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What materials can instructors use to actively engage students in lecture?
Geoscience Animation Library
ISBN-10: 0-13-600377-X | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-600377-9
For engaging lectures, the Prentice Hall Geoscience Animation Library includes 101 animations illuminating the most difficult-to-visualize topics in physical geology, physical geography, oceanography, meteorology, and earth science - created through a unique collaboration among Prentice Hall's leading geoscience authors, including Robert W. Christopherson, Darrel Hess, Frederick K. Lutgens, Aurora Pun, Gary A. Smith, Edward J. Tarbuck, and Alan P. Trujillo. Available on CD-ROM, they are provided as both Flash files and, for your convenience, pre-loaded into PowerPoint® slides.
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View a pdf of the Table of Contents of all 101 animations.
Videos
Prentice Hall World Regional Geography Videos on DVD
©2008 | ISBN-10: 0-13-159348-X | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-159348-0
Now fully integrated into the Companion Websites of select Pearson world regional geography titles, this two-DVD set is designed to enhance any world regional geography course. It contains 10 complete video programs (average length 26 minutes) covering a wide array of issues affecting people and places in the contemporary world, including international immigration, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, urbanization, homelessness, poverty, and environmental destruction. The videos included on these DVDs are offered at the highest quality to allow for full-screen viewing on a computer and projection in large lecture classrooms.
Prentice Hall Human Geography Videos on DVD
©2008 | ISBN-10: 0-13-241656-5 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-241656-6
Now fully integrated into the Companion Websites of select Pearson human geography titles, this three-DVD set is designed to enhance any human geography course. It contains 14 complete video programs (average length 25 minutes) covering a wide array of issues affecting people and places in the contemporary world, including international immigration, urbanization, global trade, poverty, and environmental destruction. The videos included on these DVDs are offered at the highest quality to allow for full-screen viewing on a computer and projection in large lecture classrooms.
Instructor Resource Center on CD/DVD
With all of the images from our leading geoscience textbooks, Prentice Hall's Instructor Resource Centers (IRCs) continue to offer the best tools available for lecture preparation. Most IRCs contain the following:
- All illustrations and photographs from the textbook available in both file formats and PowerPoint® slides
- Geoscience animations appropriate to each chapter
- Instructor's Manual in Microsoft® Word
- Test Item Files and TestGen™ software
- CRS and Interwrite PRS enabled PowerPoint® slides
- Links to Research Navigator and other lecture resources
PowerPoint® Resources
A variety of PowerPoint® resources are provided to instructors who adopt our books to allow for flexible options when creating lecture presentations. Most of our introductory textbooks have accompanying presentations ready to pull from the Instructor Resource Center. Options include:
- Lecture PPT slides of the text's content outline and selected art, view sample.
- Image PPT slides that contain all of the text's art, view sample.
- Animation PPT slides with our Geoscience Animiations that accompany the text, view sample.
- "Clicker" enabled active learning questions in PowerPoint, view sample.
Applied Supplements
Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
ISBN-10: 0-13-604435-2 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-604435-2
Periodic reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) evaluate the risk of climate change brought on by humans. In just over 200 pages, this practical text presents and expands upon the essential findings in a visually stunning and undeniably powerful way to the lay reader. Scientific findings that provide validity to the implications of climate change are presented in clear-cut graphic elements, striking images, and understandable analogies.
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Goode's World Atlas, 22e
ISBN-10: 0-321-65200-2 | ISBN-13: 978-0-321-65200-3
Goode's World Atlas has been the world's premiere educational atlas since 1923, and for good reason. It features over 250 pages of maps, from definitive physical and political maps to important thematic maps that illustrate the spatial aspects of many important topics. The 22nd edition includes 160 pages of new, digitally-produced reference maps, as well as new thematic maps on global climate change, sea level rise, CO2 emissions, polar ice fluctuations, deforestation, extreme weather events, infectious diseases, water resources, and energy production. Pearson Prentice Hall offers the atlas at a dramatically reduced price when packaged with our textbooks. See your local Pearson Prentice Hall representative for details.
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Encounter Earth: Interactive Geoscience Explorations
ISBN-10: 0-321-58129-6 | ISBN-13: 978-0-321-58129-7
Ideal for professors who want to integrate Google Earth™ mapping service activities in their classrooms, Pearson's new Encounter Earth supplement gives students a new, well-organized way to visualize key topics in their introductory geoscience courses. This guide workbook saves instructors assignment preparation time - and helps students find Google Earth locations for assignments in the workbook transports students to geologically interesting locations for 20 different Explorations.
www.mygeoscience.com/kluge
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View a flier listing available packages with our textbooks.
Encounter Geosystems
ISBN-10: 0-32-163699-6 | ISBN-13: 978-0-321-63699-7
Pearson Prentice Hall's Encounter Geosystems supplement gives students a new way to visualize key topics in physical geography using Google Earth™ and saves instructors time by providing well-organized, assignable exercises
View a flier of the Encounter Geosystems supplement.GEOS: The Prentice Hall Custom Laboratory Program For The Earth Sciences
Customize your laboratory experience with GEOS. Fill out an order form or use our convenient PubSelect site to scroll through and analyze lab exercise and select content from 15 of our Lab Manuals to bring together a choice group of labs that fall perfectly in line with your course. Select from the best that Pearson has to offer, as well as incorporate personally developed lab exercises and copyrighted material from other publishers. Students pay only for the labs that you select, providing you as the instructor with the unique opportunity to bring high quality, adaptable laboratory instruction to your students while being mindful of cost.
www.pearsoncustom.com/geos
For the Student
What tools help students succeed in their courses?
Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
ISBN-10: 0-13-604435-2 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-604435-2
Periodic reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) evaluate the risk of climate change brought on by humans. In just over 200 pages, this practical text presents and expands upon the essential findings in a visually stunning and undeniably powerful way to the lay reader. Scientific findings that provide validity to the implications of climate change are presented in clear-cut graphic elements, striking images, and understandable analogies.
View Interactive Book Walkthrough
Preview Full Book Online Now
Read Reviews
Encounter Earth: Interactive Geoscience Explorations
ISBN-10: 0-321-58129-6 | ISBN-13: 978-0-321-58129-7
Ideal for professors who want to integrate Google Earth™ mapping service activities in their classrooms, Pearson's new Encounter Earth supplement gives students a new, well-organized way to visualize key topics in their introductory geoscience courses. This guide workbook saves instructors assignment preparation time - and helps students find Google Earthlocations for assignments in the workbook transports students to geologically interesting locations for 20 different Explorations.
www.mygeoscience.com/kluge
View a sample worksheet.
View a flier listing available packages with our textbooks.
Encounter Geosystems
ISBN-10: 0-32-163699-6 | ISBN-13: 978-0-321-63699-7
Pearson Prentice Hall's Encounter Geosystems supplement gives students a new way to visualize key topics in physical geography using Google Earth™ and saves instructors time by providing well-organized, assignable exercises
View a flier of the Encounter Geosystems supplement.Goode's World Atlas, 22e
ISBN-10: 0-321-65200-2 | ISBN-13: 978-0-321-65200-3
Goode's World Atlas has been the world's premiere educational atlas since 1923, and for good reason. It features over 250 pages of maps, from definitive physical and political maps to important thematic maps that illustrate the spatial aspects of many important topics. The 22nd edition includes 160 pages of new, digitally-produced reference maps, as well as new thematic maps on global climate change, sea level rise, CO2 emissions, polar ice fluctuations, deforestation, extreme weather events, infectious diseases, water resources, and energy production. Pearson Prentice Hall offers the atlas at a dramatically reduced price when packaged with our textbooks. See your local Pearson Prentice Hall representative for details.
GEODe Software
An interactive learning experience, GEODe (Geologic Explorations On Disk) exploits excellent animations, videos, illustrations, photographs, and narration for a clear and thorough review and tutorial of important facts and concepts described in its accompanying text. GEODe is designed by Dennis Tasa, who is renowned for his remarkable illustrations. GEODe is accessible with the following Tarbuck/Lutgens/Tasa titles:
- Essentials of Geology, 10e (bound in to text)
- Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology, 9e (bound in to text)
- Earth Science, 12e (bound in to text)
- Foundations of Earth Science, 5e (bound in to text)
- The Atmosphere, 11e (integrated into the Companion Website, accessible via mygeoscienceplace.com)
Videos
Prentice Hall World Regional Geography Videos on DVD
©2008 | ISBN-10: 0-13-159348-X | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-159348-0
Now fully integrated into the Companion Websites of select Pearson world regional geography titles, this two-DVD set is designed to enhance any world regional geography course. It contains 10 complete video programs (average length 26 minutes) covering a wide array of issues affecting people and places in the contemporary world, including international immigration, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, urbanization, homelessness, poverty, and environmental destruction. The videos included on these DVDs are offered at the highest quality to allow for full-screen viewing on a computer and projection in large lecture classrooms.
Prentice Hall Human Geography Videos on DVD
©2008 | ISBN-10: 0-13-241656-5 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-241656-6
Now fully integrated into the Companion Websites of select Pearson human geography titles, this three-DVD set is designed to enhance any human geography course. It contains 14 complete video programs (average length 25 minutes) covering a wide array of issues affecting people and places in the contemporary world, including international immigration, urbanization, global trade, poverty, and environmental destruction. The videos included on these DVDs are offered at the highest quality to allow for full-screen viewing on a computer and projection in large lecture classrooms.
Student Animation Software
Bound into select geoscience textbooks on CD-ROM and available online for others, this dynamic software tutors students by animating geoscience processes that are important to the content of the course. A narrator explains the processes as the student works through the visualizations. Tutorials are accompanied by video, satellite loops, and other imagery as appropriate to the content. Student Animation Software is bound into the following titles:
- Physical Geography
Christopherson, Geosystems, 7e
Christopherson, Elemental Geosystems, 5e
McKnight/Hess, Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation, 9e - Physical Geology
Smith/Pun, How Does Earth Work?, 2e - Oceanography
Trujillo/Thurman, Essentials of Oceanography, 9e - Introduction to Meteorology
Aguado/Burt, Understanding Weather and Climate, 5e
Hazard City: Assignments in Applied Geology, 3/e
ISBN-10: 0-13-156682-2 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-156682-8
This CD-ROM makes the most of students' natural curiosity surrounding hazards such as volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, and landslides, turning them into learning opportunities via the fictional town of Hazard City. Assignments place students in the role of practicing geologists - gathering and analyzing data, evaluating risk, and making assessments and recommendations. For introductory courses in Environmental Geology or Physical Geology, or Environmental Engineering. The Hazard City CD-ROM is bound into new copies of:
- Keller, Introduction to Environmental Geology, 4e
- Keller/Blodgett, Natural Hazards, 2e
Companion Websites
Companion Websites are a key component of our media offerings with our books. The websites offer a suite of quizzes for study and grading as well as a host of resources for further study and homework including:
- Key concepts listed for each chapter of the textbook
- Quizzes with instant feedback for every concept in the book
- Links to other websites for further study and research
