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.
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.
Try DemoOne-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:
- Digital 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 your students’ reading experience and benefits auditory learners or students with reading difficulties.
- Video Lessons – Instructor Sherri Seligson provides video lessons throughout each module to strengthen students’ understanding of the course concepts.
- Hands-on Experiments – Easy-to-do, at-home experiments are featured via video instruction to help students conduct hands-on experiments on their own.
- Review Questions and Answers – Each module includes independent review questions and answers along with a study guide to allow students to practice the concepts taught and prepare them for end-of-module tests.
- AutoGrade+ – AutoGrade+ provides dynamic online testing for Apologia courses with multiple attempts, immediate answer feedback, and automatic grade recording. AutoGrade+ can also be purchased separately for an additional student if needed.
NOTE: The online course does not include the student notebook. It is highly recommended that you add it to your self-paced set.
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 students 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 incorrect 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.
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
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 30 days of purchase, with only module 1 accessed.