Guest Hollow’s High School Biology Curriculum
Guest Hollow’s Biology Curriculum is FREE!
Guest Hollow’s Biology is a free online *Christian homeschool biology curriculum. The course incorporates a free high-quality textbook, numerous online videos, tons of labs (with a multitude of budget and interest options), living books, a no-cost printable workbook with answer key, an independent study schedule, and more! It even incorporates Greek and Latin roots vocabulary!
*Secular families can also use our schedule with the original CK-12 biology book. Click here for more info.
Best of all, the online version of the Guest Hollow High School Biology Schedule is offered to you at no cost.
(Please note – We do charge a nominal fee for the printable version of the schedule.)
Why do we offer our customers something uncommon in today’s world, an absolutely FREE curriculum? Have a look at our about us page, and you’ll get a sense of who we are and why we care about homeschoolers like we do. Having said that, please consider using Guest Hollow as your source for other curriculums and materials. Despite being a tiny mom-and-pop company, we have a lot to offer, and it is growing all the time. Please explore our site as well as our social media presence and let us know what you think!
You can get Guest Hollow’s High School Biology Curriculum for free online, or you can click “Add to cart” if you’d like a printable version of the schedule. Continue reading below to see how to access all the freebies in this high-quality biology curriculum.
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Prerequisites: None
Approximate Daily Time Commitment:
45 min. – 1 hour depending on activities that are chosen and reading speed
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Grade Level / Age
Guest Hollow’s High School Biology Curriculum is suggested for:
● Grades 9-12
● Approximate ages
13-18
What You Get
High School Biology comes with:
✔ A printable PDF schedule
(with purchase only)
✔ An editable schedule in Microsoft Word format
(with purchase only)
✔ Access to a FREE online version of the schedule*
✔ A FREE printable workbook!
✔ Free lab printables
*Access to the online version of Guest Hollow’s Biology Curriculum schedule is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed due to various potential circumstances.
I’d like to see the book & resource list!
Click here to see the required books and resources for Guest Hollow’s High School Biology Curriculum.
Homeschooling with Guest Hollow’s Biology gets students enthusiastic about science!
Some of the things you’ll find in our biology curriculum:
- A “pretty” and visual, high-quality virtual textbook that is FREE!
- A variety of lab options without ONE focus (some biology programs are all about dissections and little else, etc.)
- Labs you can easily do at home with a minimum of investment
- Plenty of “living books” to supplement topics and bring concepts to life
- Activities, games & extras to make biology fun and easier to learn & retain
- Something laid out via a weekly format with a schedule you and your student can follow
- Videos to help illustrate concepts
- Printables to help gauge your student’s learning and to develop study skills
- Cross-curricular assignments, so biology isn’t studied as an isolated subject
Guest Hollow’s Biology Curriculum
brings science to life.
We’ve researched labs and activities from a variety of sources for a variety of budgets, created a comprehensive year-long daily/weekly schedule, put together workbook pages to help students better learn and retain the textbook material, researched and added in some terrific links, videos and other resources and added a list of supplementary reading to expand on the textbook concepts via “living books“.
There aren’t many options for a solid *Christian high school biology curriculum that is low cost and has lots of options, extras and engaging material to help expand concepts. That’s why we created Guest Hollow’s High School Biology by editing the well-known and esteemed CK-12 Biology Curriculum (thanks to a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0)!
We love science and want to give homeschooling families more options that are a bit different from the “norm”. Students and families love our curriculums! Try us, and you’ll see why!
*Secular families can use our schedule with the original CK-12 biology book. Click here for more info.
Does this curriculum come with __________?
☑ books?
Yes (and no). You get access to a FREE online textbook and a free workbook. However, you need to purchase the additional scheduled and optional unscheduled books separately. Learn more.
Click here to access the FREE online textbook.
Our free textbook has videos built right in, so your student can not only read about concepts, but see them in action, too!
Click here for the list of scheduled and unscheduled books and resources. We’ve scheduled in some additional books for a literature-based learning experience as well as optional kits and items to make the year more hands-on.
☑ a printable book list?
Yes, with a purchase. If you purchase the printable schedule, we provide a book list with a handy checklist to help you plan what you want to buy or borrow and in what format. We also let you know when each book is scheduled in, so you can arrange to check out books from the library before you need them!
If you’d like to see the free online version of the book list, click here.
☑ a schedule?
