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Exploring Creation with Zoology 3: Land Animals of the Sixth Day

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Apologia Science presents its fifth book in the Young Explorer Series. This elementary-level science curriculum uses the Charlotte Mason methodology to give elementary students an introduction, to the incredible world of land animals.

It begins with a discussion of how scientist observe land animals and what careers are available to people who are interested in them. Using Genesis 1:24-25 as a guide, it splits land animals into three main - wild animals (like lions and bears), livestock (like horses and cattle), and creatures that creep (like spiders and worms). The wild animals are covered first, allowing students to study caniforms, feliforms, marsupials, primates, and rodents. The students will then learn about livestock studying hoofed animals like ungulates and ruminants. Finally students will study reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and worms as examples of creeping creatures.

As you might expect from a book that uses the Charlotte Mason approach, the student notebook is emphasized in every lesson. Students are asked to make their own illustrations, mark their habitat of creatures they study on a map, and learn how to identify animals by their tracks. Other assignments may include making a “canine newsletter”, making a comic strip about what to do if you encounter a bear in the wild, and making a storyboard for a documentary

The activities and projects use easy-to-find household item and truly make the lessons come alive! They include using candies and construction paper in an experiment about camouflage, exploring the thermal consequences of dark skin as compared to light skin, capturing animal tracks in cement, reconstructing rodent skeletons from owl pellets, and doing a population study using the “mark and recapture” method.

Most importantly, of course, a creation world view is stressed throughout. Time and time again, God is glorified as the Master Creator of all that the students are studying.

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