Take your kids on a journey through the Universe this year!
Exploring Creation with Astronomy investigates everything in space, from the sun, the moon, the planets, comets, asteroids and meteors to stars, galaxies and space travel. Through this in-depth study, your students will be able to answer questions that stump most adults, such as how to tell a planet from a star in the night’s sky, what causes auroras, how the sun's light gives us color, why we have seasons, how and why the moon goes through phases, how to find Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and, most importantly, why thermonuclear fusion and short-period comets give us powerful evidence for a young earth creation model for origins.
Each of the fourteen lessons is written to the students with engaging prose that captures even the youngest child's attention.
Throughout each lesson, narration prompts encourage students to relate their new knowledge in their own words, increasing comprehension and retention. Included are creative and fun notebooking assignments, vocabulary and learning activities that further their experience with the lesson. Through experiments and projects, your students will engage in hands-on learning such as building a small, but powerful rocket, building a telescope, discovering how radar works, making a compass, as well as creating an actual model of a solar eclipse.
These and many more interesting activities and learning adventures will become part of your child’s knowledge base as they become experts in astronomy over the course of the year.
As with all the books in the Fulbright Science Series, this wonderful book includes narration prompts, notebooking assignments, review questions, projects, experiments, and an accompanying Notebooking Journal that brings all their learning, creativity and projects together in one beautiful keepsake.
Get ready to explore all things green, growing, and wonderfully alive. From the anatomy of a tiny seed to the tops of the giant sequoias, your student will fall in love with the world God created right outside the door. They’ll dissect flowers, pollinate plants, grow their own blooms to attract birds, butterflies, and bees, and even start an organic garden as they learn how to grow food for their family.
Students will identify the plants and trees in their own yard and create a field guide to match. They’ll explore mycology, mushrooms, mold, spores, lichens, and the hidden world of fungi that helps God’s creation flourish. From making herbal soap and tracking a leaf from its first days to its last, to exploring fern spores and measuring pollution with a lichenometer, your students will find the outdoor world full of fascinating discoveries.
Nature walks, hikes, gardening, and camping will take on new meaning as you and your students comprehend the complexity and diversity God created within the Kingdom Plantae.
As with all the books in the series, every lesson includes engaging text, narration prompts, and notebooking assignments that bring the subject to life. Students will make comic strips of pollinating creatures, write stories, diagram and illustrate roots from their yard, grow plants, keep records, and create a beautiful keepsake of all they have learned.
How do bats use echolocation? Which insects do ants keep as pets? What are the stages of complete and incomplete metamorphosis? How can you distinguish insects from other arthropods? Which Biblical writers described pterosaurs in ancient texts? How do birds find their way during the thousands of miles they travel while migrating?
Answers to these and many more fascinating questions about the flying creatures God created can be found in Zoology 1.
Your children will begin by exploring the scientific aerodynamics of flight, along with a comprehensive study of animal classification. Then they’ll soar into the exciting world of birds. Students will learn how to attract birds to their yard, identify species, and begin their own birding “Life List,” much like birders around the world.
They’ll discover fascinating information about nests and nesting habits, songs and calls, feather design, migration, and the remarkable instincts God placed within these creatures. Included are experiments using the scientific method that investigate the habits and preferences of birds in your own area.
After becoming amateur ornithologists, your children will explore the world of chiropterology, the study of bats. They’ll learn the truth about these gentle nighttime creatures and gain the knowledge to correct common misconceptions while appreciating the important role bats play in God’s creation.
Students will also investigate the ancient world of flying reptiles, such as pterosaurs, and examine the evidence suggesting a more recent extinction of these amazing creatures.
Finally, your children will become expert entomologists as they explore the incredible world of insects. They’ll learn how to classify insects by wing structure and other identifying characteristics. Through hands-on experiments with flies, crickets, darkling beetles, moths, and caterpillars, students will engage in meaningful scientific discovery.
They’ll also learn how to attract, observe, and collect insects for scientific study and will be encouraged to begin their own insect collection, much like students in many college-level life science courses.
From rivers and streams to the mighty oceans, God filled the waters with animals great and small. At His Word, enormous whales sprang into being. At His command, billions of plankton leaped to life. Sea turtles, sharks, dolphins, squid, salmon, crayfish, snails, and countless other aquatic creatures joined together in the waters on the fifth day of creation.
Exploring Creation with Zoology 2 takes your family on an unforgettable journey through the wonders of the deep and shallow waters of the world. Your students will begin with whales and dolphins, then investigate seals and manatees before swimming alongside sea turtles, snakes, and salamanders. They’ll even explore the world of ancient marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs and examine the evidence surrounding these fascinating creatures.
As they continue their underwater adventure, students will discover fish and sharks, crabby crustaceans, sea snails, clams, octopuses, squid, nautiluses, corals, starfish, sea feathers, sand dollars, and even sponges that truly do clean. From microscopic plankton to the largest creatures on earth, no shell is left unturned in this exciting study of aquatic life.
Throughout the course, your student will create replicas of many of the sea creatures they study and place them into their own Ocean Box, a miniature handcrafted aquarium that becomes a treasured keepsake of their learning.
