4-step Learning Path

Students want to study as efficiently as possible. The 4-step structure of myenvironmentplace allows students to identify what they don't know, select the appropriate learning activity to match their learning style, practice outside of lecture, test their understanding before moving on to the next topic, and finally extend their knowledge with case studies and special topic material.

The content for every chapter follows an effective 4-step learning path:  Focus your Effort uses a pre-test as a roadmap to identify your students' study needs. In addition to question-specific feedback on wrong answers of the pre-test, students can link to the exact section of myeBook or go to an activity to learn the material. Personalized Study Plans are created for students with question-specific feedback on each wrong answer. Each answer's feedback includes links to the exact section of myeBook material that they need to review or to activities that help in learning the material.  Direct Your Learning is organized by section of the book including links to myeBook and appropriate animations to support the various learning styles of your students. When appears, students can link to the appropriate section of myeBook from within the Pre- and Post-Tests, and Personalized Study Plans.  Test Yourself offers a Post-test to check students' understanding and prepare for exams.  Extend Your Knowledge allows students to go beyond the chapter material by exploring Current Events with RSS news feeds and recent New York Times articles.

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24/7 Test Prep

Assessment Assets Snapshot gives students and instructors an overview of the resources available and indicates which items the instructor can track in the Gradebook.

Pre-test can be used as a roadmap to identify a student's personal study needs. Get question-specific feedback on wrong answers and links to the exact section of the myeBook to study as well as animations that will help teach the material. View personalized study plan.

GraphIt! Quizzes are designed to test a students' ability to understand and interpret graphs.

InvestigateIt! Quizzes will test your students' comprehension of environmental issues in the news.

Current Events Quizzes test the comprehension of recent environmental issues in the New York Times.

Science Behind the Story Quizzes test your students' comprehension of the scientific process in 17 different scenarios.

Post-tests help students prepare for exams by taking a 20-question multiple choice exam that covers all the key concepts in each chapter.

Cumulative Test is an assessment tool that allows students to create their own quizzes with questions covering multiple chapters to prepare for mid-terms and final exams.

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Current Events

RSS Feeds provide daily updated news from Andrew Revkin, a reporter on environmental news for the New York Times.

New York Times articles: A collection of recent New York Times articles that explore environmental issues in the news. Updated every term!

InvestigateIt! is a tool that gives access to 200 recent articles from the New York Times and 30 ABC News clips that explore environmental issues in the news today.

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myeBook is integrated within myenvironmentplace. Students are often directed to appropriate sections of myeBook when they need extra help, look for this icon.

The integration of myeBook within myenvironmentplace gives students easy access to the text when and wherever they have access to the Internet. myeBook pages look exactly like the printed text, offering powerful new functionality for students and instructors. Users can create notes, highlight text in different colors, create book marks, zoom, click hyperlinked words and phrases to view definitions, view in single-page or two-page view. myeBook also links students to associated media files, enabling them to view an animation as they read the text.

Instructors can share their notes and highlights with students and can also hide chapters that they do not want their students to read. myeBook offers a full-text search and the ability to save and export notes.

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GraphIt! is a series of interactive graphing activities that allow students to manipulate real data while learning the art of graphing.

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Create Dynamic Lectures

The INSTRUCTOR HOME area of myenvironmentplace offers a wealth of downloadable instructor media resources, including test items, answer keys, and lecture outlines in one convenient location. These resources will help you prepare for class and create dynamic lectures in half the time. These assets are also available on the Instructor Resource DVD package. The Instructor Resource DVD package uses an intuitive folder structure so you can find what you need quickly and efficiently. Elements include:

1. All of the art, tables and photos from the book with customizable labels.
2. All animations and videos from the website, including the instructor presentation version of GraphIt!.
3. Over 30 ABC News Lecture Launcher video clips explore current environmental issues. Each clip is accompanied by questions that can be assigned for automatic grading and recording in the online gradebook.
4. Time-saving, customizable PowerPoint® lectures are provided for each textbook chapter.
5. Active Lecture Questions stimulate effective classroom discussions and are conveniently embedded into PowerPoint® for use with or without clickers.

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Track Student Progress

Students are most likely to complete assignments when they receive credit for their work. myenvironmentplace gives instructors a wealth of available assignments with gradebook results that students can complete outside of class. View gradebook and student activity sample.

Assessment Assets Snapshot gives students and instructors an overview of the resources available and indicates which items the instructor can track in the Gradebook.

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