Online Science Classes

Online Class Registration is Closed for the Spring Semester. Please check with us in May for our Summer classes! 

*The course fee covers our teacher’s compensation so we cannot give additional discounts. However, we can offer free digital files where applicable  (digital student text, laboratory workbook, and teacher’s manual).

**Additional 5% discount on print bundle purchase; discount code sent with invoice.

***If you have more than one child taking a class, please call our office at 505-266-2761 for our family rate.

****All classes run for 11 weeks.

From our Mailbox

I liked the idea of being able to be at home during class.  I really appreciated having access to the class recording after the fact.  This helped when we were doing experiments because we could listen to the experiment and pause the recording when needed. From one of our students

About our classes

(view a sample Level I Chemistry class)

Class lectures are held weekly with an optional Question and Response session at the end of each week.

Need a highly qualified instructor for high school? Our high school classes are taught by Dr. Rebecca Keller or Dr. Don Calbreath (see below).

Both parents and students have access to all the course materials and grades.

Classes are instructor directed and yet students learn how to study independently and think critically.

Our online lectures allow students to interact with their instructors, ask questions via chat or audio, and use writing tools to answer questions.

You decide how much is required of your student. If you want your child to receive a grade, they must take the quizzes.

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What to expect

Every week one of our teachers will schedule a class time where students “attend” the lecture. The instructor will present material for that week and is available for questions.

During the week students work on the homework or assigned project. Once a chapter is completed, students take an online exam. The exams are automatically scored and grades recorded.

Try one of our online quizzes.

At the end of the week there is an optional additional Q&A session for students to ask questions and discuss what they are learning.

If you would like to be on our mailing list for our Spring 2012 classes, fill out the Online Classes form in the sidebar.

Meet our teachers

Dr. Don Calbreath

Dr. Donald F. Calbreath received his Ph.D in biochemistry from Ohio State University in 1968. After two years of post-doctoral research in biochemistry at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, he directed a chemistry lab for a major community hospital in Durham for thirteen years. He also served for several years as an adjunct professor in the Duke Department of Pathology, teaching laboratory medicine in the physician’s assistant program. In 1984, Dr. Calbreath and his family moved to Spokane, Washington, where he taught on the faculty of the Chemistry Department at Whitworth College (now Whitworth University). His course assignments ranged from classes for non-majors up to senior-level biochemistry. During that time he was the pre-medicine advisor for the college. His research interests were in the relationship between biochemistry and behavior and issues in mental illness, particularly depression. Other writing and teaching focused on questions in medical ethics. Dr. Calbreath retired as an emeritus associate professor of chemistry in 2006. He now enjoys writing science materials, traveling with his wife, playing traditional Southern music on his two guitars, and spending time with his two daughters and four grandchildren.

Dr. Jennifer Wilson

Dr. Jennifer Neal Wilson received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Michigan State University in 2007.  Her research focused on hormones, brain and behavior in green anole lizards.  Although Dr. Wilson enjoyed her time in the laboratory, she was most excited when doing outreach events for Lansing, MI area K-12^th grade students during Brain Awareness Week each year.  Following graduation from MSU, she accepted a position as the Children’s Ministry Director at Faith Church in Lansing, MI where she had the opportunity to teach preschool through 5^th grade children and mentor adult and teenage volunteers.  After having her first child, she began her career in motherhood.  She is still passionate about teaching her preschool classes at church and loves spending as much time with her husband and two sons as possible.

Dr. Sedelia Rodriguez

Dr. Rodriguez earned her Bachelors degree in Geology in Los Angeles, California. Following her graduation, she briefly taught as a substitute teacher, teaching K through 12 and special education classes. She then worked for private industry as a staff Geologist with an environmental consulting firm, where she headed groundwater monitoring. Dr. Rodriguez worked with local and state regulatory agencies and the Environmental Protection Agency on many projects. Later, she resumed her education by moving to Miami, Florida, to pursue a Ph.D. in Geology at Florida International University. Dr. Rodriguez completed her Ph.D. in 2006. That same year, she was offered a position as a Post Doctoral Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in New York, where she worked for the next three years. Dr. Rodriguez studied and conducted research focused on the geology of the planet Mars.

Dr. Rodriguez is an Igneous Petrologist and Geochemist, who is passionate about volcanoes. Dr. Rodriguez travels to different volcanoes around the world as her favorite activity. She not only enjoys the geology offered by these fascinating structures, but also enjoys learning about the cultures that surround them. In addition to teaching at the grade school level, Dr. Rodriguez has been a College Professor, teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. Dr. Rodriguez strongly encourages open communication with her students, and thoroughly enjoys teaching and interacting with her students.

Mrs. Karen Wood

Karen Wood, received her B.A. from California State University, Chico, in Liberal Studies and a Minor degree in Child Development in 1982. Karen began her teaching career in Zuni, NM, at St. Anthony’s Indian Mission School teaching 5th grade. Karen is a 25 year veteran teacher of preschool – middle school students in public and private schools. Karen currently owns and opperates Intelligent By Design Science Enrichment Education (IBD-SEE) where she tutors and offers science classes to home schooled students. She loves using the Real Science-4-Kids curriculum for her most popular classes.