Earth

An exciting revision of this innovative text, Earth: Portrait of a Planet, Third Edition, emphasizes active student learning with a new chapter format, interactive media, and the power and insight of Google Earth™.

The first textbook to utilize Google Earth™.

Using satellite and aerial photography, Google Earth™ creates spectacular 3-D maps of the planet's surface. Utilizing this technology, Steven Marshak has developed Geotours for every chapter in the text, taking students on virtual fieldtrips where they can apply textbook lessons to real-world geological features.  Appearing in the book as large two page spreads, Geotours can be incorporated into engaging lectures that work seamlessly with the book. More than just eye-candy, these cutting-edge features provide longitude and latitude coordinates to help the student navigate through a geologic feature. Each Geotour corresponds with an assignable WorkSheet Activity on StudySpace.

New active-learning pedagogy.

The Third Edition includes chapters framed by a Geopuzzle or guiding question, and conclude with a Take-Home Message and On Further Thought questions which synthesize core ideas and help students retain information.

The most pedagogically helpful artwork.

With over 100 new figures, including new "What a Geologist Sees" figures, revised and improved synoptic paintings by Gary Hincks, more satellite photos, as well as new animations on StudySpace and zoomable images on the instructors' CD-ROM, the Earth art program is as visually appealing as it is pedagogically sound.

Outstanding lecture tools.

The Earth: Videos of a Planet Instructor's DVD features 24 short film clips carefully selected from the U.S. Geological Survey archives. New 3D simulations illustrate complex geologic phenomena on subjects including the formation of the solar system, plate tectonics, continental collision, and glacier erosion. The Instructors CD-Rom includes, online lecture PowerPoints, clicker questions, illustrations and photographs from the text, and more, provide a rich array of visual resources for use in the classroom.

Instructor Companion Site

The Instructor Companion Site provides downloadable instructor materials.

Geotours Workbook

Worksheets accompany each chapter’s Geotour—23 in all—and can be assigned as homework assignments and lab activities. Available online via StudySpace or as a free workbook packaged with the text, these worksheets ask students to make observations and measurements of actual geologic sites in order to better learn important concepts in each chapter. The workbook includes a introductory tutorial on how to use Geotours, a Geotours Guide two-page spread, and a worksheet exercise for each Geotour.

Zoomable Art

Explore Gary Hincks's spectacular synoptic paintings in vivid detail using the zoomable art feature. Ideal for lecture use, these figures run locally from within PowerPoint—no plug-ins required.

Lecture PowerPoints

These illustrated default lecture outlines emphasize key points from each chapter.

Lecture-ready Illustrations and Photographs

Fully accessible for lecture use, these electronically distributed figures were carefully reviewed to insure consistent high quality that will project well.

GeoQuiz Clicker Questions

Multiple-choice questions for use in classrooms equipped with "clicker" devices.

Supplemental Slide Set

This collection of 35mm slides supplements the photographs from the text with additional images from Stephen Marshak's own photo archives.

Transparencies

Approximately 200 figures from the text are available as color acetates.

Instructor's Manual and Test Bank

This manual offers useful material to help instructors as they prepare their lectures and includes over 1,200 multiple choice test and true-false test questions. The test bank is available in printed form, and electronically in Blackboard-ready formats.

Animations

Over sixty original animations, developed by Professor Marshak to illustrate dynamic Earth processes, emphasize plate tectonics, geological hazards, and earth systems science concepts. With 20 new animations for the Third Edition, these high-quality animations and can be enlarged to full screen view for lecture display, and include VCR-like controls that allow instructors to control the pace of the animation during lecture. These animations can be accessed conveniently from the free StudySpace student website. Offline versions of the animations are available on the Instructor's CD-ROM, linked from PowerPoint slides for easy classroom display.

Instructor DVD

• Simulations: These state-of-the-art animations focus on the hardest to understand geologic processes.
• Film Clips: The Earth: Videos of a Planet Instructor's DVD features 24 short film clips carefully selected from the U.S. Geological Survey archives, for use in physical geology lectures.