Narration prompts are woven throughout every lesson, along with engaging “Try This!” activities that bring the concepts to life through hands-on exploration. Students will experience the challenge of a sea turtle crawling onto land, measure their own teeth to estimate the size of sharks, and investigate why some animals fossilized during the Flood while others did not.
Each lesson also includes notebooking assignments, Ocean Box projects, experiments, and scientific investigations that reinforce the scientific method and deepen understanding. Students will try on blubber, test how sharks sense electrical currents, explore how whales hear sounds across oceans, and experiment to discover which creatures make the best fossils.
No matter how near or far you live from the ocean, you and your students will stand in awe of God’s creativity and power displayed in the aquatic animals He formed on the fifth day. So slip on your scuba gear and come explore with us!
What separates people from apes? How can a Great Dane be related to a Chihuahua? Is there evidence that people and dinosaurs once lived at the same time? What should you do if you encounter a bear? How can you tell whether a snake is venomous?
Come discover the answers to these questions and many more in Exploring Creation with Zoology 3!
This third and most comprehensive book in the Zoology series takes students on a safari through jungles, deserts, forests, farms, oceans, and even their own backyard. Your upper elementary students will explore, examine, and enjoy the fascinating creatures God designed on the sixth day of creation. Families will snuggle together and discover amazing animals ranging from primates to parasites, kangaroos to caimans, and turtles to terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex.
Narration prompts and engaging hands-on activities are woven throughout every lesson to bring the material to life. Students will tape their thumbs to their hands to experience life without opposable thumbs, practice what to do if they encounter a bear in the wild, fit continents together to understand animal distribution around the world, and even play tracking games that imitate how jungle animals locate prey and predators.
Throughout the course, students will also enjoy the year-long Drive Thru Animal Atlas project, adding animals to the continents where they live while strengthening geography skills and building a beautiful visual record of the creatures they study. They’ll learn to draw and identify many different kinds of animals and animal tracks as they create their own keepsake notebook of discoveries.
As with all the Apologia elementary science courses, notebooking activities are designed to deepen understanding, increase retention, and provide a meaningful record of learning. Students may create a travel brochure for an African safari, compare reptiles and amphibians, illustrate spider webs found around their home, or produce a canine newsletter highlighting fascinating facts about carnivores.
Each lesson concludes with adventurous projects, activities, and experiments that reinforce scientific concepts through hands-on exploration. Students may dissect an owl pellet to reconstruct a rodent skeleton, capture animal tracks in their yard, participate in simulated population studies, and create animal trivia games that review everything they’ve learned in a memorable and exciting way.
One of the most powerful features of this course is the many Creation Confirmations woven throughout the text. These sections highlight zoological discoveries and animal characteristics that point powerfully to a young-earth, God-designed model of creation. By the end of the course, your students will not only have a deeper understanding of the animal kingdom, but also a stronger and more confident faith in God as Creator.
From the brain in your head to the nails on your toes, you and your students will encounter fascinating facts, engaging activities, intriguing experiments, and loads of fun as you learn about the human body and how to keep it working well.
Beginning with a brief history of medicine and a peek into cells and DNA, your students will voyage through fourteen lessons covering many subjects, such as the body systems: skeletal, muscular, respiratory, digestive, cardiovascular, nervous and more! They'll study nutrition and health, how God designed their immune system to protect them, along with embryology and what makes them a unique creation of God.
As they work their way through the course, your students will enjoy adding the organs about which they learn to their own personalized human figure to be placed in their course notebook.
In addition to all this exploration, your students will enjoy scientific experiments and projects, such as testing the bacteria content around the house, finding their blood type, creating a cell model from Jello and candy, and even building a stethoscope!
In keeping with the other books in the Apologia elementary science Young Explorer Series, the Charlotte Mason methodology is employed with engaging narratives, narration prompts and notebooking projects, all of which reinforce their learning using proven techniques that strengthen retention.
Discover the electrifying, exhilarating, and energetic world of chemistry and physics with Exploring Creation with Chemistry & Physics by Jeannie Fulbright. Get ready for physical science like you’ve never experienced before!
This exciting course brings shock and awe to your science studies as your family investigates the fascinating world of matter and energy. With hundreds of hands-on demonstrations and engaging activities, students will discover everything from atoms to Archimedes, nuclear energy to Newton’s Laws of Motion, sound waves to simple machines, and the incredible forces God used to create and sustain the world around us.
Your students will explore the elements that make up creation while learning the scientific laws that govern motion, light, electricity, heat, magnetism, and energy. Through easy-to-understand explanations, notebooking assignments, narration prompts, projects, and experiments, science becomes meaningful, memorable, and fun.
Hands-on projects throughout the course include manufacturing a homemade electric motor, creating delicious Periodic Table of the Elements cookies, building batteries from surprising substances, constructing a mousetrap car, experimenting with motion and force, and much more.
Like all the books in the Young Explorer Series, this course uses the Charlotte Mason methodology through engaging narrative lessons, notebooking, narration, and creative projects that strengthen comprehension and retention while nurturing curiosity and wonder.
Exploring Creation with Chemistry & Physics introduces foundational concepts students will continue building upon in junior high, high school, and beyond. It is sure to delight, excite, and ignite the scientist in your family!
