Show students that geography is all around us New - Humanitarian Geography features demonstrate how geographic tools and approaches improve the human condition when confronted with current challenges such as natural disasters, disease outbreaks, crisis and humanitarian mapping, and the United Nations'' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). New - Globalization in Our Lives features explore global connections and impacts of common everyday products that students use or consume. By looking at common commodities, activities, or popular culturein a college student''s everyday experience, students see how the forces of globalization affect their behavior or consumption, and connect them to different world regions. Exploring Global Connections features explore the often surprising connection between places and regions around the world, leveraging recent events and coverage of cultural and environmental topics. Most features are integrated with QR links to Google Earth(tm) Virtual Tour Videos. Working Toward Sustainability details positive environmental and social efforts and outcomes. All features are integrated with QR links to Google Earth Virtual Tour Videos. Develop 21st-century skills New - Two-page Review, Reflect, & Apply sections at the end of each chapter provide a robust interactive review experience, including a concise chapter summary, Review Questions that bridge multiple chapter themes, Image Analysis questions, DebateIt activities that encourage students to explore both sides of a complex issue affecting the region, and Data Analysis activities.
Updated - Population and Development Data Tables ensure that the most recent demographic and economic data are incorporated into each regional chapter. The data tables connect students to MapMaster 2.0, allowing them to visualize and compare mapped data. DebateIt presents two sides of a complex topic to engage students in active debate around the most critical topics of geography today. Jon the Debate can be used for homework, group work, and discussions. Guide students through World Regional Geography with effective pedagogy New - Key Concepts presentedin the first chapter are consistently revisited in the regional chapters, to emphasize and reinforce when key geography concepts apply to a certain region of the world. The Critical Themes of Geography: Following two unique introductory chapters, each regional chapter is organized into five thematic sectionsmaking navigation easy for students and instructors. Themes include Physical Geography and the Environment, Population and Settlement, Cultural Coherence and Diversity, Geopolitical Framework, and Economic and Social Development.
Continuous Formative Assessments appearthroughout each chapter, ensuring students stay on track and become aware of misconceptions early enough to resolve them. Region-specific Learning Outcomes in each chapter''s opening pages connect to the end-of-chapter Review section and to Mastering Geography. Visual Questions within chapter sections give students the opportunity to stop and practice visual data analysis and critical thinking. Paired questions within each special feature side bars encourage students to test their understanding of the case study topic and then to ask themselves how the themes and trends apply to their own lives. Review Questions at the end of each section help students check their comprehension as they read and are followed by a list of the key terms that reinforces the key concepts from each chapter section. Also available with Mastering Geography Mastering(tm) is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and improves results for each student. Built for, and directly tied to the text, Mastering Geography enables students to get hands on with geospatial tools and activities to practice, learn, and apply geography outside of the classroom.
Learn more about Mastering Geography. Reach every student with Mastering Teach your course your way: Your course is unique. So whether you''d like to build your own auto-graded assignments, foster student engagement during class, or give students anytime, anywhere access, Mastering gives you the flexibility to easily create your course to fit your needs. Learning Catalytics(tm). Learning Catalytics helps you generate class discussion, customize your lecture, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students'' smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking. New - Upload a full PowerPoint® deck for easy creation of slide questions New - Team names are no longer case sensitive Help your students develop critical thinking skills Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode Pre-Lecture Reading Quizzes ensure that students complete the assigned reading before class and stay on track with reading assignments. Reading Quizzes are 100% mobile ready and can be completed by students on mobile devices.
New - Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering. It allows students to easily highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place-even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class. Empower each learner: Each student learns at a different pace. Personalized learning, including adaptive tools and wrong-answer feedback, pinpoints the precise areas where each student needs practice and gives all students the support they need - when and where they need it - to be successful. Explore Sights, Sounds, and Tastes of the Region extend andenrich the student experience through mobile-ready links in the text and eText to online videos, web maps, audio, and reference material. Updated - Sights of the Region bridge print with digital maps and data for a virtual active learning experience inspired by GIS and geospatial technologies.
Links embedded directly into the eText connect students to Google Maps, Google Earth Virtual Tour Videos, Mobile Field Trips, and select Geoscience Animations that provide students with just-in-time learning support covering complex physical processes. Updated - Sounds of the Region linksgive students access to audio of regional music, language, and fauna, for a true sense of place. Updated - Tastes of the Region sections help students explore the geography and politics of food in each region, and include links to regional recipes. New - Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering. It allows students to easily highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place-even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class. Deliver trusted content: We partner with highly respected authors to develop interactive content and course-specific resources that keep students on track and engaged.
New - MapMaster 2.0 Interactive Map Activities. Inspired by GIS, these activities allow students to layer various thematic maps to analyze spatial patterns and data at regional and global scales. Now fully mobile, with enhanced analysis tools, the ability for students to geolocate themselves in the data, and the ability for students to upload their own data for map making, this tool includes zoom and annotation functionality, with hundreds of map layers leveraging recent data from sources such as the PRB, the World Bank, NOAA, NASA, USGS, United Nations, the CIA, and more. New -Mobile Field Trip videos for geography from Michael Collier give students another avenue for exploring US landscapes and the major themes of physical geoscience concepts. These are embedded in the eText and available to assign. Updated - Video Activities from sources such as the BBC,.