Yes. The same weekly schedule is available in 3 different formats: PDF*, Microsoft Word*, and online. Just open it up, and you are ready to learn! The PDF and Microsoft Word versions of the schedule are available only with a purchase.
Click here to see the online version of the schedule.
*Access to the online version of the curriculum schedule is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed due to various potential circumstances on our end and yours including and not limited to various computer, device, and internet configurations.
☑ a supply list?
Yes. Supplies are listed on this page: Biology Lab and Activities Supply List. If you purchase the printable version of the schedule, you will also receive a printable supply list (at the beginning of the schedule).
✘ a teacher’s manual?
No. The biology schedule is all you need! If you’d like to access the original CK-12 teacher’s manual check out the files section of the Guest Hollow Biology Curriculum User’s Group.
✘ tests?
No. There is no need for tests with this curriculum. However, some families use the workbook pages for open book testing purposes. There are also free quizzes parents have created and shared as well as the original, unedited CK-12 biology quizzes and tests in the files section of the Guest Hollow Biology Curriculum User’s Group.
☑ a workbook?
Yes. You get a FREE printable workbook to download (and answer key) with this curriculum. You also get a small packet of FREE printables for labs and dissections.
Guest Hollow’s Biology Workbook with Answer Key:
Click here to access the free biology workbook.
Biology Printables Packet:
Gallery of Photos From Real Families Using Guest Hollow’s Biology:
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Click or tap to see a schedule sample!
Take a look at the entire online version of the schedule here.
Take a look at a sample of the *printable schedule here:
*A printable schedule is available via purchase.
Want to know how to use the Guest Hollow PDF Schedule or the editable Microsoft version of our schedule? Go here! (This page gives lots of insight as to how our schedules work!)
Have a question about printing your Guest Hollow schedule and materials? We cover that, too!
Get your Guest Hollow High School Biology Curriculum freebies here!
Weekly Schedule
View an online daily/weekly schedule of assignments, labs, & extra activities. The online schedule is linked to chapters of the book online so each textbook chapter is just a click away! The schedule also contains links to all sorts of extra goodies like printables, games, activities and more to help your learning come to life.
Want a PRINTABLE version of the schedule? You can purchase one!
Supply List for a Buffet of Labs and Activities
Biology Lab and Activities Supply List
I’ve scheduled in a multitude of labs for every budget and interest level. You can use the free lab guide, or you can choose from a variety of other interesting experiments and even access free online labs & videos. If you are on a strict budget, don’t panic. There are plenty of labs that can be done for free or low cost!
Printable Workbook and Answer Key
Download a free printable workbook you can download with a variety of activities to help your students better retain and learn concepts.
Extra Biology Printables
Your student can use these printable pages to record lab procedures and outcomes.
You get the following printables:
- A science experiment/lab report with room to draw results or observations
- A microscope lab printable
- A dissection lab sheet
These are great additions to your student’s science notebook!
Biology Printables Packet:
Optional Genetic Experiment Schedule
Download a PDF to help you plan an optional 45-day genetic experiment and other activities.
Wisconsin Fast Plants Activities Schedule:
*Note: If you plan to use our botany program, you can choose to do this experiment for either biology OR botany.
It’s up to you!
F.A.Q. for our Biology Curriculum
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Please note: The printable version of the schedule is NOT free. Do not add it to your cart, if you want the free version. For the free online version, click here.
Reviews: See what our customers have to say!
If you’ve used Guest Hollow’s Biology, we invite you to write a review and leave your thoughts about our curriculum. Scroll down to the review box below the following customer reviews. We look forward to seeing your feedback!
Brenda Ellis –
I cannot even tell you how much Biology curricula I looked at before I finally (thankfully) found this one! It saved our year! It went along with my daughter’s learning style so much better than a boring textbook-only approach, heavy on the math with expensive, impossible labs. This one made biology do-able. We enjoyed (as a family) so many videos. The online lab options were life-savers some weeks. The worst part is having to leave stuff out because there is no way you can do it all! So much to choose from!
Raquel –
I was so anxious and felt so unequipped to teach my son his high school level courses starting this year. I wasn’t sure what curriculum I was going to use for science until a friend talk to me about this curriculum. I was so pleased and blessed to be a recipient of such a wealth of resources in this Biology curriculum. Couple of moms and I started our own co-op using this curriculum and are having such a blast seeing the kids enjoy it so much and learn in such an interactive way. I love all the resources that were put together for this curriculum. We love the videos the additional books and the fact that the links are free. The outstanding quality of this curriculum is beyond what I expected. I always dreaded having to create weekly schedules and planning a full curriculum. This course is set up week by week with all the instructions very clear and easy to follow even if my kids wanted to donut on their own.
