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Environmental Science
NEW! Environment: The Science Behind the Stories
4th Edition AP* Edition ©2011
Withgott, Brennan
Where CURRENT Issues Meet CURRENT Science
Integrated central case studies and real-life stories provide students with a tangible and engaging framework for understanding science and applying it to their own lives.
- Incorporates the most current information in a streamlined readable style.
- Seven new "Central Case Studies" and 17 new "Science behind the Stories" features.
- "EnvisionIt!" feature—a full-page photo essay appearing once in of the 17 issues chapters—draws in visual learners and helps all students envision vital concepts.
- New chapter on minerals and mining and expanded coverage on sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, carbon capture/storage, and much more!
- Updated photos, art, and graphs reflect the most current data.
- Includes a topic-level correlation of content to the AP* Environmental Science curriculum.
- Video Field Trips give students fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of what happens with commonly-used resources before and after they are consumed. These short videos are included on the Instructor Resource DVD for classroom presentations and within MasteringEnvironmentalScience for automatically graded student assignments
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MasteringEnvironmentalScience™—New Online Learning and Assessment Platform
For the first time ever, multi-year access to MasteringEnvironmentalScience with Pearson is provided for this textbook upon adoption. This Web-based, self-study homework and tutorial system is correlated to the text, offering teachers and students a powerful, interactive way to encourage and ensure learning.
- The Study Area in MasteringEnvironmentalScience includes BioFlix 3-D animations, videos, practice tests and cumulative tests, video field trips, links to related New York Times articles, glossary terms, and data and mapping activities.
- A complete eText of the Student Edition with powerful interactive and customization functions.
- Personalized coaching and feedback through assignable, self-paced tutorials with answer-specific feedback and hints.
- Large library of exercises in a variety of formats—all calibrated in difficulty and duration and automatically graded. You can build your own course using these questions, or import your own.
- Robust gradebook functionality provides easy-to-interpret insights into student performance—ideal for demonstrating assessment outcomes.
For more information on this powerful tool—including product overview videos, how-to demonstrations, efficacy studies, and much more—visit www.MasteringEnvironmentalScience.com or contact your Pearson sales representative.
Teachers may demo this powerful tool, including the complete eText—by registering for access at www.pearsonschool.com/access_request (choose option 4 and complete the online form).
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NEW! Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future
11th Edition ©2011
Wright, Boorse
An impartial presentation is known for scientific accuracy and thorough topic coverage.
- Thorough revision features updated content, graphics, and photos, plus the addition of new co-author Dorothy Boorse.
- An impartial presentation is known for scientific accuracy and thorough topic coverage.
- Three unifying themes of science, sustainability, and stewardship help students conceptualize the task of forging a sustainable future.
- Essays explore the three themes at appropriate points within chapters and provide a memorable perspective on the topic. Themes are recapped and discussed at the end of each chapter to help students connect the chapter topics to the themes. A final capstone chapter revisits these themes.
- Timely coverage of topical concerns including the Aral Sea as a major environmental disaster; emerging diseases like swine flu; the 2008 World Population Data Sheet; the 2008 Iowa floods; the "green revolution;" the Endangered Species Act controversy; restoration of the Everglades, and the 2007 Global Forest Resources Assessment.
- Unique chapter on Ecosystem Capital (Chapter 7: The Use and Restoration of Ecosystems) explores how ecosystems provide valuable goods and services to society.
- Video Field Trips give students fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of what happens with commonly-used resources before and after they are consumed. These short videos are included on the Instructor Resource DVD for classroom presentations and within MasteringEnvironmentalScience for automatically graded student assignments
- 100% digital solution available!
THE BEST IN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
MasteringEnvironmentalScience™—New Online Learning and Assessment Platform
For the first time ever, multi-year access to MasteringEnvironmentalScience with Pearson is provided for this textbook upon adoption. This Web-based, self-study homework and tutorial system is correlated to the text, offering teachers and students a powerful, interactive way to encourage and ensure learning.
- The Study Area in MasteringEnvironmentalScience includes BioFlix 3-D animations, videos, practice tests and cumulative tests, video field trips, links to related New York Times articles, glossary terms, and data and mapping activities.
- A complete eText of the Student Edition with powerful interactive and customization functions.
- Personalized coaching and feedback through assignable, self-paced tutorials with answer-specific feedback and hints.
- Large library of exercises in a variety of formats—all calibrated in difficulty and duration and automatically graded. You can build your own course using these questions, or import your own.
- Robust gradebook functionality provides easy-to-interpret insights into student performance—ideal for demonstrating assessment outcomes.
For more information on this powerful tool—including product overview videos, how-to demonstrations, efficacy studies, and much more—visit www.MasteringEnvironmentalScience.com or contact your Pearson sales representative.
Teachers may demo this powerful tool, including the complete eText—by registering for access at www.pearsonschool.com/access_request (choose option 4 and complete the online form).
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