Biology: Understanding Life - Hardcover

Alters, Sandra; Alters, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471433659 ISBN 13: 9780471433651

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2005

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Book by Alters Sandra Alters Brian

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Designed for a one or two semester non--majors course in introductory biology taught at most two and four--year colleges. This course typically fulfills a general education requirement, and rather than emphasizing mastery of technical topics, it focuses on the understanding of biological ideas and concepts, how they relate to real life, and appreciating the scientific methods and thought processes. Given the authors' work in and dedication to science education, this text's writing style, pedagogy, and integrated support package are all based on classroom--tested teaching strategies and learning theory. The result is a learning program that enhances the effectiveness & efficiency of the teaching and learning experience in the introductory biology course like no other before it.

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What’s all the buzz about?

In Sandra and Brian Alters’ years of teaching biology and training science teachers, they’ve worked to understand how to create the optimal learning environment and a buzz in the classroom. Biology: Understanding Life reflects this experience and dedication to teaching and learning by providing unique, classroom-tested examples, analogies, and explanation––along with pedagogy that points students to the important ideas in biology. Some of these unique, highly-praised pedagogical features include:

• Analogies throughout the text help students visualize and understand concepts and processes by comparing them with readily recognizable, real-life examples.
• Visual Thinking questions accompany many of the illustrations in this text, asking students to demonstrate understanding and application of what’s being depicted in a figure or table.
• In The News chapter-opening stories, video clips, and end-of-chapter review questions place biology topics in the context of current events and students’ lives.
• Just Wondering boxes placed throughout the text showcase and answer questions from students across the country. At the conclusion of each box, students are invited to submit their own questions to the authors by visiting the text‘s companion website.
• Levels of Understanding Review Materialsat the end of each chapter include questions structured according to a three-level system, providing different types of questions designed to encourage students to think about different strategies for studying the chapter’s material.

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• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0471433659
• ISBN 13: 9780471433651
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 864