Love it love it love it!!! I’m very greatful that someone took the time to bless others so abundantly! May God continue to bless your efforts.. Thank you for this gift!
Meleasa –
Here are two reviews of Guest Hollow Biology, the first one written by me, the second one by my teen daughter.
Parent Review: We used Apologia science books for a number of years and they worked well for us. When we got to Biology though my daughter began to struggle. The reading was difficult, the material hard to understand. She loves science, but I could see the joy of learning Biology fading fast. Enter Guest Hollow. It was recommended to me by other Homeschool Moms, and I couldn’t be happier with it.
First of all, the textbook is free, which made it easy to give it a try. The lessons are laid out in an easy-to-read format. Each lesson contains videos to help cement the concepts, which is especially good for students who are visual learners.
The curriculum comes complete with a weekly schedule that simplifies things for the Homeschool Parent. It really is Open and Go. There are optional labs within Guest Hollow Biology, plus supplementary reading suggestions, and printable worksheets (except for the last three chapters but I’m hopeful those will be added).
My daughter has done very well using this Biology curriculum. It’s mostly independent, and she has been able to understand and retain the material. I wasn’t sure about her using an online curriculum since we have never used one before, but she really likes that aspect of it.
Student Review: Guest Hollow is a very easy to use, very clean formatted biology. I really enjoy using it. I like how they explain things in an easy to understand form, not too over my head. I like the videos that are inserted throughout the text. It helps me grasp some concepts that I may not be getting just by reading the text. Some of them are interactive, which is neat cause it is almost like a lab.
So, to sum it all up: We love Guest Hollow Biology! I anticipate that we will follow this year up with Guest Hollow’s Chemistry. Thank you for a great curriculum!
Callie Conley –
I hated biology before I found Guest Hollow! I am a visual learner, and Guest Hollow Biology gives tons of videos to watch, reading interesting books, and hands-on activities like dissecting and experiments. Now I love biology thanks to Guest Hollow!
Avery –
As a student, this was a very fun biology textbook. I liked how you incorporated videos into the book. I fell like I could talk to someone about biology more after doing this course. Thanks for everything!
Leah Sours –
I liked all of the videos however, I felt like there were too many workbook pages.
Heather Powell –
Last summer, I researched biology curriculum that would prepare my 9th grader for the biology SAT subject test the following Spring. In 5th grade, she enjoyed Big Otter’s anatomy course, so we looked at what Guesthollow had to offer for high school. The free CK-12 online textbook that Guesthollow uses lines up well with what is included on the subject test. The videos, labs, extra books, and worksheets included in this curriculum helped her retain what she read in the textbook. In addition to Guesthollow’s biology curriculum, she reviewed what she had learned with Barron’s SAT subject test preparation guide. This book filled in what she needed to know about evolution and human anatomy for the test. Last May, my daughter took the SAT biology E subject test and scored a 740. I am grateful to Guesthollow for all the work put into this free high school biology curriculum, and we plan on using their Chemistry curriculum for 10th grade.
Kristina –
As a student, I found this Biology curriculum very interesting and fun. I was behind a few years, but this definitely helped me catch up. The videos were really interactive, plus I loved how the Christian’s perspective were added to the topics. However, I think the workbook assignments were too much work! Even so, I enjoyed this Biology curriculum. Thank you!
Joanna –
We have completed Guest Hollow’s Biology, Chemistry and Physics curricula. Biology is by far my daughter’s favorite! She enjoyed the “real life” books that were much more engaging than a boring textbook. She commented that each lab was “fun in it’s own way,” and “they helped solidify the content for me.” A great way to earn high school credit without tears!!!
Lilyan –
My daughter will be in 12th grade this fall. We started using Guest Hollow Biology when she was in 9th grade. Before that we had used Apologia textbooks for science which we thought were nice. When we switched to Guest Hollow we both thoroughly enjoyed her science studies and we learned and shared so much. The choice of books, videos, and games is an educational feast that was so pleasing to our minds! Thank you for prompting us to savor our science studies! My daughter is considering an occupational therapy career because of her enjoyment of science.
