A Homeschool Class · Global Sovereign University · Life Science

Biology: How Life Works

The science of living things, taught for kids at the kitchen table: what makes something alive, how your body grows and heals, where plants and animals make their homes, the tiny world of cells and microbes, how living things depend on one another, and how to explore it all with your own experiments. Eight lessons, one for each chapter of the book. Free, no account, nothing to install.

Step one · Read

Read the lesson your way: younger reader, older reader, or the book’s own words. Press Listen to hear any part read aloud. The whole chapter is on the page too.

Step two · Do

Hands-on activities that answer back: sort living from not living, count your own pulse, turn foggy questions into fair tests, and family investigations to try at home.

Step three · Check

Short questions at the end. Miss one and you get a hint and another try. Get them all and the lesson is complete.

Progress is kept on this device only. Nothing is sent anywhere and nobody is asked who you are. Grown-ups: younger children do best when you read along with them.

The eight lessons

One for each chapter, in the book’s order. They open one at a time as each is finished.

    The Certificate of Comprehension

    When your child has finished the eight lessons, they can take a final check: questions from every lesson, graded on GSU’s server. A score of 80% or better prints a certificate with a serial number that anyone can verify. It is not a school grade or a credit, but you can list it on your child’s free Kitchen-Table Record Kit transcript.

    The final check opens when all eight lessons are live.

    Biology: How Life Works, cover

    The book behind the class

    Biology: How Life Works, Homeschool Edition, was written by our founder, Dr. Gene A Constant, and donated to the Foundation. Published by Global Sovereign University Press. The class is free. Book sales are how the Foundation pays for it.

    Global Sovereign University is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and book sales are its only income. A purchase is not a tax-deductible donation.

    Accreditation notice: Global Sovereign University is not an accredited institution and does not grant degrees, academic credit, licenses, or industry credentials. Learners who pass GSU's online exams earn GSU certificates of comprehension.