Features

New to This Edition

NOW FULLY SUPPORTED IN ACHIEVE

Biology for a Changing World is now supported in Achieve. 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 unrivaled learning experience.

Features of Achieve 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.

New media and assessment features in Achieve include:

• Simulation activities focus on the most challenging concepts in a non-majors biology course. These scaffolded, interactive lessons help students apply the principles they learned from the text or lecture in the context of a relevant "real life" question or familiar scenario.
• Tutorials give students an opportunity to work through a concept step-by-step, with support through visuals, hints, feedback, and links to the ebook. The tutorials can be assigned standalone, but they were also developed as a way to prepare students for the simulations.
• Pre-built and curated homework assignments are simple and easy to assign to students and can be customized by the instructor. They include homework questions featuring hints, error-specific feedback, and solutions to provide a powerful formative assessment experience for students.
• Animations are embedded directly with associated assessment problems to help students easily access these powerful visualization tools as they work through their assignments. These animations are also available to instructors in Powerpoint slides for use in the classroom.

Updates to the text:

• 4 new chapter stories and 1 new milestone

• Ch 1 Process of Science: Do cell phones cause cancer? A behind the scenes look at a scientific controversy
• Ch 9: Mutations and Genetic Engineering: New Gene, New Me: Gene therapy offers hope to people with debilitating genetic condition
• Ch 17 Prokaryotic Diversity: Invisible You: A hidden world of microbes helps make you
• Ch 22 Ecosystem Ecology: Bringing Bison Back: A controversial plan to rewild the American Prairie
• New Milestone 8: Pandora’s Dish: The power, promise, and politics of stem cells

• Sub-heads have been added at the section level to indicate the core science being covered, providing a better pedagogical framework for students.
• The text design has been modernized and the photo program has been updated to provide a more friendly student experience.
• Changes were made to the organization to shift coverage in areas that were too broad, e.g. a new Chapter 9 will be dedicated to mutations, formerly covered in an overloaded Chapter 10, which covered mutations and cancer.
• Ch 23 Global Ecology is now Global Change, with new emphasis on climate change
• Answers to end of chapter "know it" questions have been added to the back matter