Literary Mom Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 We finished the third and final book in the Apologia Young Explorers animals series and we're reviewing this week before we start the Anatomy and Physiology book next week. I asked my fifth grader to write a research paper on one of the animals we covered...and she mentioned that we never studied penguins (!), that they weren't in any of the Apologia books. That got me wondering what other animals weren't included in the ark...er, series ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Well, I mean, there are like millions of animals.... Where would we even start? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Literary Mom Posted March 8, 2013 Author Share Posted March 8, 2013 Let's narrow it down to say...the ones we might see at a zoo in North America? I mean penguins are a pretty significant animal, especially to children :p ...so I wondered if there were any others like that which got left out. I put my kids on the mission to find out, but I kinda was hoping to compile a cheat sheet here, if I could :coolgleamA: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Well penguins would definitely be on my list of popular ones that were left out of zoology 1. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teeniebeenie6 Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Maybe they skipped Penguins because there is SO much information out there about them? Documentaries, movies, picture books. I personally find the attention on them a little excessive. I'm watching this thread with interest though because we are thinking of doing the Zoology books soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forgiven Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 I was actually thinking of this the other day. We're only in the second Zoology book by Apologia. When the penguins weren't in the first book, I figured it was because they weren't actual "flying" creatures. I've skimmed through the last few chapters that we have left of Zoology 2 and though penguins can swim, they aren't in the swimming creatures book either. I was wondering what they would be classified as and why they weren't covered. We love penguins in our house. So sad they aren't included, but it does make for a great research project for the kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 To me it's because God (through Moses) didn't write Genesis for the purpose of Scientific Study. Which is why so many animals wouldn't fit easily into one category or another from the Genesis account. So anyone trying to classify animals that way is going to get confused. Even our own classification system has different naturalists placing animals in different categories and disagreeing about it- but then- we expect it to be fallible because we know it's a system created by man for the purpose of ordering out world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahliarw Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Why not let her research penguins and write a paper on them if she's interested? But yeah, it would be impossible to do every animal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Well penguins would definitely be on my list of popular ones that were left out of zoology 1. :) Zoo 1 was flying creatures, penguins don't fly. THough they should have been included in zoo 2 as a swimming creature for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 We have zoo 1 and 2 to do next year with the littles, I haven't bought zoo 3 yet. Animals my kids would be hoping to see (tell me if they are covered or not) turtles/tortoises; lizards; amphibians (salamanders and frogs); guinea pigs, hermit crabs and snakes. The reason of course is we have all of those things and they would want to study them further. Are any of those covered in books? (I would assume zoo 3 if they are, though the amphibians and turtles could fit into zoo 2). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhomemaker Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Sea turtles, sea snakes, and hermit crabs are all in Zoo 2. I think I remember something about frogs in Zoo 2 as well. We haven't done the other books so I'm not sure what's in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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