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LaunchPad
Help students get better results.
Built around the most common issues faced in the classroom, LaunchPad gives students a complete e-book with all interactive features including, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. For instructors, LaunchPad offers everything they need to quickly set up a course, customize content for your syllabus, create presentations and lectures, assign and assess readings and activities, and guide the progress of individual students and the class as a whole.

Featured in LaunchPad
Data Connections.  From interactive maps showing rates
of breastfeeding and immunization, to manipulatable graphs showing trends in adolescent risk-taking behaviors, this feature lets students take a  hands-on approach to understanding the data in
child development themselves.

Developing Lives (fully integrated into LaunchPad and also available as a standalone resource). Loaded with interactive features and pedagogy, this remarkable online experience asks students to “raise” a virtual child through adolescence, making crucial decisions and responding to events.

Achieve Read & Practice
E-book + LearningCurve adaptive quizzing
Achieve Read & Practice marries Macmillan Learning’s mobile, accessible e-book with the acclaimed LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. It is an easy-to-use yet exceptionally powerful teaching and learning option that streamlines the process of increasing student engagement and understanding—and the cost is significantly less than that of a printed book.

IN THE TEXT
Kathleen Stassen Berger’s unique voice and approach
Berger makes the concepts and research that drive developmental psychology clear, compelling, and easy to grasp by relating them to the reader’s personal experiences.

Cutting-Edge Research and Neuroscience
Coverage includes new developments in late-breaking research areas, from epigenetics to end-of-life care. Special emphasis is on brain development, culture, genetics, and emotional development, including a special feature called Inside the Brain.

Attention to Cultural Diversity
Berger highlights cultural differences and universals, detailing their impact on the values and customs that shape individual development.

Critical Thinking and Applications-Based Pedagogy
From the chapter-opening stories, to the "A View From Science" features, to the questions presented in "Observational Quizzes" and “Think Critically” marginalia, to the “Visualizing Development” infographics, Berger’s pedagogy has students thinking about the real implications—for themselves and for the world at large—of the material they are learning.

Visualizing Development Infographics
These features map out the key ideas and applications of each chapter graphically, making it easier for visually oriented learners to synthesize and retain the most important material.