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Our new course space, LaunchPad, combines an interactive e-Book with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. Pre-built, curated units are easy to assign or adapt with your own material, such as readings, videos, quizzes, discussion groups, and more. LaunchPad also provides access to a gradebook that provides a clear window on performance for your whole class, for individual students, and for individual assignments. The following resources are available on LaunchPad:

For Students

LearningCurve is an intuitive, fun, and highly effective formative assessment tool that is based on extensive educational research. Students can use LearningCurve to test their knowledge in a low-stakes environment that helps them improve their mastery of key concepts and prepare for classroom discussion, lectures, and exams. Each LearningCurve question provides hints and feedback, along with links to relevant reading in the integrated e-Book. A personalized study plan summarizes each student’s results, pointing to the areas mastered, those still to be learned, and relevant sections of the e-Book that students should read. Because LearningCurve is adaptive, it moves students from basic knowledge through critical thinking and synthesis skills as they master content at each level.

e-Book. A complete e-Book is provided within LaunchPad. The e-Book offers powerful study tools for students and easily customizable features for instructors. Embedded resources within the e-Book include animations, videos, and Exploring with Google Earth Activities.

Animations and Videos. Each animation and video is accompanied by a multiple-choice assessment quiz. Results are reported directly to the instructor’s gradebook.

Exploring with Google Earth Activities and .kml Files. These activities are online versions of the “Exploring with Google Earth” activities found at the end of each chapter. Here, students can access the .kml files required to complete these activities. Instructors can assign these activities online; results are reported directly to the instructor’s gradebook. A tour of select figures in the text is also provided for more in-depth learning of the featured location.

For Instructors

The following resources are available exclusively to instructors on LaunchPad:

Test Bank and Instructor’s Manual, by Bruce Gervais. The test bank contains approximately 2,500 multiple-choice and true or false questions. Each question is tied to the chapter’s learning objectives. The Instructor’s Manual includes teaching tips for each chapter, along with the answers or solutions to all the exercises found in the textbook. The author’s intimate familiarity with the text material maximizes the effectiveness of the Test Bank’s questions and provides useful insight for teaching tips in the Instructor’s Manual.

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PowerPoint Classroom Presentations, by Nicole C. James. A ready-made PowerPoint presentation is available for each chapter in the textbook. These presentations concisely summarize the key concepts in the chapters.

Textbook Image PowerPoint Presentations. All images from each chapter are provided in PowerPoint format for easy customization.

Textbook Photos and Images. All images and photos from the textbook are available as high-quality electronic files.