How can one or two selected resources be used to teach all ages?
• The SOW Curriculum is designed to teach students how to master skills, instead of just learning rote material. Since texts are used as a source to find information on a specific subject and not as an end or means to gain knowledge, we encourage families to use the higher texts rather than the lower ones. • You will find that the lower texts water down information limiting the facts about a subject. For example: A first grade science text will say that a frog lives in a pond. Second grade–it is green, slimy, and wet. Third grade– it is an amphibian. Till finally in 12th grade biology class, the student is given all the information about a frog. We believe that the student should be given all the information about a subject leaving the results to God. If a student is capable of learning and understanding information about a frog at a college level, why not let him? • The reading level of magazines, newspapers and most text are at the 4th and 6th grade level. If your child can read th
