Exploring Creation with Zoology 2
From whales to sea slugs, your child explores marine marvels while journaling, experimenting, and soaking up God’s handiwork—two lessons a week, zero prep for you.
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Exploring Creation with Zoology 2
The oceans cover most of our planet and are home to some of God's most fascinating creatures. Exploring Creation with Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day is a Christian marine biology curriculum that helps your child investigate the underwater world while discovering the wisdom and creativity of God's design.
Designed for grades K–6, this updated course guides your child through 14 lessons covering ocean habitats, currents, marine ecosystems, sharks, whales, fish, mollusks, crustaceans, sea stars, and more. Vibrant illustrations, conversational text, Scripture, and hands-on activities work together to make marine biology approachable and memorable.
Rather than simply reading about ocean life, your child will complete experiments, create projects, record observations, and explore the unique characteristics that allow marine creatures to thrive in their environments. Activities may include investigating camouflage, building ocean models, testing insulation concepts inspired by whale blubber, and other hands-on explorations that reinforce key scientific concepts.
The spiral-bound Student Notebooking Journal helps organize the learning experience with a built-in two-day-per-week schedule, narration prompts, notebooking pages, vocabulary activities, mini-books, copywork, review exercises, and experiment logs. The structured format makes it easy to stay on track without requiring a separate teacher guide.
Families who enjoy hands-on learning can add the optional lab kit, which provides many of the materials needed for the course's activities and experiments.
As your child studies marine habitats and the creatures that inhabit them, he will develop observation skills, scientific thinking, and a deeper appreciation for the complexity of God's creation.
Whether your child is fascinated by whales, intrigued by sharks, or simply curious about life beneath the waves, Exploring Creation with Zoology 2 provides a hands-on, Bible-based introduction to marine biology that encourages both discovery and wonder.
See sample pages from the Core Text, Notebooking Journal, Table of Contents, Lab Supply List, and more.
Young Explorer, Jeannie Fulbright's elementary science program is an in-depth science curriculum with gorgeous, full-color pictures and captivating, God-exalting text. It sparkles in comparison to the mainstream, dry-bones science program, and it utilizes what we believe is the most sensible method of teaching science, the immersion approach.
With their yearly superficial overviews, other science programs quickly become tedious as children encounter the repetitiveness of topic matters. The Young Explorer, science immersion program will allow your family to enjoy the depth and riches that genuine science can give. Most home-taught children who enjoy science are taught with a science immersion program. This program utilizes a combination of the Charlotte Mason and classical methods. You can rely on each Young Explorer book to acknowledge the evidence of Creation, have easy-to-follow self-contained lessons, include hands-on activities, and support the National Standards of Science.
Recommended for ages six through twelve, but written with a fourth-grader in mind, you may find that your older children will enjoy doing the coursework independently. At the same time, younger, less confident readers will prefer parental involvement. We encourage you to let your child choose the topic to study that captures your student's interest. Your student can use the Young Explorer titles in any order since each book's content stands alone.
Because of the concept levels, the publisher suggests that Earth Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology, and Chemistry & Physics are better suited for upper elementary grades. However, younger students can certainly follow along and learn well if older siblings have progressed into these last three books.
Publisher: Apologia Educational Ministries
Author: Jeannie Fulbright
Age Recommendation: 6 - 12
Grade Recommendation: K - 6th
ISBN: 9781946506979 (text), 9781946506986 (journal)
Format: Hardcover (text), Spiral-bound softcover (journal)
Size: 11.25" × 8.75" × 0.8" (text), 11" × 9" × 0.8" (journal)
Consumable: No (text), Yes (journal)
Faith-Based: Yes
Made in: USA
Lessons: 14
Edition: 2nd
- Old Schoolhouse EE Award 1st Place Winner
- Practical Homeschooling Reader Award Top Ranked by Homeschoolers
- One of Cathy Duffy's 102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum
- About.com Readers' Choice Winner
Get the optional Lab Kit for Exploring Creation with Zoology 2 here.
“This Apologia science book for elementary students will take you and your family on a thrilling educational journey of the underwater creatures of the sea." Read the Review
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
Yes, it is! The series is designed to be used in any order, so you can choose to start with whatever topic most interests your child.
Some of the books in the series have content that is a bit more advanced than others. In particular, Earth Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology, and Chemistry & Physics are better suited for upper elementary grades.
- December 11, 2022
Solid. Advanced
Hayes
This is a very thorough course on the ocean and its different creatures. I'd definitely save this for upper elementary. It's too much for younger children in my opinion. A good program for sure.
- September 7, 2021
Zoology
Amber N.
My six year old loves marine biology. It requires quite a bit of reading to him and sit down time. We generally read about 3 pages everyday which is enough to keep his attention and keep him excited for next time.
- September 20, 2020
Great!!!
Monica B.
I used this for my 4th grader who loves marine biology and all things animal related. He loved it and had fun with the experiments and learning more about the animals he loves.
- September 14, 2020
Swimming Creatures
Melanie
My daughter enjoyed learning about the marine mammals and some of the interesting creatures in the ocean. We didn't do the experiments, and she always finds the note booking a bit tedious and repetitive, but enjoys the textbooks. The writing style is friendly and written like the author is chatting with you. Still, they have far too much text for a younger elementary student, unless your child can deal with that. Upper elementary is a good age for them.
- September 11, 2020
Amazing book
Bryson
My kids and I love this book!
- July 11, 2020
Advanced
Brittany H.
I found this to be more advanced than the Astronomy book in the same series. It may be because this is an older edition...but the pages were less engaging with my younger children. There is so much information presented in this book though. It's truly a great resource. I was learning some things right along with my children.
- January 30, 2020
Exploring Zoology swimming creatures
Kerry D.
This book is full of information. It keeps my daughter engaged. Plenty of things to do outside of reading the chapters like experiments and projects
- May 9, 2018
Exploring Creation with Zoology 2
Melissa
Very interested in this.
- May 9, 2018
Exploring Creation with Zoology 2
Lisa A.
I like all the experiments in the book. As my son is obsessed with the ocean and water right now this was perfect. I love the notebook that comes with it. I appreciate all the different animals they talk about and all the activities that will help kids remember long beyond the end of the year.
- May 9, 2018
Exploring Creation with Zoology 2
Sheila, h.
Very interesting and I'm learning a lot with my daughter. Learning about the Christmas crabs was new to me.
