Self-Paced eLearning Course for DIVE Earth Science

This is our last year since our youngest is taking Calculus and Physics. Thank you for these programs and for helping our kids develop a love of math and science. You all have made a huge difference in our success with educating our kids! The older two are in college, chasing their dreams and this would not have been possible without DIVE. Our kids have been (informal) math tutors for their friends for years now. Your methods make so much sense to our kids but also to their friends when they are struggling to understand concepts. Our kids lovingly nicknamed Dr. Shormann Dr. Mathman when they were little. I still hear them refer to Dr. Shormann that way when they are quoting him. You’ve blessed our family! We appreciate you more than you know! Thank you!

We have used this with our 2 teen girls. It has been one of the best curriculum choices of our last 8 years of homeschooling. We also love Shormann math as well.

I highly recommend Dr. Shormann's DIVE Earth Science course. His course materials and lectures are engaging for students and help them come away with a greater appreciation of God’s creation. The course is a great way for middle school students to prepare for high school level science. The lab manual and lecture notes provide guidance and structure for them as they watch the online videos. I recommend purchasing the lab manual. My only "complaint" is that the lecture notes are only available digitally. Instead of printing the 174 pages, I made a copy of the file from Google Docs and have my son take his notes online. Thank you, Dr. Shormann, for creating these middle and high school science courses that give all glory to our marvelous Creator.

I would just like to thank you for your courses. This is our first year using Shormann products and we are beyond pleased. My son is using Dr. Shormann's lessons with Saxon and we both LOVE it! My daughter is using Dr. Shormann's Pre-Algebra and Earth Science courses. We are so very thankful to have found you. God has greatly blessed our homeschool through you.

We love DIVE self-paced eLearning science course(s)! While the lab kit is optional, I highly recommend it...Lab day is our favorite day!

My 7th grade son is loving this course and learning a lot. And I enjoy the fact that it is auto-graded! Thank you DIVE!

“I had given up on finding a Christian-based Earth Science curriculum for my 9th grader that didn't require me to struggle to teach it myself, until a friend discovered DIVE. There are great, beautifully illustrated, Christian-based Earth Science curriculums out there, but unless you have a science background, it can be difficult to teach it yourself when you get to the upper grades. We especially struggled with the lab experiments. We would be all excited when the box of interesting-looking, colorful (and expensive) lab supplies arrived, but would soon be bogged down in trying to follow detailed instructions we couldn't figure out. DIVE Earth Science COMES WITH A TEACHER giving the lecture and demonstrating the labs while giving step by step lab instructions on VIDEO. The suggested weekly schedule breaks the lessons down into digestible pieces that don't overwhelm the student. The student learns to take notes during a lecture - a crucial skill they will need to have in college. They are encouraged to use their notes to take the review quizzes and they quickly learn that the better notes they take, the better they do on the quiz! The curriculum is affordable - $80. Lab supplies have to be purchased separately, but the good thing is that the teacher says you can do as many or as few of the experiments as you want or can afford because they can watch the experiments on the video. Of course, you are encouraged to do as many as you are able since we do learn more by doing. Overall, I have been very pleased with this curriculum and highly recommend it!

As a professor myself PhD-prepared, I am SO grateful to have come across this amazing top-notch curriculum for my middle-schooler who I homeschool. We struggled to find math and science curriculum that is cutting edge and rigorous until we found DIVE. I count it as a privilege that our son has access to a PhD-prepared scientist teaching the lessons, such as Dr. Shormann. Homeschool should be cutting edge, no less rigor than other types of schooling public or private. Our son has a learning disability (dyslexia) also and Dr. Shormann has unlocked our child who now says he wants to be a scientist or mathematician. Without Dr. Shormann's curriculum our son would not have access to his full potential nor would he be now on an AP math and science track for high school.. Thank you Dr. Shormann for creating DIVE and for your dedication to high quality rigorous curriculum for homeschoolers! Thank You, Dr. Hannah E. Fraley, PhD

Personally, I think most of what is taught in earth science courses is boring BUT Dr. Shormann makes this topic so much more interesting. He's very engaging and I absolutely love how he always ties what he's teaching back to the truth of scripture. This is a challenging course and I was nervous that my 7th grader would struggle but he's doing very well and I believe it is because of the way the course is laid out and the fantastic way Dr. Shormann teaches. Finding his courses has been a great blessing!