Free general science lessons/worksheets?

Question

This is something I have been looking for about two months, none of the free homeschool sites I have looked at have it.

Is there any sites with general science? Preferably in a textbook format with printable worksheets, or something close to that, not just a site that gives "fun fact" type of stuff.

Answer 1

http://apps.exploratorium.edu/10cool/ind...

and,

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org

Answer 2

You'd be better off looking under the subject headings - animal classification, earth science, simple machines, astronomy, botany, etc.  You'll need to do some searching on these, but if you type in the subject heading and "lesson plan" into your search bar, you'll come up with all sorts of stuff.  

You'll be able to find worksheets, lesson plans, research materials, links for further research, and helpful explanations.  

You won't find an actual curriculum, as it's still so general at that stage.  Each school district and curriculum provider has their own scope and sequence, so the free stuff is a supplement to that.  (Also, anyone who's taken the time to put a full curriculum together is going to want money for it.)  I've been looking ahead though, as my son will be starting general science next spring, and if you're willing to dig through the sites there's some really great stuff there.

If you look on the Apologia site at the different courses, they have the table of contents for General and Physical Science online.  This will give you a great jumping-off point, sort of a scope and sequence of what to research.  As far as free goes, I think this would be your best bet.  Here are the links:

https://apologia.securesites.net/pdfs/TO...

https://apologia.securesites.net/pdfs/TO...

https://apologia.securesites.net/pdfs/ps...

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

what kind of "general science" are you talking about and for what grade level? That might help me find a suitable site for you. I'll get together some of my links and post them here in a minute...

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/Science.h...

http://homeschooling.about.com/od/freepr...

scroll down for the science ones

http://donnayoung.org/apologia/physical....

lab sheets here