AC Home: Science

Name: AC Home: Science
Brand: Adaptive Curriculumhttps://www.adaptivecurriculum.com

by Adaptive Curriculumhttps://www.adaptivecurriculum.com

ScienceGrades 5–12

AC Home: Science: Interactive Online Science Supplement

AC Home: Science is an online science program for grades 5-12 that provides interactive animations, virtual labs, and instructional videos with strong visual appeal. The curriculum functions primarily as a comprehensive supplement rather than a complete standalone science curriculum.

Best for

Busy homeschooling families seeking a visually engaging science supplement for grades 5-12 who want comprehensive teacher support without extensive preparation time

Evaluation Criteria

1 strength · 2 neutral · 4 insufficient evidence

Teacher TrainingStrength

The curriculum provides strong teacher support materials including detailed lesson information and planning tools.

Includes 'intuitive and user-friendly teacher resources,' lesson planner, detailed Activity Object descriptions with objectives and prerequisites, and helpful tutorials that minimize need for customer service

Retrieval PracticeNeutral

The curriculum includes assessment capabilities and progress tracking, suggesting some form of evaluation and review.

System provides 'assessment tests,' progress tracking for individual students, and detailed reports in multiple formats, indicating built-in evaluation components

Hands On IntegrationNeutral

The curriculum provides virtual labs and experiments rather than physical hands-on activities, which may limit tactile learning experiences.

Reviewer mentions AC Home offers 'lab experiments' and 'interactive 3-D models' virtually, and the parent appreciated not having to 'devote time to things like lab experiments' in real life

Knowledge RichInsufficient Evidence

The curriculum appears to cover substantial content across physics topics like force, motion, electricity, and magnetism, but depth of content knowledge building is unclear.

Physics lesson plan includes comprehensive categories from scientific investigation through nuclear physics, with 5-15 Activity Objects per category, but the review doesn't detail the depth of content instruction within each topic

Ngss AlignmentInsufficient Evidence

Standards alignment is not mentioned in the available review evidence.

No reference to NGSS or other science standards in the review

Direct InstructionInsufficient Evidence

The curriculum includes instructional videos and structured lessons, but the balance between direct instruction and discovery-based activities is unclear.

Program includes 'instructional videos' and 'lessons in concept development' as part of Activity Objects, but the pedagogical approach within these components is not detailed

Scientific VocabularyInsufficient Evidence

Vocabulary instruction approach is not clearly described in the available evidence.

Activity Objects include keywords and the system allows searching by keywords, but no specific mention of explicit vocabulary instruction methods

Sources: cathyduffyreviews.com