GeologyPortal for Understanding Earth, Sixth Edition, features:
Interactive eBook
This online version of Understanding Earth, Sixth Edition, combines the text, all existing student media resources and additional study features including highlighting, bookmarking, note-taking, Google-style searching, in-text glossary definitions of terms and outlinks to Google.
Personalized Study Plan
GeologyPortal offers students a test to see where their strengths and weaknesses in understanding physical geology are. The results of that test generate a detailed study plan showing students the area where they need to focus their attention. Instructors can also access these results to see topics which need further explanation.
Assignments for Online Quizzing, Homework and Self-Study
Instructors can create and assign automatically-graded homework and quizzes from the complete test bank, which is pre-loaded in GeologyPortal. It also includes Mastery Quizzes for each chapter. All quiz results feed directly into the instructor's gradebook.
There are a number of resources unique to this GeologyPortal:
New Animations and Simulations.
These easily assignable and assessable new interactive features are based on the extraordinary new art program for Understanding Earth, Sixth Edition, including the book's new 3-D figures and multi-stage conceptual drawings.
EarthInquiry Modules
Now integrated within GeologyPortal, this series of Web-based investigation activities is the first interactive project in which students analyze real-time national and local data to explore real-world phenomena. It provides your class with a true inquiry and assessment solution in one.
Video Exercises
A virtual field trip for your whole class! Explore geological phenomena with these exclusive 2 to 5 minute video tutorials shot around the world firsthand by Jerry Magloughlin of Colorado State. Each video is accompanied by a list of key concepts and vocabulary, an automatically-graded quiz, a vocabulary matching exercise, and discussion questions. Results from the exercises can be fed directly into the instructor's gradebook.
ScieCentral Videos
These 1 to 3 minute news features (all recently aired on primetime news) offer expert analysis of geological events that have headline-making impact on our lives