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crball927 -> the teaching company (8/4/2008 8:59:27 PM)

Has anyone used any books from the teaching company? I am considering their chemistry course, but know nothing about them. Can someone help?



cynthia -> RE: the teaching company (8/5/2008 11:02:25 AM)

Are you sure it's the Teaching Company? Here's a link. If this is what you are referring to, you may want to reconsider. The Teaching Company is about enrichment courses. It is different than taking a chemistry course that covers the basics/fundamentals of a subject. Their courses are to be used in addition, not as a stand alone.



isamama -> RE: the teaching company (8/6/2008 1:27:14 AM)

I have used Teaching Textbook, imo, some of their products can be used as a course; such as, Impressionism (art). My dd did a 1/2 year credit on that. We did add a library video or two and used a book on impressionsim for added examples. From their pamphlet that was provided I created nice worksheets/quizzes; ofcourse I went online to add images that completed it, but it worked for dd.

I tried to check out the Chemistry one from our library and was unable to; it was lost by previous borrower, so I am unable to comment on that particular one. I own their Anatomy, Joy of Science, and Astromy sets, but haven't used them as a course. I was thinking of using the Anatomy one as a spine or supplement.

Dd is using a Holt Chemistry text, Visualizing matter; Abeka's Chemistry dvd (LOVE abeka lab videos!) and a favorite supplement is Swertka's Guide to the Elements.



sen10tious -> RE: the teaching company (8/6/2008 9:39:22 PM)

The Teaching Company's high school chemistry course does an excellent job of laying the foundation for the math side of chemistry. It would be a good supplement to any textbook course. But it is far, far away from being suitable as a stand-alone high school course—you would have too many gaps.



ezri -> RE: the teaching company (8/14/2008 9:02:53 PM)

if it is the one Cynthia linked to I can tell you that the workbook I got with
High School Level—World History: The Fertile Crescent to The American Revolution<--link

has one page of questions- for each lecture. 10 discussion questions and 2 essay questions. We will use this as a spring board for further study in real books and online. Do one lecture a week(30 lectures= just 2 short of a school year if I am not much mistaken)

The highschool Algebra 1 has 2 to 3 pages of problems to work with each lecture. it looks like it would be a super companion to say the "keys to algebra" booklets.



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