Biology: Life on EarthBiology: Life on Earth sets a new standard with its conceptual focus and highly acclaimed media and on-line resources. In creating the Fifth Edition the authors and Prentice Hall reached out to the biology community - involving educators who are actively involved in teaching biology around the country to help address the diverse needs of today's undergraduates. *The overarching difference in the Audesirk technology package is two-fold: *The Audesirk/Audesirk multi-media components were developed by Andrew Stull and other biology educators. In creating the student CD-ROM and web site their mission was to create tools that - enhanced students' performance; provided greater efficiency for instructors and students; accessed real-time information; connected biology issues with the concepts in the text *The technology components were also developed in conjunction with the text in order to provide an easy to use, truly integrated teaching and learning system. An example of the integration are the in-text icons: |
Contents
An Introduction to Life on Earth | 1 |
Chapter | 4 |
Earth Watch | 13 |
Copyright | |
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