Principles of Life 2e | LaunchPad

Beginning in January 2014, BioPortal for Principles of Life is becoming LaunchPad. With this “next generation” online learning space, it’s easy to set up and customize your course—and to deliver assignments to your students. LaunchPad’s interactive units bring together video, simulations, animations, and e-Book content, giving you a foundation for an online syllabus to use as-is, or as a starting point for creating your own learning units.

LaunchPad features New Principles of Life, Second Edition LearningCurve 

With powerful adaptive quizzing and a game-like format, LearningCurve is a quickly implemented, highly effective way to get students more involved. Rather than simply taking a standard quiz, students answer questions based on their own level of understanding. The level of the questions adapts to the level of performance—easier or harder as needed. Feedback, including links to e-Book sections, help students find the answers they need. The personalized study plan that is generated helps students focus their study time on the areas that need it most. The instructor’s report gives you an instant snapshot of your students’ comprehension of each chapter, broken down by section, and links to all of the student and instructor media resources available for each section.

 

Apply the Concept and Analyze the Data problems require students to synthesize information, problem-solve using critical thinking, interpret real data, and more.

 

Each pre-built Chapter Quiz gives instructors a quick assessment of how well their students have mastered the chapter’s material.

Active Learning Exercises (in LaunchPad) can be used to stimulate classroom discussions. 

Click the image to download a sample Active Learning Exercise (PowerPoint).

 

Activities help students learn important facts and concepts through labeling steps in processes, identifying parts of structures, building diagrams, and identifying different types of organisms.

Thousands of questions available in multiple formats (print, Word documents, online and Diploma test-creation software) including a wide range of question types at all levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. All questions are tagged by textbook section and Bloom’s category, making it easy for you to construct assessments with the right mix of question types and levels.