General Biology is a brilliant high school biology text that combines up-to-date science with a Christian worldview and the mastery-based educational philosophy for which Novare is known.
The book starts at the atomic level and progresses to ever-larger scales: cells, genes, microorganisms, plants, animals, and human organ systems. Each chapter includes straightforward learning objectives, exercises that call for both clear articulation of thoughts and full-sentence answers, and an organization of topics that steadily builds chapter by chapter.
Like all Novare texts, mastery-based learning methods are an essential part of Novare General Biology, propelling students not only to learn but also to substantially retain the content for years after completing the course. Novare General Biology succinctly and logically covers a wide array of information in a modest number of pages, making it a pleasure to read. Brilliant and beautiful graphics, which appear on almost every page, draw students into mature engagement with the content.
Memoria Press’ science program has two goals prior to high school science. First, we teach students the world of nature by studying the things its makeup—birds, insects, trees, mammals, and the heavenly bodies. Second, students learn a narrative account of the development of the sciences—they learn science in a story form, in a way they can best understand it. They are then ready to study high school science using the excellent Novare Science Series. Check out all that Memoria Press has to offer with science here.
Novare advocates a paradigm for teaching science that has proven to be a true game changer for student academic achievement: Wonder, Integration, and Mastery. These principles flow from a robust Kingdom Perspective and form the core of the Novare philosophy.
