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With the Apologia science curriculum The Human Body, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, students will gain college level knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, a topic usually covered in less depth even in most AP biology courses. With this background, combined with Exploring Creation with Biology, students should be well-prepared for AP exams or CLEP tests.

This program, like all of Apologia science curriculum, is designed to be self-teaching. Dr. Jay Wile, the author, is a college professor who noticed most of his best students were homeschooled. They seemed to do so well because they were confident independent learners. He’s written these texts to encourage the sort of independent learning that makes homeschoolers so successful. All the needed information is … Read the rest of this post…

Get out your colored pencils or fine tipped markers!  The Anatomy Coloring Book is the revolutionary new way to study college level anatomy.  Anatomy has historically been what many college students call a “killer” course, requiring as it does the memorization of hundreds and hundreds of terms for the many structures and parts of structures in the human body.  The Anatomy Coloring Book helps with this Herculean task by engaging more parts of the brain in the learning exercise, thus making the material more memorable.

Most anatomy books provide colored photos or illustrations.  Students themselves often messily copy messy diagrams from the chalkboard as their professor lectures.  The former are often quite realistic and accurate, but engage the student very … Read the rest of this post…

A child-friendly human anatomy model is a great way to teach about wonder of the human body.  The three dimensional model helps young children understand things much better.  They can “see inside” and understand how it all fits together.  There are a few different types of human anatomy model, so choose the one that is just right for the lesson being taught.

First, is the skeleton.  When learning about the bones that hold us up, there is nothing like a good model of a human skeleton to illustrate.  Try to find one that includes all the bones separately indicated (some of the cheaper models fuse separate bones together indistinguishably).  The really good ones can be put together and taken … Read the rest of this post…

Human anatomy is one of the most fascinating and at the same time challenging science classes many students will ever take.  The wonder and intricacy of the human body is awe inspiring.  There is nothing quite so amazing as realizing how perfectly everything works together.  The course is challenging because there are so many features to memorize.  Muscle groups, veins, arteries, nerves, nodes, and other structures and systems all must be learned by heart.  The challenge is easier with a human anatomy study guide that taps into multi-sensory learning centers in the brain.

To learn the necessary structures for human anatomy class and commit them to memory, students can tap into creative, visual, oral-aural, and kinesthetic centers in the brain … Read the rest of this post…