High School texts (or DIVE course)used to prepare for DSST Physical Science?

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How to Use DIVE Integrated Chemistry & Physics identifies the following textbooks as appropriate for an honor-level high school Integrated Chemistry & Physics course:

[INDENT]DIVE Integrated Chemistry and Physics Internet Textbook
ABeka 9th Grade Science: Matter and Energy, 1st Edition
Bob Jones Physical World
Bob Jones Physical Science, 4th or 5th ed.
Prentice Hall Physical Science, Concepts in Action 2009[/INDENT]

Does anyone have experience using any of these (or the DIVE Integrated Chemistry & Physics course itself) to prepare for the DSST Physical Science exam ["Newton’s Laws of Motion, energy & momentum, thermodynamics, wave and optics, electricity and magnetism, chemistry, properties of matter, atomic theory & structure, chemical reactions"]?

Thank you.

[INDENT]R. Johnson
Delaware, USA[/INDENT]

It's impossible to know if a high school text will prepare your child for a college level class. It is VERY possible, however, that your high school student can study for their high school class using a college text. At that point, you have a high likelihood of being test-ready, but you still have taught an excellent high school class (which you'll award high school credit for anyway).

I do this in my homeschool, talk about it at length in my book, use it in my study groups, and discuss it on my Facebook page. That's not a shameless promotion of my "method," it's just how I build my own classes in my own home... and it works for lots of high school families. I believe we do our homeschooled teens a disservice when we teach to the test, so my approach is always that learning trumps credit earning.

1) Get the DSST Official GuidePage so you have the test content info on hand http://getcollegecredit.com/assets/pdf/d...ienceI.pdf

2) Use a college level textbook and match the chapters with the study guide. Create your plan around those chapters. Here's a free one from Saylor. http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/up...hysics.pdf

3) Use a DSST exam study curriculum like Instantcert (you are here) or Free CLEP Prep Principles of Physical Science DSST Study Guide - Free-Clep-Prep.com

4) Buy a "Dummies" or "Idiots" guidebook to help decipher complex lessons from the textbook. Match these chapters up with the text chapters. Here is one for $4 at Amazon Physics For Dummies: Steve Holzner: 0785555107915: Amazon.com: Books

5) Find a multimedia resource to integrate videos and other ways to receive the info. Khan Academy has a whole class on Physics! Match these up to the lessons from the text. https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics

6) Practice Tests (if you get 3/4 of the way through the class and it's going well, add these in to take your child the extra few degrees so they can pass. If it's not going well, drop these, finish the class, and go on with the next class)

hope that helps!