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From the rivers and streams to the mighty ocean, God filled the Earth's waters with animals great and small. Upon His Word, enormous whales sprung into being. At His command, billions of plankton leapt to life. On that day, millions of creatures like the strapping sea turtles, the skulking sharks, the delightful dolphins, and the soaring squid gladly joined their fellow sea animals. How joyously crammed with excitement was the fifth day of earth's existence.
Following your frolic with fish and sharks, you'll uncover the world of crabby crustaceans, sea snails, clams, and their soft bodied friends like the octopus, squid, and nautilus. You'll consort with corals, find flowers that devour plankton, see stars and feathers that walk, leap and roll, and descover dollars that disappear in the sand and sponges that clean more than you might think.
From the microscopic to massive, no stone is left unturned in your student's passage through the waters of the world. The creatures your student studies will come to life as your student creates replicas of them and adds them to his Ocean box - a miniature hand-crafted aquarium. As always, each lesson ends with an experiment or project reinforcing the scientific method and the concepts studied. Among other experiments and projects, your student will try on blubber, investigate a shark's ability to sense electrical currents, explore how whales can hear sounds that come from far away, and learn through experimentation which creatures make the best fossils. No matter how near or far you live from the ocean, you and your students will wonder at God's design in the amazing aquatic animals He formed and fashioned on the fifth day.
Slip on your scuba gear, and come explore with us!
Methodology:
This wonderful book uses the classical and Charlotte Mason methodology to give elementary school students
an introduction to God's incredible world of swimming creatures. Narration and notebooking are used to encourage critical
thinking, logical ordering, retention, and record keeping. Each lesson in the book is organized with a
narrative, some notebook work, an activity, and a project. Although designed to be read by the parent to
elementary students of various grade levels, it is possible for students with a 4th-grade reading level to read
this book on their own.
As you might expect from a book that uses the Charlotte Mason approach, the student notebook is
emphasized in every lesson. Students are told to make illustrations for each lesson and are given notebook
assignments to reinforce what they have learned.
CURRICULUM INFORMATION
Activities/Projects:
The text contains actual experiments on the preferences and habits of the birds your children see. These
experiments further enrich the learning experience. In addition to designing experiments with flies, crickets,
darkling moths, and caterpillars, they will also learn how to attract and catch insects for scientific study.
Recommended Use:
We recommend that you spend the entire year covering this book, devoting approximately two sessions per
week to the course. The sessions will be something like 30 minutes to an hour, depending on exactly what
you are doing on that day. Of course, if you want to cover the book in less than a year, you will simply have
to devote more time to it.
Pre-Requisites:
This course is recommended for students in grade levels K-6. It is recommended that students complete Zoology I before beginning Zoology II. |
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