Disclaimer: I was given a free 30 day trial in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
Science4Us is an elementary science program for kids from kindergarten through second grade. I’ve been trying it out over the last month with my 6 year old and 4 year old, and it’s definitely been a hit.
This program allows us to learn science at home, through interactive videos and virtual activities in all areas of science. We’ve been exploring earth and space science in preparation for our further studies in that area later this year.
The lessons with all of the activities were a good hours worth of activity. The kids took turns each day logging in, and the other child always wanted to sit in on the lessons. The lessons are broken down into easy segments that would allow for you to spread the lessons out over several days.
The teacher’s section allows you to schedule lessons and activities for each student. But I let them learn on their own and work through what interested them (which was everything!)
Activities included keeping a virtual science notebook, review exercises, quizzes, as well as some language lessons related to the topic (alphabetizing and syllables), and more.
The lessons are secular science lessons, but I did not run across anything controversial in the studies that we listened to. And I made sure to be in the room during every lesson.
The only complaint that I had about this program was the loading time. It did take quite awhile for each segment of the lessons to load, and one particular activity did not load at all. But the fun was worth the wait time for my kiddos.
Science4us is a super fun way to bring science into your homeschool. It eliminates all the intimidation that science can bring and allows your student to be pretty independent. Some computer skills are necessary (click and draw, click and drag, etc.)
You can begin Science4us in your home for $7.95/month per child, a very complete science curriculum that incorporates math and language into each lesson. To learn more, visit the Science4us website, watch demos, and take advantage of their 14 day money back guarantee.
Disclaimer: I was given a free 30 day trial in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
I appreciate your review of the program and an so glad your young children loved it. I also had the opportunity to review the program recently. I love that the lessons are planned out and that it keeps records for me. With the lessons planned it allows more time for actually “doing” science and less time preparing to do science. I think it is probably a great program for visual learners, and is colorful and not intimidating for early elementary science students. Thanks again for your review.
Great points! Thanks for commenting.