Continuing in the tradition of LIFE, the 12th Edition embraces an active learning approach that is seamlessly integrated throughout the text and media. Features are as follows:

SUPPORTED IN ACHIEVE

Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for biology students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

Achieve supports educators and students throughout the full range of instruction, including assets suitable for pre-class preparation, in-class active learning, and post-class study and assessment. The pairing of a powerful new platform with outstanding biology content provides an unrivalled learning experience.

Highlights include:

• A design guided by learning science research. Co-designed through extensive collaboration and testing by both students and faculty including two levels of Institutional Review Board approval for every study of Achieve
• A learning path of powerful content including pre-class, in-class, and post-class activities and assessments.
  A detailed gradebook with insights for just-in-time teaching and reporting on student achievement by learning objective.
• Easy integration and gradebook sync with iClicker classroom engagement solutions.
• Simple integration with your campus LMS and availability through Inclusive Access programs.
  

FOCUSED ON SKILLS
To support teaching and learning in biology through asking questions:

• Data in Depth offers students a more in-depth exploration of the in-text “Work with Data” feature via interactive modules that further enhance scientific literacy skills via a host of interactive enhancements: data visualizations, experimental design, graphing, and mathematical calculations.
• The engaging and powerful simulations are now outfitted with quizzes that will report to the Instructor grade-book.
• A new online, interactive version of the in-text Statistics Primer offers students the opportunity to actually perform statistical analysis and calculations.
• The Experiments and Work with the Data exercises highlight important research and instill the foundation of scientific investigation in students by always following the hypothesis–method–-results–conclusion framework.
• Students needing extra practice with data analysis can use the Online Companions to every Work with the Data exercise in the book.
• Questions in Recaps range from questions that support retention of content to questions that foster higher-order thinking.
• We lead by example by exposing students to many thoughtful questions throughout the body of the text, reinforcing the importance of asking questions in biology.

 ENGAGING 
To help students take learning into their own hands:

• The Investigating Life narrative thread weaves through the chapter to keep students engaged from the first page to the last. The opening story and question sets the stage for the narrative, a related Experiment and Work with the Data exercise helps reinforce the concepts, and the synthesis and future directions at the end helps wrap up the investigation.
• Links to media such as animations, simulations, and jaw-dropping videos appear throughout each chapter and allow students to interact with content in a variety of ways.
  Intriguing Pop-Up questions in figure captions sharpen students’ skills in critical thinking about biology and subtly reinforce the process of doing science.
• Connect the Concepts foster thinking about the big picture—a task that can be overwhelming for introductory biology students—by demonstrating how certain important terms and concepts relate to discussions in another chapter.

ACTIVE
To help instructors encourage students to “learn by doing”:

• Learning objectives  guide students to the essential content as they read through each Key Concept section.
• Recaps for each Key Concept include Questions (all Bloom's levels 2-4) that test their mastery of the key concept.
• The Active Learning Guide (for instructors) provides invaluable resources and support for implementing active learning techniques in the classroom. Accompanying the Guide are a set of full Active Learning Modules, which are comprised of a pre-lecture video, a complete in-class exercise, a pre- and post-quiz, and extensive instructor support.