God's Design for Life (MB Edition)

God's Design life was amazing. It Simplified things so much for me as a working mom and for my child. We purchased the Academy course to go with it and my son followed it along with the text book. The combination of the academy course and book is what made my son enjoy it so much .He looked forward to doing his lessons that he even wanted to do lessons on the weekend . Thanks so much Masterbooks!

We used this with God's design for life for beginners and loved it. It lines up really well and allows for family style learning and makes it about as easy as it can be.

I used this with my children as a read-aloud (we did not use the workbook that comes in the set). The lessons were a perfect length for a quick "open and go" science session. The information was at a good level - not too basic, but not too in-depth, so that each of my children (aged middle school to high school) enjoyed the subject matter. The pictures are nice and colorful. I recommend this book as a really good source for beginning biology. If you don't want to do the workbook, it would definitely work well as a read-aloud or morning basket type of resource.

We recently started *God's Design for Life* from Master Books, and while it’s definitely more advanced than the workbooks for younger children, it’s still an excellent resource! The "open and go" format makes it easy to use, and the content is both engaging and educational. It’s perfect for helping my child dive deeper into the subject, and I love how it challenges them while still being accessible. Master Books has been a fantastic fit for our homeschooling, and I highly recommend this workbook for older students!

I love how easy and straight forward this material is. It is great that there are "challenge" materials for my older son as well. I am able to use this for my third grader and 6th grader at the same time!

I wish I could give this a better review, but we were so so disappointed. This was WAY over my 3rd graders head and was incredibly boring for my 6th grader. We forced it for several weeks, but even I was struggling with the material. After searching for advice on how to do this differently in one of the MBs facebook groups, it seemed like the majority of parents felt the same and thought maybe it would be better for older middle school.

Uuugh. I prefer not to leave negative reviews, but if I don’t tell the truth about our experience others families may have a hard time as well. We really wanted to love it. Unfortunately, we got to about Unit 3, Lesson 11 (think it is Roots) and gave up all together after weeks of struggling. I’ll start by saying Science & Language Arts are my almost 7.5 year old 4th grade daughter’s jam. But this was a snooze fest. It was downright boring and monotonous for BOTH of us. It took me a while to realize it because I was trying so hard to make it work (we have both the student & teacher’s books from the scratch & dent sale). From about the 2nd or 3rd lesson (unit 1) I found myself looking up alternate companion materials (videos, printable, worksheets, etc) to explain the lesson concepts in a more exciting palatable format, so that the information could be received & absorbed in a less painful way. I then started using the text as a reference & have now scrapped it & have been using a free science website which provides us with a fun animated short video on each subject, printable text for the child to read themselves, a worksheet to demonstrate what the child learned, additional activities, optional printable activities, additional links to websites to carry learning on the subject or linked subjects to another level, and a unit quiz, which can be taken online (I copy it over to written format for my records). Unfortunately, I would not recommend this curriculum to anyone due to its dry format. I have been so happy with all of my purchases from Masterbooks up until this one, which initially concerned me so much that it made me more nervous about future science curriculum purchases.

So easy to understand!!!! Keeps things simple and straight forward for me.

It’s well written and easy to understand. My 3rd grader has problems understanding what he’s reading so this is good that he’ll understand it.

My 8th grade daughter used this last year alongside her brother using the beginner version. She found it engaging, bright and colorful. Very user friendly.