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Essentials of Physical Geography

Montgomery, Bierman, and Ziegler

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Within the Norton Illumine Ebook, students get:

  • Bite-sized Exploring Geography prompts that guide students to engage with authentic sites on Google Earth, strengthening real-world connections 

  • Live Check Your Understanding questions at the end of each section, helping students stay on task and motivated. Instructors see if students completed the questions, time spent, and number of attempts. 

  • Interactive Activities that ask students to make decisions about real world scenarios and apply geography skills to life. 

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  • InQuizitive helps students develop their spatial reasoning and geographic skills through questions that ask them to engage with charts and graphs, maps, figures, images, and videos. It personalizes individual students’ learning paths so they receive more questions on topics they’re struggling with. 

  • Students wager points based on what they think they know, motivating them to complete the assignment. Direct links to the ebook where the material is outlined provide supports when they need it. 

  • Detailed performance analytics help instructors identify where students are struggling so that they can intervene at crucial points during the learning process. 

 
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