Description
Apologia’s online homeschool Marine Biology course provides students with self-directed learning tools to ensure they thrive and master the concepts taught throughout this course.
One-Year Access
Students will receive access to the self-paced version of Exploring Creation with Marine Biology, 2nd Edition for 1 year from the date of purchase. They will complete the course via the Canvas learning platform.
What’s Included?
This online course includes the following:
- Textbook – Students receive access to a digital version of the textbook Exploring Creation with Marine Biology, 2nd Edition.
- Audiobook – An audio narration of the textbook enhances online reading and is beneficial for auditory learners or students with reading difficulty.
- Video Lessons – Marine Biologist Sherri Seligson provides video lessons throughout each module to strengthen students’ learning of the concepts presented in the course.
- Hands-on Experiments – Easy-to-do, at-home experiments are featured via video lessons to help students conduct hands-on experiments themselves.
- Review Questions and Answers – Independent review questions and answers and a Study Guide are included in each module to allow students to practice the concepts taught and prepare for end-of-module tests.
- Automatically Graded Tests – Automatically graded tests provide students with immediate results and feedback, fostering their independence. Students can take each test twice to ensure they understand and retain the material.
NOTE: You will not receive any physical copies of the textbook, MP3 Audio CD, or Solutions and Tests Manual. These items are incorporated into the online, self-paced portal.
Try a Demo
Try a free demo of Exploring Creation with Marine Biology, 2nd Edition, which features Module 1 as a test drive! The demo has no time limit and includes all the features found in the paid course.
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Technical Requirements
Before purchasing, please be sure you have read the browser and system requirements for Canvas, the platform on which Apologia’s self-paced courses are built. If you are unsure whether your system meets these requirements, please try the free demo.
Return Policy
Refund requests for an Apologia self-paced course must be sent to customerservice@apologia.com within 14 days from the date of purchase and before account activity reaches 10 hours.
Course Overview
This online homeschool Marine Biology course is rigorous and will provide your student with a thorough understanding of marine biology. We recommend it as a high school course, as it requires knowledge of general biology and assumes your student has previously participated in biological lab activities such as experiments, dissections, and microscopy.
All Apologia courses are written directly to the student, so even complex topics are accessible and easy to understand.
Topics covered in this course include the following:
- The Process of Life
- Geography of the Oceans
- Reproduction in the Sea
- Classifying Life in the Sea
- Kingdom Protista: The Unicellular Algae
- Kingdom Protista: The Marine Protozoans
- Kingdom Protista: The Multicellular Algae
- Kingdom Monera
- Kingdom Fungi
- Kingdom Plantae
- Marine Invertebrates
- Marine Vertebrates
- Marine Ecology
- The Intertidal Zone
- Estuary Communities
- Coral Reefs
- Continental Shelf Communities
- The Epipelagic Zone
- The Deep Ocean
- Ocean Resources
- Effects of Humans on the Sea
Engaging Video Lessons
Each section of the textbook features engaging videos to help your student better absorb the information presented in the text. Marine Biologist Sherri Seligson uses visual animations and on-location video clips to explain more complicated concepts in a three-dimensional, interactive way.
We’ve also included video demonstrations of all the experiments so your student can easily set up experiments at home.
Hands-on Experiments
Throughout this homeschool course, your student will connect video lesson instruction with hands-on experiments for maximum learning. Experiments utilize easy-to-obtain household items.
Automatically Graded Tests
The tests for the self-paced version of this course have been exclusively designed with automatic grading. After completing a test, students receive immediate results and explanations for all answers so they can re-review concepts as needed. They may repeat the test a second time to ensure they’ve understood all the material. The higher score of the two attempts will be recorded as the test grade.
Recommended Course Materials
Student Notebook
The Student Notebook for Exploring Creation with Marine Biology, 2nd Edition, is highly recommended and is sold separately.
Purchase Student NotebookApologia Student Notebooks are specifically designed to help students work independently and take responsibility for their studies.
The Student Notebook contains the following:
- Notetaking pages
- Instruction in the Cornell notetaking system
- Space to answer all study questions found in the textbook
- Lab report forms for each experiment in the text
Notetaking helps students retain information, review for tests, and produce a record of their thoughts as they connect the concepts presented in the textbook with their own ideas. Taking good notes can make the difference between mastering a concept and not quite understanding it.
Additionally, our Student Notebooks help students keep a carefully organized, detailed, and complete lab notebook. Using the included lab report forms, students can record the information they gather during experiments and master the process of writing a formal lab report.
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