“Apologia’s second zoology book will take you and your family on an exploration into the wonders of the swimming creatures made on the fifth day of creation. You’ll begin with a big splash from the whales and dolphins, then spy on seals and meet manatees before swimming with the sea turtles, snakes, and salamanders. You’ll even peek in on the primeval plesiosaurus and its pals.
Following your frolic with fish and sharks, you’ll uncover the world of crabby crustaceans, sea snails, clams, and their soft bodied friends like the octopus, squid, and nautilus. You’ll consort with corals, find flowers that devour plankton, see stars and feathers that walk, leap and roll, and discover dollars that disappear in the sand and sponges that clean more than you might think.
From the microscopic to massive, no stone is left unturned in your student’s passage through the waters of the world. The creatures your student studies will come to life as your student creates replicas of them and adds them to his “Ocean Box” - a miniature hand-crafted aquarium. As always, each lesson ends with an experiment or project reinforcing the scientific method and the concepts studied. Among other experiments and projects, your student will try on blubber, investigate a shark’s ability to sense electrical currents, explore how whales can hear sounds that come from far away, and learn through experimentation which creatures make the best fossils. No matter how near or far you live from the ocean, you and your students will wonder at God’s designs in the amazing aquatic animals He formed on the fifth day.”
Curriculum: Apologia: Exploring Creation with Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day
Materials needed:
Textbook: 1 per family
Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day: Exploring Creation with Zoology 2, Jeannie Fulbright CBD Stock No: WW337012
Notebooking Journal: 1 per student, Jr. Notebook or Regular
Students will also need a cardboard box for the Ocean box described above.
Homework will consist of:
- They (or you to them) will be reading about half a chapter. Reading is something that can be done easily at home, leaving the class room experience for group discussion, review, projects and most fun of all—experiments.
- Prepare for class group discussion by having the student narrate back to you what has been read.
- Completing some notebooking pages. These will be varying. They can write in facts they have learned, draw pictures, cut out pictures and paste them etc. Once again this is to aid them in remembering what they have learned; and allow them to use their creativity.
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