online curriculum

IXL is one of our favorite websites to use for homeschooling. IXL offers IXL Math and IXL Language Arts to it’s users. This program is an educational supplement to be used as extra practice, not as a stand-alone curriculum.

We have been using IXL for years now and this is one vendor we are always excited to see on the Crew Vendor List. Our membership to IXL has been such a blessing in our homeschooling. My children enjoy using the website and learning with it.

My children that use IXL are ages 6, 11, and 13. Each uses IXL at their own pace and can review the lessons they are learning as needed through the program since it is just simple, yet thorough, practice for them. IXL provides a wonderful place to learn that they truly enjoy.

IXL isn’t a cutesy website. This website is clean and to the point in lesson style. You won’t find a lot of distraction or over the top imaging on this site but you will find a great deal of learning that is intriguing and fun for your children.

Lesson answers are often multiple choice, making selections easy to make and understand. Some lessons are easier to answer and complete than others, just as in a textbook. How quickly and easily your child can use this website will depend on how well your child learns and your child’s maturity level in following directions educationally.

IXL Math covers all grade levels. Lessons are provided by Letter from Level-A through Level-N. Most lessons have over 200 skills to be taught through the program. Level-A begins with number concepts and understanding numbers, while Level-N teaches equations of cosign functions and graphing complex numbers. You will find everything Math covered in IXL Math.

IXL Language Arts begins at Level D and takes you through Level-J skills. This program begins around a 3rd-4th grade level for students. IXL does plan to add more to this program over time and have been slowly working on that goal. IXL Language Arts covers things like identifying plurals, correcting capitalization errors, how modifiers are used, using parallel structure and so much more.

Parents can try out the lessons as well to see what the student will cover. Simply click the lesson and it will start. This is a great way to know if this concept is the right one for your child.

Students don’t have to work on a certain grade level through this program either. You can choose any level at any time and cover that concept or practice. This is great for independent learners. It also allows you to adapt the program to any curriculum you are learning through already.

A membership to IXL is available through their website. A monthly membership for IXL Math or IXL Language Arts cost $9.95 a month. A yearly membership for IXL Math or IXL Language Arts costs $79 a year. A combined membership for both IXL Math and IXL Language Arts costs $129. You may have multiple students use this program and it is designed for students in grades K-12. There is an additional cost for multiple students of $2 monthly or $20 yearly.

There are also apps available for using this program on a tablet or other digital device.

You can find IXL in the following places online:

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Fascinating Education is a wonderful, science-based online curriculum that helps making learning upper Science fun. Fascinating Education provides a full program for Fascinating Chemistry, Fascinating Biology and Fascinating Physics. For this review, we were given full access to their Fascinating Biology course online.

This course costs $79 a year per student. There are 19 lessons and it includes quizzes and test scripts to help gauge how well your student is learning throughout the coursework. This program is also mobile friendly, meaning you can use it with a cell phone or tablet, if necessary.

You can also combine course packages. Pick 2 courses for $125 or all three courses for $175 per year. This is an exceptional value. These courses are designed to be used with students who are middle to high school aged or adult, depending upon the course and the abilities of your student.

The program itself is video-based and extremely easy to use. It is great for those students who struggle with learning science. The videos are simple and extremely explanatory. This also makes teaching the program easier for you as a homeschooling parent and takes a lot of the work out of educating, giving Mom or Dad a break.

This program is great for the independent learner as well. Your student can go at a pace set for themselves, allowing them to learn as quickly or as slowly as they need to. This also allows for them to watch the videos again and again until they have a sure understanding of the lesson. Such a great thing for any struggling learner.

I was personally extremely impressed with this program. Fascinating Biology was simple to use but thorough in lessons. Once you register for your program and you log in, you will see the lessons immediately. As I mentioned above, there are 19 lessons in Fascinating Biology, each covering a different topic on the subject. You see the lesson listed as Lesson 1: What is Life, Lesson 2: Chemistry Review, Lesson 3: The Cell Membrane and so on.

Under each lesson are icons to click to get to the lessons themselves. These are Lesson, Script, and Test. Each is self-explanatory. Lesson is the lesson itself. Clicking on this will open another webpage which contains the lesson at hand. The video begins and there-in so does the lesson.

There is a side tab that lists the slides in the video to make reviewing the lesson easier. There is also a tab for a glossary which gives the meaning of many words that may be new to your students. Clicking on these words will show you exactly what they mean.

The Script button takes you to the book work for the lesson. This is a PDF file which can be saved or printed as needed. It explains the lesson and what you are learning each time.

The Test button also leads you to another page. This is the lesson review. It is multiple choice and the student should easily be able to complete and answer each lesson test to show how they are learning.

This is an excellent program that we really have enjoyed using. I look forward to having my children learn through other Fascinating Education courses in the future. We also look forward to finishing our work in our current course through this year.

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