Description
Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Marine Biology, 2nd Edition is one of the few homeschool science courses that includes an entire ecology education. It gives students self-directed learning tools to ensure that they thrive and master key science concepts and will provide your students with a thorough understanding of marine biology.
We recommend it as a high school course as it requires knowledge of general biology and assumes that your student has previously participated in biological lab activities such as experiments, dissections, and microscopy.
Course Overview
God designed the earth’s intricate ecosystem for His glory and the needs of those He created. This course will help students accurately understand the ocean’s ecosystems and resources in order to know how to best steward them.
Topics covered include:
- 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 of the Sea
Textbook
The Exploring Creation with Marine Biology, 2nd Edition, student textbook is written in a conversational format with the author talking directly to your student. Your student is guided through key learning strategies like how to think critically about what they are learning, identifying important parts of the information presented, taking meaningful notes, and completing experiments.
Testing
There are two testing options for this course. You can choose AutoGrade+, our auto-graded online testing, or the traditional Solutions Manual and Tests containing answers to study guide questions, test solutions, and a set of student test pages. An extra set of test pages is also available as an add-on.
Student Notebook
The student notebook for Exploring Creation with Marine Biology, 2nd Edition, is highly recommended. It is designed to help students foster the independence, organization, and preparation they need to thrive academically.
Notetaking helps students retain information, review for tests, and record their thoughts as they connect the concepts presented in the textbook with their own ideas. Taking good notes can bridge the gap to mastering a concept with the following advantages:
- Students stay focused on what they are reading.
- Students pay closer attention, which increases their retention.
- Students have notes in their own words to review for tests.
- Students learn to connect new information to what they already know.
Additionally, the student notebook helps students keep a carefully organized, detailed, and complete lab notebook. Students can use the included lab report forms to record the information gathered during experiments and master writing a formal lab report.
The student notebook contains:
- Note-taking pages
- Instruction in the Cornell note-taking system
- Space to answer all study questions found in the textbook
- Lab report forms for each experiment in the text
Video Lessons and Experiments
In the streaming video lessons for Exploring Creation with Marine Biology, Sherri Seligson provides instruction on each module of the textbook, using visual animations and on-location video clips. Additionally, the videos include experiments, labs, and activities so parents and students can better understand how to complete the experiments and activities at home.
These engaging video lessons help students absorb the concepts in a richer and more engaging way, and visual animations help explain more difficult concepts in a three-dimensional, interactive way.
These streaming videos are a 15-month rental and are accessed through your Apologia account.
Watch a sample video lesson with Sherri Seligson.
Audiobook
The audiobook version of Exploring Creation with Marine Biology textbook is the perfect accompaniment to the textbook for students who are auditory learners, slow readers, or have learning challenges that make reading difficult.
Product Flip Through
Look inside the textbook, student notebook, solutions manual, and tests for Marine Biology.
