Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Zoology

The children have been really excited for this curriculum to arrive. Of course Eden wanted to go straight to the Zoology - land animals which is book 3 but books 1 and 2 are a prerequisite. It was highly recommended by a friend and I'm glad it was. The quality of the book is excellent and the children are really enjoying filling in the journal and the experiments. We look forward to doing the other books in the series too.
We are currently doing Zoology 1
Sorting all the animal toys in the house into Kingdom, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species - a study in taxonomy.
Experiments in flight.
Learning about the Bernoulli principle, the upward force created by wing shape that enables a bird(and a plane) to fly.
A page out of their zoology journal.