HELP EVERY STUDENT LEARN ASTRONOMY BY ENCOURAGING THEM TO DO ASTRONOMY

Stacy Palen knows from experience that students learn best by doing. That’s why every chapter provides opportunities for hands-on engagement with concepts before, during and after class. Each of these features is also assignable in Smartwork.

PALEN SHOWS THAT SCIENCE IS AN ONGOING ENDEAVOUR AND HELPS STUDENTS BECOME CRITICAL CONSUMERS OF SCIENCE NEWS

Instructors aim to help students identify pseudoscience, analyse articles about the importance of scientific research, and become educated citizens and voters. Stacy Palen provides several features that support these goals—in both the text and the online homework.

AUTHOR-CREATED VISUALISATION TOOLS AND ACTIVITIES OFFER ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR HANDS-ON LEARNING

Astronomy is an incredibly visual science, and 21st Century’s visualisation tools help students approach astronomical images like scientists. Stacy Palen plays the lead role in creating our visualisation tools, ensuring that they are consistent with explanations elsewhere in the text. She also confirms that the supporting videos, animations and simulations are integrated throughout the book and ebook.

AN EASY-TO-USE HOMEWORK SYSTEM—SUPPORTED BY NORTON’S GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE—MAKES PALEN’S ACTIVITIES ASSIGNABLE AND ASSESSABLE

Astronomers know and love online homework because it offers personalised tutoring to students and real-time analytics to instructors. 80% of our adopters use Smartwork, which offers over 2,000 problems written by Astro 101 instructors to support both instructors and students. Easy to use, Smartwork makes the activities in Stacy Palen’s learning package assignable, helping students get the most out of the course.

AN AWARD-WINNING VIDEOGAME MOTIVATES STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EXCITEMENT OF DISCOVERY

Our award-winning At Play in the Cosmos: The Videogame is the ultimate learning-by-doing tool. Designed to span the entire course, this educational game gives students hands-on opportunities to explore the universe and apply their knowledge. Students participate in the process of science by navigating through the universe and using scientific tools to complete missions. Instructors can track students’ progress in the game’s gradebook, plus they can now assign new game-based questions in Smartwork. This makes it easy for instructors to make the videogame part of students’ grades.