really see them as they are hidden by the clay. So it kinda balanced itself out with this experiment by one doing one and the other making the other. We also did mummified apples…..I must admit I almost forgot to go back to them and look at them.

I have to say that this is one curriculum that makes it easy to understand the human body. It isn’t overwhelming to the kids. The journals are definitely a nice addition to your study. I love that they reinforce the learning. I love that their is note taking space, vocabulary, questions, and different learning activities to reinforce learning. The pictures in the text are engaging. I love that everything is laid out for you with the lesson plans. We just checked them off as we went along. We did use the CD briefly on a trip to Green Bay. We listened to what we had already done as review and the new stuff we ended up hearing we used as a discussion on the way home. I think one of my favorite things I noticed in this book was in the Notebooking Journal there were additional resources and I love being able to extend lessons when I can.

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