Michael A. Seeds
Published by Brooks/Cole

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When you use WebAssign with the pedagogy and content found in this textbook, you have access to the best-in-breed solution to your homework and assessment needs. Special problems ask your students to analyze photos and graphs, manipulate interactive Active Figures and assess their understanding. An eBook version of the textbook is linked to each reading question to enable your students to review text material. When you assign homework using WebAssign, your students are able to interact with the very concepts they are learning about!

1. Active Figures - visualize astronomy in action
   Animated figures from the text come to life and allow students to visualize phenomena and processes that can't be represented on the printed page. In addition to viewing animations of the figures from the text, students can change variables to see the effects, conduct suggested explorations of the principles involved in the figure, and take and receive feedback on quizzes related to the figure.
   
   
2. Reading Questions - test your students' reading comprehension
   Reading questions test for comprehension of the text material. You can assign these questions as incentive to keep up on the reading assignments.
   
   
3. Guidepost Questions - get organized right from the start
   At the start of each chapter the Guidepost helps your students see the organization of the book connecting previous chapters with following ones. The Guidepost Questions cast a series of essential questions that are answered in the chapter.
   
   
4. Review Questions - end-of-chapter test of understanding
   After reading the chapter and participating in class discussions, end-of-chapter review questions help pull all of it together one final time.
   
   
5. Ranking Tasks - understanding how scientists know
   Ranking questions are designed to help your students understand why scientist can make logical arguments about how nature works.
   
   
6. Seeds eBook Version - immediate access to the textbook: anywhere, anytime
   The online version provides your students with web-based access to a digital version of Michael A. Seeds' best-selling astronomy textbook allowing them a completely interactive learning experience, combining the complete text narrative with Active Figures - animated versions of key illustrations from your text.

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