Nicole Echols –
So excited that we found Guest Hollow Biology this year! It’s been a fantastic fit for our family. The curriculum is engaging with just the right amount of videos, colorful illustrations and information. It keeps the attention of all three of my high schoolers. Thank you for making Biology come to life!
JENNIFER GUEST –
Thank you so much for the feedback! I’m so glad your highschoolers enjoyed the program! Thank you so much for posting. 🙂 It’s a big encouragement to me!
Kate Polakowski –
I found this Biology curriculum to be very engaging and useful. The sections on evolution made me research the evidence in greater depth and reminded me not to take everything I read for absolute fact. The different components such as videos and online activities helped my brain to focus and absorb information much better, and I enjoyed the writer’s funny quips throughout the text. This Biology course made me look forward to studying science! My only wish was that the curriculum had presented more fully the differing opinions in the argument about evolution and a two billion year old earth. Other than that I greatly enjoyed the course. Thanks for a lovely semester of biology!
JENNIFER GUEST –
Thank you so much for your review! I appreciate the feedback! <3 I’m so happy you enjoyed the course.
A Thankful High Schooler –
I loved this curriculum for it’s easy to understand nature, as well as your Christian worldview.
Thank you for your amazing work, my classmates and I loved it!
Jennifer Guest –
Thank you so much for leaving a comment! I’m so glad you and your classmates loved it. 🙂
Hope Smith –
I loved this biology curriculum. My sister and I did it together and loved it. Thank you for all the work you put into it.
Jennifer Guest –
Thank you so much for your comment! 😀 You totally made my day.
Mona Koerner –
We thoroughly enjoyed Guest Hollow Biology. The ability to choose activities was great. The literature suggestions were wonderful and my daughter found many things to read on her own as a result. I appreciated the online text with embedded videos we were able to read/watch as we went along much more interesting than a straight text book. We also enjoyed many, many good full length (hour long videos) we usually watched these for our lunch hour. Thank you GuestHollow! Biology became my daughter’s favorite subject this year.
Kendra C. (verified owner) –
I just wanted to leave a review for your Biology curriculum, which we just finished in June of this year. I was in 10th grade. I really enjoyed it. The lessons were easy to read, and they made sense! I have dyslexia, and it can be difficult to understand stuff, but your lessons made sense to me. They were funny at times, and I enjoyed the videos. (The ones I watched. 🙂 And I liked that fact that if I found a mistake, I could let you know, and you would fix it, and thank me. That was really nice. The work sheets were also super helpful, and made sense. The optional living books were also a super fun bonus! “For All the Tea in China” was so cool that I gave a report on it in our yearly end-of-school presentations. All in all, I really enjoyed your biology course, and I am super glad my mother made me do it. (And found it!)
Sincerely(!) Kendra
Andrea Mulder (verified owner) –
We used this curriculum with my freshmen daughter. Overall I thought the curriculum thorough and informative. Most of the accompanying books were useful, interesting and educational. My daughter learned biology in an interactive and satisfactory way.
Two critiques: I thought the books on evolution were good and relevant to the curriculum. However, the Answers books , while great for general apologetics, are not specifically biology. It felt irrelevant and therefore excessive in an already overflowing curriculum. For reference, we are a Christian family.
Second, there were way too many workbook pages for each section and I found it very difficult figure out which pages I could have her skip without losing content. I also found many of the workbook page questions written in tricky ways to make it difficult to understand. I think these need editing.
Jennifer Guest –
Thank you so much for your feedback! We didn’t write the workbook questions, CK-12 did – but I think that’s something we may consider changing in the future (to be like our other curriculum workbooks). I also appreciate your feedback about the Answers books. We’ll consider finding some substitutes! Thanks so much for leaving your review and for the excellent critiques! <3
Bex Buzzie –
Jen And Charles are probably the most genuine people I have encountered. They put their heart into their products because they have you in mind. They understand the struggles and pitfalls of traditional curricula like in the upper level sciences with a no math approach! It has been such a blessing to know they exist to support the homeschool community!
Jennifer Guest –
Awwww, thank you so much for the kind words! <3 We both enjoyed our FIRST podcast with you!!
To anyone reading these comments, go check out Bex’s site: https://thehomeschoolpodcast.org/ Our interview will go live in the middle of June 2022. 😀 Bex is such a sweet woman who really loves the homeschooling community and is working hard to support it! We loved working with her (once I got over my introvert panic attack -exaggerated but barely, lololol).
