The content of this book is excellent. My sixth grade daughter enjoys it as a companion to the text. It has great reinforcement and many creative projects that she looks forward to. My main disappointment is the paper quality. It is REALLY THIN! It is so thin that we can read the print on the NEXT page! Because this is a project notebook, the paper quality matters. The paper just isn't thick enough for some of the projects and anything she writes shows through for a few pages. Instead of being beautiful, it looks like a mess. I am mainly disappointed because we've purchased note-booking books for Apologia in the past and they had NICE, THICK paper! This is definitely inferior to the quality than Apologia offered in the past; they've gone from nice and thick to super, super thin paper. This printing was in S. Korea instead of the US, like our other books.

great resource to go along with the textbook

I thought the format for this science curriculum was similar to the Mystery of History format... basically easy to use.... I was wrong,,, it required too much prep . In the end we did not use it!

If you have alot of time..... it may be perfect!

We have used these Apologia journals for several subjects, for both of my kids. My son, 13, works in the older version because it includes "What do you remember" questions for each chapter and usually a crossword puzzle of the vocabulary words. The junior version does not include those, so it is easier for my 7 yr old daughter to work through. The jr. journal has some cut and paste activities, while the older version does not. Both have coloring pages and scripture copywork, both in print and cursive. These journals suit all our needs as we can pick and choose which activities to complete for which child. Very nicely laid out and worth the money. It has mini books that you can assemble (in color) which adds some variety to the black and white pages. Throw in some coloring pages and even photographs of your completed projects and you have a very interesting "notebooking style" journal!

Gives me more than enough things to do with my kids and they have fun doing it!