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All 36 weeks of 12th grade science, planned and ready, with the exact topic for every week below. Start with Week 1 free, no card needed.
Open the free Week 1 lesson See plans
Every lesson has an on-page lab or model, diagrams, and a quiz. Grades 6–8 add a full lab notebook: hypothesis, variables, three trials, averages, a chart, and a claim-evidence-reasoning write-up.
Topics and standards come straight from the live course. Standards codes are listed for reference; Life Academy is built to help meet homeschool requirements in all 50 states.
| Week | Topic | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capstone launch: pick an NGSS investigation or an engineering problem | for example |
| 2 | Write a testable question and name IV, DV, and controls | NGSS Science and Engineering Practices |
| 3 | Literature brief: three sources, one claim each | |
| 4 | Methods draft and safety plan (IRB-lite) | |
| 5 | Prototype or experiment cycle 1 — collect raw data | |
| 6 | Measurement error, significant figures, and a repeatable table | |
| 7 | Mid-capstone gate: does the question still match the data? | |
| 8 | Methods defense: why this design beats a weaker one | |
| 9 | Cycle 2 — change one variable only |
| Week | Topic | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Troubleshoot a failed trial, contamination, or a broken prototype | |
| 11 | Analyze: graph, pattern, outlier honesty | |
| 12 | Quarter review: CER from your own notebook | |
| 13 | Build week: apparatus, code, or model at credit quality | |
| 14 | Iterate: keep one change, kill one change, write why | |
| 15 | Near-peer review: someone else marks holes in your CER | |
| 16 | Midyear gate: freeze the question — no topic-hopping | |
| 17 | Public demo prep: 3-minute oral plus one figure | |
| 18 | Polish experiments or final prototype tolerances |
| Week | Topic | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Lock the dataset — no silent edits after this week | |
| 20 | Rehearse against a timer; answer two hostile questions | |
| 21 | Run the final protocol or stress-test the build | |
| 22 | Limitations: what your data cannot claim | |
| 23 | Poster or board: title, figure, method, result, next test | |
| 24 | Formal peer review on a rubric (not “looks nice”) | |
| 25 | Write the final report in IMRaD order | |
| 26 | Showcase prep: notebook on the table, safety visible | |
| 27 | Oral explainer: teach a 9th grader your result |
| Week | Topic | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | Transcript packet: hours, standards tagged, artifacts listed | |
| 29 | Public demo A with an outside listener | |
| 30 | Demo B / repairs from demo A notes | |
| 31 | Lab cleanup, inventory, and notebook archive | |
| 32 | Credit packet: scan, caption, and date every artifact | |
| 33 | Seal the year: what a college or trade reader sees in 90 seconds | |
| 34 | Narrative: the problem, the failed try, the result | |
| 35 | Bridge: AP, dual-enrollment, trade, or work — what this proved | |
| 36 | Science credit locked: final teach-back and signature page |
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Week 1 is free with no card needed: open the Week 1 science lesson. Weeks 2–36 unlock with a Student plan ($35/month) or a Family plan for up to 4 students ($69/month).
Plan on about 50–60 minutes a day for science. There is one lesson per week of the school year, broken into short daily steps.
No. Life Academy is not accredited. It's built to help meet homeschool requirements in all 50 states, and parents are the school of record. Why that's usually fine.
Yes. Every lesson prints as a worksheet with a separate parent answer key.
Each full-year course is worth 1.0 credit on the parent-issued transcript. Colleges set their own admission rules, so check with the schools your teen is considering.
Life Academy is a parent-directed online K–12 curriculum, built to help meet homeschool requirements in all 50 states. It is not accredited, and parents issue the homeschool transcript. Nothing here is legal advice. Check your state's law at HSLDA. Questions? Email david.dukes77102@gmail.com.