Leah S (verified owner) –
My 14 year old daughter loves this curriculum so much that she asked to continue Guest Hollow for her a science the duration of High School. The schedule is easy to follow and she loves the books that go along with it.
Ryan –
This Biology curriculum was not only fun but interesting and cool. This was easier to use that other curriculums I’ve used before. I’m thinking of using the guest hollow chemistry curriculum next year.
April –
It was fun! It was informative and interesting so I recommend it. One thing I would add is some lessons were so long it was hard to fit in without feeling overwhelmed. I also would appreciate if most of the videos weren’t for purchase only.
Thank you! 🙂
Angela M. (verified owner) –
We are so grateful for the Guest Hollow Biology this year. We are in our first year of homeschooling, and the schedule, list of books, etc. made it so easy for both of us (mom and son) to go through the curriculum. We BOTH learned a lot this year and enjoyed it so much! We can’t recommend it enough.
Isobel –
This biology curriculum was so fun and educational! I loved all the videos, and I really learned so many things. Thank you!
rosannas2016 (verified owner) –
I just finished Guest Hollow’s High School Biology, and I LOVED it! At the start of the school year, I started a biology from a different curriculum and I thought I’d NEVER like biology. After switching to Guest Hollow, I realized how fascinating and fun biology really is.
I love how Guest Hollow provides a wide variety of resources such as books, videos, and hands-on projects to cater to every learning style. Highly recommend!!
Erica –
Once again, GH delivers an absolute all star curriculum. My daughter actually looks forward to and, dare I say, loves science now. We love how well put together the schedule is. It allows her to do work independently with a few clicks. The use of books, videos, and optional experiments keeps it fresh and exciting!
Jennifer Jones (verified owner) –
Everything we have used from Guest Hollow has been amazing! I love all of the variety! Jenn and Charles Guest are just the most helpful couple when it comes to the curriculum. Always available when you have a question. You can tell so much time and love went into their work! It shows by how well it’s done! Love Guest Hollow and you will too!!!
Courtney (verified owner) –
I tell everyone about this science curriculum! It’s hands-on, multi-sensory, literature based, and it is such a good fit for my teenage boys!
Courtney (verified owner) –
I forgot to mention that the customer service is amazing! They get back with you right away, are very active on social media answering all questions, and even gave me a refund when I realized I missed out on a 15% off sale (they refunded the sale amount). I’m so impressed.
Alainna –
I never liked doing science because I found it boring and there is a lot of curriculum that endorses evolution and leaves God out of the picture, which makes me upset and wish i could just skip doing science, but doing Guest Hollow made science fun and entertaining for me. I love how they show thet God is the creator and evolution has no part in it ( I enjoyed reading the New Answers books for that ), they had short fun videos that helped me remember the stuff I learned so I could answer the questions, and it had some good humor. I’m also thankful that it was out for free which was really nice and helpful. I think the people who worked on this biology curriculum did a wonderful job and I thank God that my mom found Guest Hollow and definitely recommend getting it.
Fi –
Awesome course that explains creation science well alongside biology. Some book are scheduled with the wrong chapter names!!!
Jenn Guest –
Thank you so much for your review! We would love to know which books have the wrong chapter names. 🙂 Please send an email to guesthollow@memorableplaces.com and we’ll make any corrections that need to be made!
C Guest –
Please make certain that you have purchased the specific book linked in the booklists. If you are getting a different edition of the book there is a chance the page or chapter numbers will not line up. So please be certain that the ISBN you have purchased matches exactly the ISBN and the edition we have linked in the books and materials lists! 🙂 🙂
Jessica K –
My son loves this curriculum! 🙂 Any plans on making chemistry and physics courses using the CK12 online texts?
C Guest –
Nope! We already created Guest Hollow Chemistry and physics programs!!!
For the younger set we have a combined Chem and Physics curriculum called Actins and Reactions:
https://guesthollow.com/store/actions-and-reactions/
For high schoolers we have:
Guest Hollow’s VERY popular Chemistry in the Kitchen:
https://guesthollow.com/store/high-school-chemistry-curriculum/
and… Guest Hollow’s Math-Free physics Curriculum:
https://guesthollow.com/store/high-school-conceptual-math-free-physics/
Enjoy! 😀