I’m working on our GriffinScience Text(s)book for next “year” (not sure why we call them school years…) and it’s coming together nicely.

We aren’t going to be using a standard textbook for many reasons. Cost is one, but the assumption that science can be learned via a medium like a textbook is antithetical to the scientific endeavor.

Instead, I’m writing everything (along with student work during the “year” that will be incorporated into the book) that will be the backbone of our class. Of course, the students will be doing most of the work and this is a labor of love to provide them with pointers.

This isn’t me emptying my head and asking them to memorize the facts I proclaim. Instead, this is more of a compass for their own studies of Physical Science.

All of the excerpts in the book are from primary texts by scientists and in the public domain. This will all be public domain as well.

I’ll have it all out there on http://texts.griffinscience.com soon if you’d like to follow along and maybe learn a thing or two about your universe from the incredible young people with whom I’ll be working.

Here is the HTML outline that you can expand:

> GriffinScience Textsbook

Here is text file with the outline you can download:

> GriffinScience TextsBook.txt

And here is an .rtf file you can open in Word or Pages or OpenOffice:

> GriffinScience TextsBook.rtf

I’m also wrapping up on an mp3 version as well as an iPod/iPad/iTouch app (and hopefully Android as soon as I get into the App Builder beta since I don’t have time to learn a new programming language after slogging through Objective-C this summer).

I’ll keep you posted on when those are in the App Store.

More soon!