Apologia Science
Apologia sells separate science courses from preschool to 12th grade. Each elementary course (astronomy, botany, three zoology titles, earth science, anatomy, or chemistry and physics) is one textbook written to the child for the whole K to 6th grade range, with a notebooking journal that sets a schedule of two days a week; middle and high school courses add module tests, lab reports and a four-day weekly schedule. You buy a textbook and a notebook for each course; audiobooks, video lessons, self-paced online courses and live classes are sold separately.
- Subjects
- Science
- Grades
- Preschool to 12th grade; each elementary course is for K to 6th grade, General Science for 7th to 8th, Physical Science for 8th to 9th source ↗
- Method
- Charlotte Mason, Traditional source ↗
- Format
- Books and workbooks source ↗
- Faith label
- Faith-based
- Works alone from
- The publisher says the middle school courses are built for students to work on their own from a daily schedule in the student notebook, with most lessons taking 30 to 45 minutes. source ↗
- Cost a year
- $84.60 a year. Elementary Botany set (textbook and notebooking journal), used for K to 6th grade: $94.00 list, $84.60 on sale today. Audiobook $18 extra. Read on October 29, 2026; prices change. source ↗
- Placement
- Recommended course sequence ↗
What it does well
- One elementary textbook covers every child from kindergarten to 6th grade, so siblings can study the same topic and do the experiments together.
- The notebook carries the schedule: an elementary course takes about 28 weeks at two days a week, so the year is planned for you.
- The line runs from preschool through high school biology, chemistry, physics and electives, so one publisher can carry science through every grade.
- Elementary experiments use common household items, according to the publisher.
Watch for
- In the elementary sets only the textbook is required; the notebooking journal, audiobook and activity videos are separate purchases.
- There are no tests in the elementary courses, so a parent who wants grades before 7th grade will need to make their own.
- Each elementary course goes deep on one topic, so with eight titles over seven years a child will not touch every area of science each year.
- High school physics expects Algebra 1 and Geometry to be finished first.
It fits
A family teaching several children who wants one science topic at a time, read together from a textbook with hands-on activities, and then a structured textbook course for each teen.
It doesn’t fit
A family that wants a separate book for each grade in elementary science, or a course taught mostly on screen.
Compare Apologia Science
- Apologia Science vs REAL Science Odyssey side by side
Other programs for the same subject and grades:
- Beautiful Feet Books Kindergarten to 12th grade, in grade spans such as K to 3rd, 4th to 6th and 5th to 8th
- The Good and the Beautiful Preschool to 12th grade; high school has language arts and biology only
- Khan Academy Kindergarten to 12th grade, plus early college courses
- REAL Science Odyssey Kindergarten to 10th grade: Level 1 for K to 6th, Level 2 for 6th to 10th
- Blossom and Root Preschool to 6th grade (Level 6 still being finished)
- Generation Genius Kindergarten to 8th grade, in K to 2nd, 3rd to 5th and 6th to 8th grade bands
- Mystery Science Kindergarten to 5th grade
Lists it is on
- Homeschool science curricula 8
- Faith-based homeschool curricula 22
- Traditional homeschool curricula 24
- Charlotte Mason homeschool curricula 9
- Homeschool curricula for pre-K and kindergarten 48
- Homeschool curricula for middle school 51
- Homeschool curricula for high school 38
- Print homeschool curricula 44
- Homeschool curricula under $100 a year 17
- Faith-based homeschool science curricula 3
- Faith-based traditional homeschool curricula 9
- Faith-based Charlotte Mason homeschool curricula 7
What we read, and how we label
Every fact on a card was read on the publisher's own website on the date shown, and the page it came from is linked. A fact we could not confirm there is left out. Costs are for one child and one year of the main package, as the publisher's page showed them that day; prices and sales change. Method and format are the publisher's own description where it gives one. The only thing we say about religion is one label, secular or faith-based, given by the rule above; where the publisher's pages don't settle it, the card has no label.
The publisher’s pages we read on October 29, 2026:
- apologia.com/subject/science/
- apologia.com/elementary-science-for-homeschool/
- apologia.com/middle-school-homeschool-science/
- apologia.com/high-school-homeschool-science/
- apologia.com/curriculum-scope/
- apologia.com/shop/botany-course-set/
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