Description
Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day, 2nd Edition is a homeschool science curriculum for elementary students. In this book, students will explore animal classification and the dynamics of flight and will be able to connect the design they see in these incredible creatures to their Creator.
They’ll also have fun engaging with the birds and animals around them as they complete the exercises from the textbook and Notebooking Journal. They’ll learn how to attract local bird species and then identify them by looking at their unique physical characteristics, diverse nests, and intriguing domestic practices.
Curriculum Overview
We believe your child’s education is at its best when learning begins with curiosity. That’s why this course was designed for elementary students with no prerequisite. We use practical concepts and things in their world to help them learn that science isn’t just a class—it’s a means for them to experience and discover their world!
In Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures, 2nd Edition, students will soar to new heights as they learn about the dynamics of flight and the uniqueness of birds, the value and misconceptions of bats, and the anatomy of insects (they’ll even get to collect and study some for a project!). After students complete this zoology study, they will never view or interact with nature in the same way again.
This elementary Zoology course has 14 lessons that cover the following topics:
- Lesson 1: What is Zoology?
- Lesson 2: Entomology
- Lesson 3: Butterflies and Friends
- Lesson 4: Supremely Social
- Lesson 5: Bee Happy
- Lesson 6: Battling Beetles, Filthy Flies, and Bona Fide Bugs
- Lesson 7: Interesting Insects
- Lesson 8: Tyrannical Pterosaurs
- Lesson 9: Birds in Abundance
- Lesson 10: Fascinating Feathers
- Lesson 11: Fabricated for Flying
- Lesson 12: Nature’s Nifty Nests
- Lesson 13: Matching and Hatching
- Lesson 14: Beloved Bats
Textbook
Packed with vivid photos and a variety of hands-on activities, the textbook provides an engaging experience that lifts learning off the page. All the activities use easy-to-obtain household items and truly make the lessons come alive!
Some hands-on activities your student will complete include designing and experimenting with gliders, crafting a field notebook, building a suet feeder and seed feeder, testing which colors attract birds, building a birdbath, constructing a birdhouse, and much more.
Notebooking Journal
The Zoology 1 Notebooking Journal provides everything your student needs to complete this study of flying creatures. It will serve as your child’s place to complete every assignment.
What’s Inside?
- A Suggested Schedule with a breakdown of exactly what students need to complete each week
- Templates for your student to record what he or she learned in each lesson, using both words and illustrations
- Note-taking pages with prompts to help teach the student how to identify and record important information from the text
- Creative templates for completing the notebooking assignments
- Project Pages and other sheets for your student to use to keep records of experiments, projects, and activities completed throughout the course
- Beautiful, full-color Miniature Books for your student to create, encouraging him or her to record facts and information learned in each lesson
- Helpful and engaging graphics to help your student visualize and understand concepts
The Benefits of Using a Notebooking Journal
- Facilitates retention and provides documentation of your student’s education. The unique personal written and artistic expressions incorporate both sides of the brain.
- Allows flexibility for multilevel learning. A twelve-year-old student may write an essay and make an elaborate illustration, while a six-year-old may write one sentence with a stick-figure drawing.
- Improves writing skills and penmanship.
- Helps students record experiences, observations, and thoughts.
- Engages students in the scientific process.
- Provides a written history that students can reference as they explore new subject areas.
- Gives your students a place to record and organize experiences and observations.
- Provides a place for students to review their notes, create opinions, and draw conclusions about how their world works.
Audiobook
The audiobook version of the Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day 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 and notebooking journal for Zoology 1.
