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01-07-2009, 06:45 PM
Name of curriculum: Exploring Creation with Marine Biology
Common abbreviation: Apologia Marine Biology
Optimal age of students: High school Prerequisite: General biology
Branch of science: Biology
Educational Philosophy: Traditional Textbook
Worldview: Christian AND Young Earth Creationist
Website: www. apologia.com
Review: This course is a traditional textbook approach teaching marine biology. The book is divided into modules each covering a specific topic. Accompanying tests and vocabulary lists and experiments are included in the modules.
A quote from the website: This course concentrates on marine wildlife and marine habitats. It provides a survey of members of each biological kingdom that live in marine environments. The student will learn about the microscopic organisms that make life in the ocean possible, including details about their interesting habits and life cycles. The student will also learn about the anatomy of many macroscopic marine creatures such as clams, starfish, and sharks. The student will then learn how these creatures and their physical surroundings form marine ecosystems such as intertidal zones, estuaries, coral reefs, continental shelf communities, epipelagic communities, and deep-ocean communities. The course ends with a study of marine resources and our relationship with the sea.
Have you used this curriculum? Yes, my son used this curriculum his junior year in a co-op setting.
Strengths: Thorough, challenging and interesting.
Weaknesses: Unless your student has a passion for marine biology, I do believe this would be a difficult course to take if you did not have access to marine life and field trips to make it more "real" and engaging.
Comments: My son enjoyed this course and was challenged by it academically.
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Common abbreviation: Apologia Marine Biology
Optimal age of students: High school Prerequisite: General biology
Branch of science: Biology
Educational Philosophy: Traditional Textbook
Worldview: Christian AND Young Earth Creationist
Website: www. apologia.com
Review: This course is a traditional textbook approach teaching marine biology. The book is divided into modules each covering a specific topic. Accompanying tests and vocabulary lists and experiments are included in the modules.
A quote from the website: This course concentrates on marine wildlife and marine habitats. It provides a survey of members of each biological kingdom that live in marine environments. The student will learn about the microscopic organisms that make life in the ocean possible, including details about their interesting habits and life cycles. The student will also learn about the anatomy of many macroscopic marine creatures such as clams, starfish, and sharks. The student will then learn how these creatures and their physical surroundings form marine ecosystems such as intertidal zones, estuaries, coral reefs, continental shelf communities, epipelagic communities, and deep-ocean communities. The course ends with a study of marine resources and our relationship with the sea.
Have you used this curriculum? Yes, my son used this curriculum his junior year in a co-op setting.
Strengths: Thorough, challenging and interesting.
Weaknesses: Unless your student has a passion for marine biology, I do believe this would be a difficult course to take if you did not have access to marine life and field trips to make it more "real" and engaging.
Comments: My son enjoyed this course and was challenged by it academically.
FTC Disclosure: PLEASE NOTE: This is a “For Profit” site. The Library makes commissions on products sold through affiliate and advertiser links. The products reviewed here may or may not have an affiliate link (most don’t), but we want you to be aware that it is a possibility. Whether this affiliation affects the objectivity of the reviews here is debatable. We don’t think it does, but that’s up to you to decide. If you want to know about a specific product, please feel free to ask. For a full list of current affiliates, check out the Affiliate Forum.