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- All chapters include a feature for Case Study, Perspectives on Teaching, Professional Tip, and Philosophy of Teaching. These features capture student interest about various aspects of teaching.
- Content is provided about common challenges faced in the teaching profession to prepare students for the reality of a teaching career, while Journaling Activities provide opportunities to practice writing and communication skills as students record and reflect on their thoughts and experiences.
- This title is correlated to the industry-recognized credentials offered by Precision Exams, by YouScience: Teaching as a Profession II as well as AAFCS Pre-PAC standards for Education Fundamentals.
- The text is written specifically for high school students, including the content needed for a science or health science program. Easy-to-read tables about diseases, disorders, and trauma provide important information in a short amount of time in a format that is easy to study.
- New HOSA–Future Health Professionals activities encourage student and instructor involvement in HOSA and help prepare students for competitive events.
- This title is correlated to the industry-recognized credentials offered by YouScience® Industry Certifications and NCHSE National Health Science Standards for Human Structure, Function and Disease A and B exams.
- Written specifically for high school students, the chapters in this textbook are divided into lessons, providing content in a manageable format. Study aids, including learning outcomes, chapter summaries, and extensive assessment opportunities increase students’ ability to succeed.
- New HOSA–Future Health Professionals activities encourage student and instructor involvement in HOSA and help prepare students for competitive events.
- This title is correlated to the industry-recognized credentials offered by Precision Exams, by YouScience and NCHSE National Health Science Standards for Health Science I and II.
- Now available in addition to the Online Learning Suite, G-W Ignite offers auto-graded practice aligned to course learning outcomes so teachers can easily track student mastery of key concepts. Ask your Educational Consultant about upgrading to G-W Ignite for a full curriculum solution online.
- Medical terms are presented in context and dissected into relevant word parts to help beginning students understand the connection between individual word-part meanings and the definitions of terms as a whole.
- Cumulative Reviews provide additional reinforcement and check-ins every few chapters to encourage retained knowledge.
- Classroom-proven activities like Patient medical record activities and NEW workplace skills labs provide students with valuable critical-thinking opportunities and help them apply chapter content to HOSA competitive events and future health science careers.
- Correlated to the YouScience® Industry Certifications Medical Terminology industry-recognized credential, helping students obtain certificates that increase their employability.
- Now available in addition to the Online Learning Suite, G-W Ignite offers auto-graded practice aligned to course learning outcomes so teachers can easily track student mastery of key concepts. Ask your Educational Consultant about upgrading to G-W Ignite for a full curriculum solution online.
- The text coverage and figures have been updated to the ASME Y14.5-2018 standard.
- Drawing problems progress from basic to advanced, and star icons are used to identify the problems as basic, intermediate, or advanced.
- Numerous special features—Before You Begin, Careers in Drafting, Industry Connection, and Communicating about Drafting—promote student engagement and class discussions.
- The end-of-chapter drawing problems help students build problem-solving skills and practice drafting techniques.
- Supplemental student Worksheets provide hands-on practice with drawing activities that correspond to the end-of-chapter drawing problems in the textbook.
- Strong end-of chapter pedagogy designed to assess multiple levels of learning with Know and Understand, Apply and Analyze, and Critical Thinking questions, as well as Communicating about Engineering.
- Students learn methods to identify problems, brainstorm, and develop solutions.
- Correlated to the Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy.
- The works of major child development theorists, such as Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky, Gardner, and Kohlberg are featured throughout the text. These examples of renowned work provide important information needed when working with young children.
- Mental Health Advisories provide information about risk factors, such as toxic stress, to raise awareness of understanding about factors that can contribute to mental health problems throughout life.
- Brand New Video Library showcases authentic experiences of children in the classroom and at play. These videos, alongside reading and provided activities, questions, and discussions related to the video allow instructor to show how children interact with each other and with adults.
- Now available in addition to the Online Learning Suite, G-W Ignite offers auto-graded practice aligned to course learning outcomes so teachers can easily track student mastery of key concepts. Ask your Educational Consultant about upgrading to G-W Ignite for a full curriculum solution online.
- This title includes the content students need to pursue the Child Development Associate Credential™ and covers information about licensing rules and regulations, various career paths, safety considerations, curriculum, and classroom management.
- Reinforcement about ethical principles and practices in the early childhood profession by highlighting excerpts from the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment core values and principles of conduct.
- Brand New Video Library showcases authentic experiences of children in the classroom and at play. These videos, alongside reading and provided activities, questions, and discussions related to the video allow instructor to show how children interact with each other and with adults.
- Now available in addition to the Online Learning Suite, G-W Ignite offers auto-graded practice aligned to course learning outcomes so teachers can easily track student mastery of key concepts. Ask your Educational Consultant about upgrading to G-W Ignite for a full curriculum solution online.
Java is an easy-to-learn programming language that has many applications. Introduction to Computer Science: Java Programming is designed to introduce students to the basics of Java programming, while making cross-curricular connections to math, science, and language arts.
The text begins by covering the computer science concepts of computational thinking and encoding to prepare students for coding in Java. The journey begins by constructing a simple program. It then progresses by creating more intricate programs while learning about variables, expressions, classes, repetition, and much more.
