You’ll get access to all lesson and lab videos along with PDF downloads of the student guidebook, lab guide, curriculum guide, and answer keys.

Should you want a physical copy of the guidebook or lab guide, those are available for purchase in our store. We also highly recommend that you purchase the textbook: Novare Physical Science.

You’ll also be responsible for purchasing lab supplies for any labs you’d like your student to complete. You can review the Physical Science Lab & Activity Supplies List here.

You’ll have immediate access to begin the course whenever you would like after you register!

Since this course is self-paced, you, the parent, have control over when your student begins the course. You can start as soon as you register, or wait a few weeks or months. Beginning the course is as easy as pressing a button. Once you begin the course for your student, they will have one year to access the course.

Since this course is self-paced, you, the parent, have control over when your student begins the course. You can start as soon as the course is available, or wait a few weeks or months. Beginning the course is as easy as pressing a button. Once you choose to begin the course for your student, they will have one year to access the course.

Once your student completes their current lesson, they’ll receive access to the next one within 1-2 hours. This allows you the flexibility to work ahead if needed to account for vacations or time off while still finishing the course in the typical timeframe.

Students will have a full calendar year to complete the course, so if they fall a week or two behind, they should still have plenty of time to complete all the lessons.

No, students can watch the lessons anytime throughout the week. Once a lesson is unlocked (by completing the previous lessons), each video can be reviewed as many times as the student wants as long as they have access to the course.

Physical Science Explored Level B is designed for the middle school years, while Physical Science Explored Level C is perfect for high school students. The upper-level course includes everything from Level B and builds on the concepts with weekly assignments including:

• Additional video lessons

• Instruction on writing high-school-level lab reports

• Additional labs that reinforce concepts and provide lab report writing practice

• In-depth projects and activities

We recommend students plan to complete one lesson per week to finish the course in a typical school year. That usually takes about half an hour per day, five days per week for Level B. If your student is in Level C, you’ll need to allocate about 1 hour a day, five days per week.

While this course does not have a lot of math involved, as an integrated chemistry and physics course it does have some. Students should have a good understanding of basic math operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) and fractions. Some pre-algebra skills would also be helpful.

Each student receives their own online portal, quizzes, and grades, so each student should enroll separately. We do offer generous multi-student discounts for families enrolling more than one student in the class at the same time.

If you have multiple students (in the same immediate family) enrolling in the same upper-level course, we offer a 50% discount for the second student and a 75% discount for the third and fourth students.

If you have multiple students enrolling in the same level of the course, your discount will be automatically added at checkout. If you happen to have children enrolling in both the B and C levels, you’ll need to contact us via email at info@journeyhomeschoolacademy.com, so we can assist you.

We believe parents are best equipped to determine their student’s educational needs. As a homeschool course, you’re welcome to choose whatever textbook you’d prefer for your student to use or omit textbook reading altogether if you’d prefer. For most students, anytime they can use multiple modes of learning, it helps them retain information better.

After reviewing many, many textbooks we chose Novare Physical Science because we believe this textbook does an excellent job of reinforcing the concepts students are learning in the lectures. We provide recommended reading from them, however, if you choose another textbook you’ll need to be sure to assign students what you’d like them to read each week.

We have also created alternative reading schedules to accompany several other commonly used textbooks by homeschoolers. While we cannot vouch for every detail in these textbooks, the reading lists provided here generally overlap with what is covered in each of the lessons in the course.

In addition to our recommended textbooks, we currently have a reading list available for the following textbooks:

• Physical Science, BJU Press (6th edition)

• Exploring Creation with Physical Science, Apologia (3rd edition)

• Science: Matter & Energy, Abeka (1st edition)

• Physical Science, ACSI/Purposeful Design (1st edition)

In most states, students need to accumulate at least 120 hours of instruction and coursework to receive a high school credit.

Physical Science Explored Level C for high school allows your child to accumulate these hours. They’ll need to complete all of the following to accumulate the necessary course hours:

• complete all the course lectures

• take all the quizzes and exams

• complete all recommended readings

• complete all lab and activity assignments part of the regular course

• complete each of the additional weekly level C assignments

Please note: the Level B course for middle school ages does not include enough hours for most students to receive high school credit. If you are intending your student to earn high school credit, be sure to select the Physical Science Explored Level C program when you sign up.

You sure can! We’ve made sure to make the lessons applicable to those worldwide. We’re excited to welcome our friends in other countries to join us as we study physical science.

We offer co-op pricing for groups of 4 or more who have designated a single instructor/facilitator. Co-op courses are designed for groups that are meeting at least weekly.

Our co-op courses are set up differently than our family programs to accommodate groups. You can learn more about our co-op courses here.

Please note: because of the way our group programs are set up, we are not able to communicate with individual parents of students within co-ops.

We are an approved vendor with several ESAs and are continuing to add to the list all the time! We're happy to provide you with invoices or other information you need to submit to your ESA. You can see all the ESAs we're currently approved vendors with and/or submit a request for us to apply to the ESA in your state.

We offer a 100% money-back, happiness guarantee within 30 days of the course start date OR 6 months from purchase date (whichever is less). Simply email us and we’ll give you a full refund.