Description
Exploring Creation with Zoology 3: Land Animals of the Sixth Day is a homeschool science curriculum for elementary students. Each lesson is written in a conversational tone, and created using vivid graphics, engaging lessons and hands-on projects that will help your student understand animals and their ecosystems in a whole new way!
Curriculum Overview
Zoology involves much more than just animals! This is why, in Apologia’s Zoology 3 course, your student will be taken on an adventure around the Earth’s biomes to explore and understand land animals and the environments they live in. They’ll explore jungles, deserts, forests, and farms and even venture into their own backyard to investigate and enjoy the creatures God has created.
This elementary Zoology course has 14 lessons that cover the following topics:
- Lesson 1: Introduction to the Animals of Day Six
- Lesson 2: Carnivorous Mammals
- Lesson 3: Caniforms Continued
- Lesson 4: Feliform Carnivores
- Lesson 5: Marsupials
- Lesson 6: Primarily Primates
- Lesson 7: Rodentia and the Rest
- Lesson 8: Ungulates
- Lesson 9: Order Artiodactyla
- Lesson 10: Orders Squamata and Rhynchocephalia
- Lesson 11: The Rest of the Reptiles…and Amphibians
- Lesson 12: Dinosaurs
- Lesson 13: Arthropods of the Land
- Lesson 14: Gastropods and Worms
Textbook
Packed with vivid photos and a variety of hands-on activities and experiments that bring Zoology to life, the student textbook provides engaging hands-on activities to bring learning to life.
Some of the activities and experiments your student will complete in this course are playing a predator with colored candies that hide in camouflage, acting like a primate to judge depth perception, discovering why giraffes have high blood pressure, identifying animal tracks, dissecting owl pellets and its last meal, and much more!
All activities and projects in this course use easy-to-find household items and truly make the lessons fun!
Notebooking Journal
The Zoology 3 Notebooking Journal provides everything your student needs to complete this study of land animals. 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
- Scripture copywork in both cursive and print
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 3 textbook is the perfect accompaniment to the textbook for students who are auditory learners, slow readers, or have learning challenges that make reading difficult.