Welcome to Our Red Wagon Marine Biology for High School Course

Course Sample for Red Wagon Marine Biology for High School

Welcome to Red Wagon Marine Biology for High School! These lessons are designed for use with the 2nd edition course texts, but those course texts are not required. These lessons can be used as a stand-alone course. However, if the student has access to the 2nd edition course texts, it will enhance the course.

Lesson 06:

Lesson 06 Assignments: (One lesson is done per week. If you are not using Exploring Creation with Marine Biology, 1st or 2nd Edition, complete items 3, 4, 5, and 10 only.)

1. Reading Assignment: ECMB, 1st Edition: pp. 65 – 73; 2nd Edition: pp. 85 – 96.
2. Answer the On Your Own questions when you come to them in your textbook.
3. Please watch this video before class starts or the session video is viewed:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttl1iAVVSjQ
4. Watch Video Lesson 06 linked below:
   Lesson Video: Play Lesson 06 from the Video File. (Print off notes below before playing.)
   Lesson Starts: 3:17 (Fast forward to this point for lecture.)
5. Fill in the blank notes should be filled in by end of video: you may want to work any mathproblems ahead of time and come with answers prepared.
6. Optional: Answer the Study Guide questions at the end of the module. (This is an open bookassignment.)
7. Optional: Parents use your Solutions Manual to correct your student’s Study Guide answers.
8. Optional: Have the student correct any error they may have made in the Study Guideassignment.
9. Perform the labs included in this week’s reading. Write the required informal lab report foreach lab completed. Place them in your notebook for safekeeping.
10. Take the Module Test. This assignment is closed book and closed notes. You will find thetest and answer key in your Parent’s Test Manual.

The First Four Kingdoms, Part 2

1. Multicellular algae make up a third group in kingdom Protista. They are commonly called the______________. The three groups under kingdom Protista, therefore, are the ______________algae, the marine ______________, and the ______________ algae.

2. Multicellular algae have more complex structures than the unicellular algae and have moreintricate _______________ _______________.

3. T or F: The seaweeds look like plants; however, they do not have true leaves, stems, or roots.______________

4. A thallus can have flattened, leaf-like portions called ______________, bulb-shaped bladders for flotation called ______________, a stem-like ______________ for support, and a root-like extension that behaves like an anchor called a ______________.

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Course Outline for Red Wagon Marine Biology for High School

• Module One (Lessons 1-2): The Oceans of Our Planet
• Module Two (Lessons 3-4): Life in the Sea
• Module Three (Lessons 5-6): The First Four Kingdoms
• Module Four (Lessons 7-8): Marine Invertebrates I
• Module Five (Lessons 9-10): Marine Invertebrates II
• Module Six (Lessons 11-12): Marine Vertebrates I
• Module Seven (Lessons 13-14): Marine Vertebrates II
• Module Eight (Lessons 15-16): Marine Ecology
• Module Nine (Lessons 17-18): The Intertidal Zone
• Module Ten (Lessons 19-20): Estuary Communities
• Module Eleven (Lessons 21-22): Coral Reefs
• Module Twelve (Lessons 23-24): Continental Shelf Communities
• Module Thirteen (Lessons 25-26): The Epipelagic Zone
• Module Fourteen (Lessons 27-28): The Deep Ocean
• Module Fifteen (Lessons 29-30): Ocean Resources
• Module Sixteen (Lessons 31-32): Effects of Humans on the Sea