Biology: Exploring Life

So nice to have a copy of the book at home! I don't need to worry about my son forgetting to bring his book home so he can do his homework. The worst is the night before the test and discovering the book didn't make it home! If you worry about how heavy your child's back pack is this is a good way to lighten it up a bit.

I homeschool my 15 year old son and this book was invaluable. It has a slew of great experiments, with a handy materials list at the beginning of each chapter. There are links included that take you to pertinent videos of the topics and even a few games. The pictures are gorgeous and engaging and really give my visual learner something to look at.

Received this in absolutely excellent condition! Better than the book my son was originally issued. And at an awesome price!

Excellent

The computer portion if vital to learning what is needed from this book. The disk will not load onto my computer with Windows 7--it is too old.

I know I have a biased opinion of this book since I worked on the lab manual that accompanies this book. That said, I can't pass up the opportunity to recommend this book to my fellow biology teachers. This book is going to change the way kids learn biology. The intergrated nature of the web activities and the clean, uncluttered, focused writing of the textbook will make biology understandable to students who get lost in a sea of vocabulary. Campbell's vision for this program was to collaborate with a team of classroom teachers to create a textbook, website and lab program that are designed to work together in a dynamic, pracical way for real kids - well it worked. Check it out!

My son's entire class has been unable to get the CD to run. All the kids have Vista. Has anyone been able to get it to run on Vista?