Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Apologia is our first choice for science courses. I have two elementary students and two high school students and I use Apologia for them all. I love how easy it is to teach the Young Explorers series to various ages at the same time. It is very flexible and has plenty of hands-on learning opportunities.

My son was very engaged throughout this book. He wasn't into the projects much, but he has remember much of what we covered.

Although my daughter was bored at times with all the information, she learned it, remembered it and uses it today.

We did this book at the end of their 1st and 3rd grades and during the summer before 2nd and 4th grades. Lots of fun. We also used the notebook journals and they were able to turn their lapbooks into the 4H fair for birds and insects.

We are loving this book! Love the junior notebook!

Out of all the Jenny Fulbright books, honestly, this was my least favorite. Our family has always had a natural attraction to birds. We feed them, identify them and try to learn about them. We did not find this book as captivating as the other books in the Exploring Creation series.

We LOVED this curriculum. I thought it may be "too much" for my first grader. But he LOVED it! We added the Jr. Notebook and, although I cut out some of the writing for his age, it added so much! I'm also glad I used the notebook because it actually had the weekly plans in it, which were great! Highly recommend, even for younger students!

My kids love the detailed information in the text and they love the lab projects we have gotten caterpillars and watched them go through metomorphosis we caught a cricket and observed it they have gotten to draw pictures of live insects. We went to our local nature centers Bug Fest activity there have been so many inexpensive things I have been able to do to make this curriculum come alive for them. Although I will say they spend a long time on insects. If you are queasy about bugs you may want to pick a different book from the apologia library to work from. I don't like bugs, but I have still found this book to be interesting and engaging. I do recommend using the text with the journal and they sell a lab kit that has all the materials for each lab bagged and labeled (this is totally worth the money if you can swing it, it has saved me so much time and ensures we do the labs because I know I have all the materials).