🧬The Best Secular Science Programs for Homeschoolers🧪🧫

In this in-depth post on science, we review the highest quality science curriculum, kits, apps and YouTube channels for K-12th grades. We also dive into labs, unschooling, science fairs and more.

Scientific knowledge allows us to develop new technologies, solve practical problems, and make informed decisions — both individually and collectively. How Science Works | Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley

Ensuring children have a strong Science and STEM education has been a major imperative (and even deciding factor) for families that choose to opt out of school and take learning into their own hands. Finding and vetting science programs can be challenging, so we sifted through tens of thousands of comments from parents in online homeschooling forums (paying particular attention to what science teachers and scientist parents had to say about the programs available for there for their kids) and finally, we tested the best options with our own students to bring you this overview of the highest quality, accurate, engaging, secular science resources available.

In this post, we’ll cover secular science curricula, subscription boxes and kits, adaptive learning apps, YouTube channels and online classes. We discuss who each program is a good fit for, and who it’s not. We’ll also address how to vet science curriculum, approaches to doing labs as a homeschooler, piecing together your own science curriculum, pros and cons of unschooling science, homeschooling resources available in Spanish, and the best free resources for learning science at home. All in all, we address the benefits and drawbacks of over 80 secular science resources in this post!

Outline of this post

1. ❓ Why Learn Science?

2. 🏡 Why Homeschool Science?

3. 🔎 Vetting Science Curriculum

   1. 👀 What we looked for

   2. 🟢 Green Light: NGSS Standards

   3. 🚩 Red Flags: “Neutral Science,” misdefining fact and theory, “opposing viewpoints” and other Red Flags

4. 🏆 Our Picks: The Best Secular Science Homeschool Curricula

   1. 📚 🔬 Full Curriculum

      1. 5️⃣ Top Five Full Science Curriculum 

      2. ❤️ Other Full Science Curriculum we Love

   2. 📫 Subscription Boxes and Science Kits

      1. 2️⃣ Top Two STEM and Science Subscription Boxes

      2. ❤️ Other STEM and Science Subscription Boxes We Recommend

      3. 📦 Other Kits and Resources for Experiments To Do at Home (Non-subscription)

   3. 🎥 The Best Science YouTube Channels

   4. 📱The Best Science Education Apps

5. 🔬Science Labs: Everything you need to know about getting high quality lab experience as a homeschooler and resources we love. 

   1. 🧫 In-person Labs

   2. 🖥️ “Dry Labs” or Virtual Labs

   3. 🧪 DIY at home labs

   4. 🛜 Online Classes with Labs

6. 🎡 Science Fairs: Finding one, planning one and the best Virtual Science Fairs

7. 🧩 Creating your own Science Curriculum

8. 🦋 Unschooling Approach to Science: What it is, Pros, Cons, Tips and Resources

9. 🇲🇽 Ciencia en Español: Homeschool Science Curriculum available in Spanish and other languages. 

10. 🆓 Free science programs for homeschoolers

11. 📆 Coming Soon: More “STEAMY” STEM, physics, mechanics, electronics and more! 

12. 📚 Works Cited