Resources to help students visualize and think critically

Norton’s integrated suite of learning resources included with the Sixth Edition of Essential Cell Biology makes the text more assignable, accessible, and supportive of student success than ever before.

Norton’s high-quality content shines bright through engaging and motivational features that illuminate core concepts for all students in a supportive, interactive, and low-stakes environment.

• Embedded Dynamic Figures help students visualize complex cellular processes in action.
• Narrated animations and videos are embedded in the text to give students a visual in-depth look at challenging concepts and processes.
• Check Your Understanding questions with rich answer-specific feedback build student confidence in their learning and keep them on track with the material.
• Instructors can promote student accountability with our easy-to-use assignment tools and by adding their own content and notes.

Smartwork online homework ensures that students can apply core concepts, think critically, and build proficiency with analyzing primary literature. Smartwork makes it easy for you to assign the figures and research from the text.

• Questions, all written by master cell biology instructors, go beyond simple multiple-choice formats with a wide array of dynamic question types-many including charts, figures, and artwork from the book. They span a variety of difficulty levels.
• Premade chapter assignments are ready to go, while customization options give you the ability to add your own questions, edit assignments, or create activities from scratch using our question library.
• Links to the ebook, book-specific hints, and answer-specific feedback provide real-time intervention for students who need guided support.
• The Smartwork gradebook breaks down student progress by assignment and by learning objective, giving you clear insights as to how students are doing.
• The convenience of LMS integration saves you time by allowing Smartwork scores to be reported directly to your LMS gradebook.

Animations and Movies

Animations and movies in the ebook bring the vibrant art program alive and guide students through the course’s most challenging concepts in a visually compelling and clear way.

• We offer nearly 200 in-depth animations and videos that have been carefully created for clarity.
• These visual tools are embedded in the Norton Illumine Ebook and are also available standalone to show in class.
• All the animations are made assignable through dynamic Smartwork questions to ensure that students are getting the most out of the resource.
• Our animations are all book-specific so that representations are all cohesive.

Norton Teaching Tools

The Norton Teaching Tools site is your first stop when looking for creative, diverse resources. This searchable and sortable site is available to you as you look to either refresh your syllabus or design a new one.

• Content includes active learning activities, primary literature suggestions, lecture PowerPoints, and questions for discussion based on the “How We Know” feature in the text.
• Resources are aligned with chapter topics, organized by activity type, and tagged to a common set of learning objectives.
• All content is created by innovative and experienced cell biology instructors.