Years 7-8
Texts
“A Class of Their Own” series: Archaea, Protists, Fungi, Bacteria, Plants, Animals
Ellen J. McHenry
Living Books
Wicked Plants (Stewart)
Wicked Bugs (Stewart)
Life of the Spider (le Fabre)
Life of the Fly (le Fabre)
A World in a Drop of Water
Years 9+
Online Classes
Thinkwell Honors Biology and Thinkwell AP Biology
Texts
Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments
CK-12 Biology (free online digital textbook)
Comprehensive list of options from Homeschool Diner for Biology
Living Books
General Biology
The Panda’s Thumb (Gould)
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
The Nature of Life: Readings in Biology
Life’s Matrix (Ball)
Gulp (Roach)
Stiff (Roach)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Microbiology
The Microbe Hunters
A Field Guide to Bacteria
Parasite Rex
Genetics / Evolution
Genome (Ridley)
The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
Cats Are Not Peas (and Genetics of Calico Cats – online article)
The Seven Daughters of Eve
The Double Helix (Watson)
Triple Helix
10,000 Year Explosion
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
Before the Dawn
Botany
Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds
What a Plant Knows
Zoology / Entomology / Classification
Diversity of Life (Wilson) – Environmental Science
In a Patch of Fireweed
The Life of Birds (Attenborough)
The Tree of Life (Lecointre)
Oxygen (Lane)
Online Articles
Websites
The Biology Project (free online text and problem sets)
Biology Mad (online A-level study guide for UK)
Eclectic Ed 