Back when this blog was newer, my science posts were the most detailed posts. We did science with another family and had the opportunity to work our way through nearly all the topics for elementary school. I spent a lot of time looking at various curricula, but never found one that I felt did everything I wanted for science. In the end, I organized it myself, but it has been a lot of work.

You can still read my old posts about our first two years, which have gaps, but also, I hope, can serve as inspiration.

In addition to the science encyclopedia, we made especially heavy use of (and I recommend highly) the following resources:

The Let’s Read and Find Out Science series, a picture book science series that is widely available in bookstores and libraries
The Magic School Bus books, which are well known and widely available everywhere
The Horrible Science books, which are a humorous resource widely available in the UK but less used and known in the US, available to buy online new or used
The Janice Van Cleave science experiment books, which are widely available in libraries and to buy online used or new
The My Science Book of… series of simple experiment books by Neil Ardley, which is an older series widely available in libraries and through used book sources
The Boston Children’s Museum Activity Books, which are an older series of more involved experiments available at some libraries and occasionally through used book sources
The Magic School Bus television series, which can be found on DVD and is available at many libraries
Bill Nye, the Science Guy, a television series which can be found on DVD and is available at many libraries
Eureka!, a short form Canadian television series intended for older kids, but which can still be enjoyed, which can be found entirely on YouTube