American curriculum but living in uk

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Ive been looking at some of the science curriculum and I really like the American ones, especially the dissections! However, as we hope to send DS back to school in two years I'm concerned that he won't have covered the appropriate uk curriculum. Does anyone know if this would be the case?

I guess it depends which course with which company.
Some/many of the american science courses have a young earth perspective for a start. American curriculums also have a large percentage of what we call geography, plus 'space science'. And 'earth science' (maybe thats the geography bit I cant remember)

You can look at the UK national curriculum online so that might help to contrast and compare.

I cant remember how old your ds is?

Im doing a bunch of science stuff (some uk, some american) with mine (they are 7 and 10) if you are interested I will witter about it!

Witter away! He's in Y6.

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We are using a whole bunch of stuff for different subjects many of which are american.
Because (I presume) home education has been popular in America for much longer than here there are many many resources written specifically for home educators.
Because my two are still by definition at primary school (and the younger one is not a reader) we use stuff aimed at 5-10 yo and then I differentiate where necessary to make it sufficiently interesting for ds who is a bit of a genius (not hereditary from me!)

So I dont know much about high school level curriculum yet (because we are not using it yet)

Given that you havent actually started yet I think its best to urge you not to buy anything yet. Especially as I know from your other thread that you and your son have some issues getting along?

I honestly think you will do best (if you do deregister him) to not do anything obviously educational until at least Christmas. Just be

Play games, read books together, go for walks, bike rides, theatre, museums etc. All that will help enormously to improve your relationship together and give you both a chance to get used to things. Whilst you are doing that keeping reading websites, blogs etc about different resources, go along to home ed groups and findc out what works best for others. Hopefully a few will show you what they use (much easier to work out if its for you if you can look at it for real)

I will post what we actually use in a minute............ (may be helpful for anyone who stumbles across this thread)

Science
We are currently using and loving Considering Gods Creation (though Im not a creationist - we are enjoying the discussions it raises and the student pages)
purchased from Ichthus resources a christian company
We are then moving on to a couple of the Great science adventures (also on that link).
We also have a book called building foundations of scientific understanding by B J Nebel

I like sonlight mainly because we love learning through interesting books so along with the 'core' Im considering ordering from them we might also do their science D (then science E, F and G but not the ones above as they use Apologia which Im not a fan of). We already use a bunch of the stuff in their catalogue but I have sourced it from UK companies/amazon

For secondary school science we are definitely switching to GCSEs/IGCSEs depending on availability - ideally combination of chemistry, physics, electronics, astronomy.