Exploring Creation with Physics - Basic Set for Homeschooling & STEM Education | High School Science Curriculum Kit for Hands-on Learning

This textbook was specifically designed for homeschooling families, so the whole package assumes that a person is doing the experiments out of their home and that they may or may not have access to a physics teachers. Many other science textbooks assume that a teacher is available and leave out the details. The whole curriculum package includes the textbook, solutions and test manual, CD that demonstrates physics concepts and the lab experiments, and a DVD that contains 20 hours of lectures as well as the demonstration of all the lab experiments. One can also buy a science supply kit that contains all of the materials needed to conduct the experiments in this book from various distributors on the internet. As for the content, this book covers all of the topics that are included in the AP Physics 1 Algebra Based test (1st semester). This book does NOT cover most of the materials for the AP Physics 2 Algebra Based test (2nd semester). The AP board expects that AP Physics 1 Algebra would be taught over a whole school year, so this book does cover a year of lab based physics. There are 16 modules, but only 14 of them are included in the AP Physics 1 Algebra test. If a module takes approximately 2 weeks to complete estimating one hour each day, it would take 28 weeks to complete this curriculum. The AP test is at the beginning of May, so there is plenty of time to complete the material for the AP test without overexerting yourself. The last two modules (optics and magnetism) can be covered after the AP exam, so the whole book is completed. The Advanced Physics with Creation (next physics book in this series) is a Calculus based curriculum, so someone is looking for the material for the AP Physics 2 Algebra Based are going to have to go with a different publisher. The AP Physics 1 Algebra based test expects explanations for the answers, not just the answers. This lack of explanation of the answers is the reason why a lot of students don't do well on this AP test. The solution manual for this book provides very detailed explanations of the answers. If the student follows the example of the solutions manual from this series, the student should do fine on the AP Physics 1 test.As for Christianity in the book, the only reference to Christianity that I found in the book was in the biographies of the scientists like Galileo. Essentially it just says that Galileo started to study science, because he wanted to get a better understanding of G-d. In other words, Galileo did not have a conflict with studying science and G-d, and in fact Galileo believed that by studying science he was getting a better understanding of G-d.