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SmartWork
SmartWork is an interactive assessment tool that coaches students with rich, answer-specific feedback that ties in directly with the text while enabling instructors to assess student progress.
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Smartwork
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Learning Astronomy Workbook
The Learning Astronomy by Doing Astronomy: Collaborative Lecture Activities Workbook includes 30 activities to make your classroom more interactive.
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Learning Astronomy by Doing Astronomy
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Ebook
Norton Ebooks allow students to access the entire book, highlight, bookmark, and take notes with ease. The 21st Century Astronomy ebook can be viewed on—and synced between—all computers and mobile devices, with live, clickable figures, Astronomy in Action videos, and Nebraska Simulations.
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Ebook
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Nebraska Simulations
These popular, interactive models from the University of Nebraska demonstrate how physical systems work. They are integrated into questions within SmartWork and live, clickable links in the ebook.
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Nebraska Simulations
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Starry Night Sample Exercises
The Starry Night Workbook offers observation assignments that guide students' virtual explorations and help them apply what they've learned from their reading assignments. It includes access to Starry Night College Version 7, a realistic and user-friendly planetarium simulation program.
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Starry Night Sample Exercises
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Twenty-four new Astronomy in Action videos created by coauthor Stacy Palen can be used as preclass activities via SmartWork. A mixture of live demos and minilectures explain key concepts in an understandable and compelling way, and the companion Smartwork questions allow instructors to gauge student comprehension and adjust their lectures as the results suggest.
Astronomy in Action Videos