By studying this text, students will have many opportunities to apply the coding knowledge they have acquired, including troubleshooting and debugging errors. In addition, they will learn about the careers open to computer programmers as well as the impact computer science has on society.
- The content is written specifically for the secondary market, using an instructional design appropriate for students.
- A unique approach is used by providing instruction for computer science concepts in the context of Java programming.
- Cross-curricular features (math, science, and language arts) are presented throughout. This enables students to connect coding knowledge and skills to everyday subjects.
- English language arts skills are applied throughout each chapter from the Tier 3 vocabulary terms to the reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities in the Communication Skills section at the end of each chapter.
- Essential Question at the beginning of each chapter section engages students as they uncover the main topics presented in the content.
- Activity files are provided on the student companion website to provide hands on opportunities for students
- Lab manual is available to extend learning and application of coding skills
Principles of Food Science demonstrates how the laws of science are at work in producing, processing, preparing, preserving, and metabolizing food. Students learn how cooking, health, and storage tips connect science basics to daily food encounters. The text covers the basic laws of chemistry, microbiology, and physics as they relate to food components and complex food systems. Students learn scientific facts and principles that they can apply to a future food science career and to more-creative, nutritious home cooking. The requirements and opportunities for obtaining a food science career are explored as well as the impact of this career path on local, national, and global economies.
- A new chapter addresses biotechnology and its impact on the food supply.
- New “Farm Futures” features in every chapter emphasize the connection to the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources career cluster.
- The value of different types of evaluations—scientific vs. sensory—are examined, with applications to school lab experiments and commercial food product development.
This program includes everything you need to teach a Cybersecurity course and help prepare students for industry-recognized certification: CompTIA Security+ and Microsoft MTA Security Fundamentals. The certification-driven text is designed with effective pedagogical elements – pretests and posttests, certification objectives, essential questions, key terms, and learning goals, plus formative and summative assessments and activities – to foster critical-thinking, research, and communication skills. End-of-chapter sections include many differentiated learning opportunities: Application and Extension of Knowledge, research projects, online activities CTSO Event Prep Suggestions, and Portfolio Development guidelines. The Laboratory Manual provides hands-on practice with questions and lab activities, and the Companion Website features interactive activities.
Special features throughout the text include:
- Case Studies that connect the content to real-life situation
- Ethical Issues that present situations which require good judgment
- Quick Look features that give students hands-on applications
- A unit is dedicated to career paths in education and training and human services and Case Studies are included in every chapter to help students relate classroom learning to the real world.
- Special features throughout the text address cultural diversity, health, and safety.
- Now available in addition to the Online Learning Suite, G-W Ignite offers auto-graded practice aligned to course learning outcomes so teachers can easily track student mastery of key concepts. Ask your Educational Consultant about upgrading to G-W Ignite for a full curriculum solution online.
Introduction to Health Science delivers up-to-date health science content to high school students and supports instructors in teaching an introduction to the careers in health science. Written specifically for the high school market, the structure of the text presents the content in a student-friendly lesson-based approach. Content broken into smaller chunks to make content more manageable for students. The content is organized to make it easier than ever for instructors to teach according to the National Health Science standards. An abundance of instructor materials, such as lesson plans, handouts, and pacing guides increase instructors’ success in translating technical material to high school students. Students will stay engaged with study aids, such as video clips, image labeling practice, activities, extensive assessment opportunities, and connections to HOSA—Future Health Professionals.
- Healthcare Professions features connect health science content to real-world experiences in a true introduction to healthcare careers.
- Procedures help students understand and practice the step-by-step skills required in a variety of healthcare careers.
- This title is correlated to the industry-recognized credentials offered by Precision Exams, by YouScience and NCHSE National Health Science Standards for Health Science I and II.
- Now available in addition to the Online Learning Suite, G-W Ignite offers auto-graded practice aligned to course learning outcomes so teachers can easily track student mastery of key concepts. Ask your Educational Consultant about upgrading to G-W Ignite for a full curriculum solution online.
Introduction to Computer Science: Coding is a one-of-a-kind text that introduces younger students to the exciting world of computer coding. Built for exploring computer science courses, this text shows students how easy it is to learn coding and is a great tool for encouraging students to pursue additional courses in computer science and IT. Designed for the classroom, this text provides a foundation in the concepts of programming using easy-to-learn, free software: Scratch, MIT App Inventor, OpenSCAD, and HTML.
- Hands-On examples in each chapter walk students through coding examples so they can learn by doing.
- Team-based activities, Cooperative Coding, encourage teamwork while creating coding projects.
- Problem-solving skills are developed through Coding Conundrum features, which present students with code that must be analyzed and fixed.
- In addition to learning programming, students have an opportunity to make cross-curricular connections with Math and Coding and Science and Coding features along with language arts activities at the end of each chapter.
- A robust introduction to economics helps students connect what they have learned about financial literacy to current national economic issues and to the global economy.
- Units on career planning and digital citizenship help students prepare for careers in the modern world while Employability Skills features focus on the soft skills necessary for job success and Event Prep integrates competitions for FBLA, BPA, and DECA.
- Alignment to Jump$tart National Standards for Personal Financial Education and correlation to the Precision Exams by YouScience Personal Financial Responsibility exam helps students obtain real-world job skills and achieve certification.
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