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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
life span development themselves.

Visualizing Development. These assessments link together graphics, text, and photographs to tell a visual story about an important concept in life-span development.

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 the teenage years, 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
Unique coverage of Neuroscience and Development
A  separate chapter on Neuroscience (Ch. 5)  tells a cohesive story about brain development across the life span. In addition, in some chapters, Inside the Brain presents cutting-edge research on the brain with charts, figures, and photos.

Attention to Cultural Diversity
Berger highlights cultural differences and universals and their impact on the values and customs that shape individual development.
 
Critical Thinking and Applications-Based Pedagogy
From the chapter-opening stories and the "A View From Science" and “A Case to Study” features, to the questions presented in "Observation Quizzes," “Especially For,” “Think Critically,” and new “Chapter Apps” marginalia, to the Visualizing Development infographics, Berger’s pedagogy has students thinking about the real implications—for themselves and for the world at large.

Opposing Perspectives
The feature asks students to look at both sides of a controversial issue (from prenatal sex selection to e-cigarettes, etc.), thereby expanding the coverage of critical thinking.

Career Alerts present career options in various applied settings.