Achieve for Living Physical Geography
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Beschreibung
The second edition of Bruce Gervais’ Living Physical Geography offers a fresh approach to the study of physical geography, combining print and digital media to create a scientifically substantive work that is written for students. Living Physical Geography focuses on human-physical geography interactions, using pedagogical features in the textbook.
Each of the four major parts in Living Physical Geography focuses on energy flows within Earth’s physical systems. Additionally, landscape analysis underpins the body of the text. Step-by-step examples are used to illustrate how landforms and systems develop, evolve, and change through time.
The new edition of Living Physical Geography is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.
Explores the Human-Physical Interface - Living Physical Geography highlights the role of people as they change and are changed by Earth’s physical systems. Students learn how human activity influences Earth’s physical systems, ranging from local stream erosion to global climate change
Emphasises the Process of Science, the Scientific Method, and the Importance of Critical Thinking - Living Physical Geography grounds students in the process of science and the scientific method, helping students understand how we know what we know about physical geography. It addresses students as citizens, encouraging them to develop their own independent and informed ideas about geographic issues based on observation and scientific evidence
Learning Goals list the key takeaway concepts at the outset of each chapter and provide the framework for the chapter’s text
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Living Physical Geography is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-book, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.
Achieve highlights include:
- Story Maps, powered by ArcGIS provide an interactive summary of each region using clickable maps with data, narrative, and images to highlight key ideas tied to the five geographic themes in the chapter. Pre-built Story Map Quizzes for each chapter are ready to assign in Achieve.
- Web Maps, powered by ArcGIS are part of the pre-built homework. Students use zoom and search tools, a legend, basemaps, and layers to answer questions and deepen their regional understanding.
- Video & Animation Quizzes -Each chapter includes videos sourced to align to the text, as well as animations that bring images from the text to life, to expand upon the main themes in the text.
- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing helps students prepare for class and drives them back to the text to reinforce their learning.
- Active learning materials for in-class, online or hybrid classes include: discussion activities, assignments for primary literature, handouts, and other resources to make it even easier to engage your students.
Autor*in
Bruce Gervais
Themen in »Achieve for Living Physical Geography«
Geography Physical Geography Bruce Gervais Earth Sciences Living Physical Geography