Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the 5th Day (Apologia Science Young Explorers)

Lessons

• 1-1 What is Zoology: Classification, Latin
• 1-2 What is Zoology: Latin, Binomial Nomenclature
• 1-3 Flight, Uplifting Pressure
• 1-4 Lab #1: Pg 7 How air pressure works
• 1-5 Airfoil, Drag
• 1-6 Pg 9 Creating a Scientific Notebook
• 1-7 Lab #2: Pg 10-12 Experimenting with Glider Design
• 1-8 Habitats & Instinct
• 1-9 Extinction & Extinction errors
• 1-10 Lesson 1 Review & Activities (Pg 18-20)
• 2-1 Project: Build a seed feeder & hang it (pg 37)
• 2-2 What Makes a Bird a Bird? / Birdwatching / Benefits of birds. Make "Smart Suet" on Pg 39
• 2-3 Project: Build a suet feeder & hang it (pg 38-39)
• 2-4 Identifying birds, field guides, field marks
• 2-5 Wings, Crests, Passerines, size, field guide practice
• 2-6 Bird behavior, habitats, banter, songs and calls
• 2-7 Nature walk for birdwatching (Pg 32)
• 2-8 Claims to territory, purpose of calls, other communication
• 2-9 Bird banding & lesson 2 review / Nature points & Notebook activities (pg 36-37)
• 2-10 Lab #3: Pg 39 Experiment: Which food do the birds prefer?
• 3-1 Birds of a Feather, feather facts, molting
• 3-2 Feather features
• 3-3 Notebook: Copy diagrams of types of feathers, color and put in your notebook
• 3-4 Contour feathers & Try this (pg 47), Down feathers
• 3-5 Semiplume feathers, Filoplume feathers, Bristles
• 3-6 Preening, Try this (pg 50)
• 3-7 Cormorants, Feather color, Birdbaths, Sunbathing
• 3-8 Lesson 3 review & Notebook activites. Dry a large chicken bone for lesson 4.
• 3-9 Lab #4: Pg 55 Build a birdbath
• 3-10 Lab #5: Pg 55 Experiment: The best bird bath
• 4-1 Facts about flying, Try this (Pg 57), Mighty muscles
• 4-2 Takeoff, steering, flapping and gliding
• 4-3 Soaring, Seabirds, Explain what you have learned about flight muscles & birds in flight.
• 4-4 Migration, Why do they say goodbye?, Knowing where to go, Try this (pg 63)
• 4-5 Using landmarks, sun & stars, Magnetic fields
• 4-6 Enough eating, are we there yet?, Champion migrator
• 4-7 Perils on the path, how high can you go
• 4-8 Flocks or loners, Left alone, Explain migration in your own words.
• 4-9 REVIEW: Pg. 70-71, Nature points, Notebook activities: Create a migration map
• 4-10 Lab #6: Pg 72 Which color do birds prefer?
• 5-1 Nesting home builders, types of nests
• 5-6 Unusual nests, weavers. Draw each type of nest for your notebook.
• 5-2 No nests, ground & mound nesters. Draw each type of nest for your notebook.
• 5-3 Earth-hole nesters, cavity nesters. Draw each type of nest for your notebook.
• 5-4 Platform nesters, Cup nesters, Try this (pg 83). Draw each type of nest for your notebook.
• 5-5 Egg Color, lesson review. Complete drawings for notebook. Nature walk if time allows.
• 5-7 Lab #8: Pg 86 Gather/prep materials to build a birdhouse.
• 5-8 Lab #8: Pg 86-87 Build a birdhouse Day 1
• 5-9 Lab #8: Pg 86-87 Build a birdhouse Day 2
• 5-10 Lab #8: Pg 86-87 Build a birdhouse Day 3
• 6 Lesson 6: Matching and Hatching: Showcase/Helpful Mates/Single Parents
• 7 L6: Exceptional Eggs/Clutch/Incubation/Development in the Egg/Egg Tooth
• 8 L6: Baby Birds, Precocial Birds, WDY Remember?, Nature Points, Notebook, Exper't
• 9 L7: Bats: Keystone Bats/Bat Anatomy/Echolocation/Creation Confirmation
• 10 L7: Microbats, What Big Ears You Have/Megabats/Bat Habitats/Guano
• 11 L7: Winter Homes, Breeding, The Nursery, WDY Remember?, Notebook, Project
• 12 L8: Flying Reptiles: Pterosaurs, Pterosaurs in History, Types of Pterosaurs
• 13 L8: Pterosaur Lifestyle, Powered Flight, Other Pterosaur Lifestyle Issues, WDYR, Actv
• 14 L9: A First Look at Insects: Identifying Insects, What Good are They?, Cold-blooded
• 15 L9: Exoskeleton, Molting, Insect Heads, Insect Eyes, Antennae
• 16 L9: Mouths, Thorax, The Abdomen, WDY Remember?, Nature Points, Notebook
• 17 L10: Insect Life Cycles and LifeStyles: Finding a Mate, Metamorphosis
• 18 L10: Complete Metamorphosis, Incomplete Metamorphosis, More Incomplete Metam.
• 19 L10: Insect LifeStyles, Crypsis, Advertisement, Mimicry
• 20 L10: Trickery, Chemical Defense, Creation Confirmation
• 21 L10: Bites and Stings, WDY Remember?, Nature Points, Notebook, Projects, Exper.
• 22 L11: Social Insects: Hymenoptera, Worker Ant Jobs, Ant Talk, Ant Food
• 23 L11: The Ant Shepherds and Farmers, The Honeybee, Royal Food, The Queen Bee
• 24 L11: Worker Bees, Dancing Bees, Flower Power, Making Honey
• 25 L11: Bumblebees, Wasps, Termites, Creation Confirmation
• 26 L11: Ants Versus Termites, WDY Remember?, Nature Points, Notebook, Project
• 27 L12: Beetles, Flies, and True Bugs: Beetle Behaviour, Both Beneficial and Pesky
• 28 L12: Scarab Beetles, Fireflies/Lightning Bugs, Ladybugs, Flies
• 29 L12: Mosquitoes, True Bugs, WDY Remember?, Nature Points, Notebook, Experiment
• 30 L13: Interesting Insects: Praying Mantises, Dragonflies and Damselflies, Winging It
• 31 L13: Seeing More Than Double, Feeding on the Fly, Water Babies
• 32 L13: Crickets, Grasshoppers, and Katydids/Hearing Legs and Abdomens
• 33 L13: Chomp and Chew, Swarming, Leg Power,Differences Among Crickets/Gr/Katydids
• 34 L13: Dangers and Defense, Looking for Members of Order Orthoptera
• 35 L13: Aphids, Cicadas, Creation Confirmation, WDY Remember?, Nature Points
• 36 L14: Order Lepidoptera: Creation Confirmation, Lep Anatomy, Antennae
• 37 L14: Drinking Straws, Thorax, Migration, More Metamorphosis
• 38 L14: Cocoon, Chrysalis, What's the Difference?
• 39 L14: Home Sweet Home, Butterfly Pets, Notebook Activities, Experiment