Description
Take a journey under the sea with God’s amazing creatures in Exploring Creation with Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day, 2nd Edition, geared toward elementary students. In this special ocean-centered zoology book, students will learn all about God’s glorious design of swimming creatures.
Young explorers will also have fun conducting interactive experiments and hands-on activities from the textbook and Notebooking Journal. They will even create their very own ocean box, adding in creatures as they learn about them.
Curriculum Overview
Students’ journey under the sea begins with an introduction to oceanography, which includes topics such as the oceans’ structure, salinity, tides, and waves. After becoming young oceanographers, students will continue their adventures by studying marine biology. They will learn all about God’s amazing swimming creatures, including whales, cephalopods, mollusks, gastropods, and more. They’ll learn not only about the creatures’ historical, physical, and behavioral significance but also about their important connections to humans.
This elementary Zoology course has 14 lessons that cover the following topics:
- Lesson 1: Amazing Aquatic Animals
- Lesson 2: Habits and Habitats
- Lesson 3: Cetaceans of the Sea Part 1
- Lesson 4: Cetaceans of the Sea Part 2
- Lesson 5: Sweet Sirenians & Playful Pinnipeds
- Lesson 6: Fishing for Bones
- Lesson 7: Super Sharks and Racing Rays
- Lesson 8: Stupendous Turtles of the Sea
- Lesson 9: Ancient Aquatic Animals
- Lesson 10: Armored Arthropods
- Lesson 11: Mighty Mollusks
- Lesson 12: Sensational Cephalopods
- Lesson 13: Notable Cnidarians
- Lesson 14: Enchanting Echinoderms and Purposeful Porifera
Textbook
Packed with vivid photos and graphics that bring swimming creatures and the oceans to life, the textbook provides engaging hands-on experiments and activities to help make learning stick.
Students will investigate topics such as powerful water pressure, dazzling density, and stupendous hagfish slime by conducting at-home experiments using common household items. These engaging, hands-on activities bring learning to life and create an atmosphere of fun!
Notebooking Journal
The Zoology 2 Notebooking Journal provides everything your student needs to complete this study of swimming 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 2 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 2.
