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2. Who we are……A commitment to science education
Who we are……A commitment to science education. Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publishing (BFW) is part of Macmillan Science and Education. Our sister companies include: the Nature Publishing Group as well as Scientific American. Sapling Learning (An Austin, TX based company) was added to our portfolio of companies in As you can easily see, we have a commitment to Science Educational Publishing.
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4. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Houtman | Karr | Interlandi
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
FOR A CHANGING WORLD
© 2013 • Bedford, Freeman & Worth
(BFW) Publishers

5. Meet the Authors Jeneen Interlandi Anne Houtman, PhD Susan Karr, MS
Professor & Head of the School of Life Sciences at RIT
Active researcher in science pedagogy
Susan Karr, MS
Biology Instructor at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN
Active teacher for over 15 years
Campus and community environmental sustainability group member
Degrees in Animal Behavior and Forestry from the University of Georgia
Jeneen Interlandi
Scientific American and The New York Times Magazine contributor
Masters degrees in Environmental Science and Journalism, Columbia
Kaiser Foundation fellowship for global health reporting
Researcher Harvard Medical School and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Anne Houtman, PhD, is Professor and Head of the School of Life Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology, which includes programs in Environmental and Biological Sciences. Her research interests are in the behavioral ecology of birds, and currently research in her laboratory focuses on the ecology and evolution of hummingbird song. She also has an active research program in science pedagogy. Anne received her doctorate in zoology from the University of Oxford and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto.
Susan Karr, MS, is an Instructor in the Biology Department of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, and has been teaching for over 15 years. She has served on campus and community environmental sustainability groups and helps produce an annual “State of the Environment” report on the environmental health of her county. In addition to teaching non-majors courses in environmental science and human biology, she teaches an upper-level course in animal behavior where she and her students train dogs from the local animal shelter in a program that improves the animals’ chances of adoption. She received degrees in Animal Behavior and Forestry from the University of Georgia.
Jeneen Interlandi is a science writer who contributes to Scientific American and The New York Times Magazine. Previously, she spent four years as a staff writer for Newsweek, where she covered health, science, and the environment. In 2009, she received a Kaiser Foundation fellowship for global health reporting and traveled to Europe and Asia to cover outbreaks of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Jeneen has worked as a researcher at both Harvard Medical School and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. She holds Masters degrees in Environmental Science and Journalism, both from Columbia University in New York.

6. Environmental Science
Book Features
Environmental Science
for a Changing World
Captivates students with real-world stories
Explores the science concepts in context
Engaging stories
Vivid photos and infographics
(McMurdo Station, Pg. 23)
Environmental Science for a Changing World captivates students with real-world stories while exploring the science concepts in context. Engaging stories plus vivid photos and infographics make the content relevant and visually enticing. The result is a text that emphasizes environmental, scientific, and information literacies in a way that engages students.
Science Taught in the Context of Real-World Stories
Engaging stories illuminate pressing environmental issues in context. Each story features scientists working in the field and everyday people tackling environmental problems and finding solutions.
Running Margin Glossary means students encounter important terms in context.
Real Voices, Characters, and Photos draw students in and bring concepts to life.
Pictures are of the McMurdo Station, the largest human settlement in the Antarctic, and of Susan Solomon at the McMurdo Station in 1987 (Chapter 2, page 23). There is a map later in this presentation that shows where the station is located.

7. Science Taught in the Context of
Book Features
Science Taught in the Context of
Real-World Stories
Each story features scientists working in the field and everyday people tackling environmental problems and finding solutions.
Running Margin Glossary means students encounter important terms in context.
Real Voices, Characters, and Photos draw students in and bring concepts to life.
Environmental Science for a Changing World captivates students with real-world stories while exploring the science concepts in context. Engaging stories plus vivid photos and infographics make the content relevant and visually enticing. The result is a text that emphasizes environmental, scientific, and information literacies in a way that engages students.
Science Taught in the Context of Real-World Stories
Engaging stories illuminate pressing environmental issues in context. Each story features scientists working in the field and everyday people tackling environmental problems and finding solutions.
Running Margin Glossary means students encounter important terms in context.
Real Voices, Characters, and Photos draw students in and bring concepts to life.
Pictured: Susan Solomon at the McMurdo Station in 1987 (Chapter 2, page 23). There is a map later in this presentation that shows where the station is located.
(Susan Solomon at the McMurdo Station, Pg. 23) >>

8. Providing Information for the Future
A Core Message begins every chapter summarizing key chapter ideas and proposing guiding questions.
End of Chapter Quizzes are meant to engage and captivate readers.
Analyzing the Science
Evaluating New Information
Making Connections
(Chapter 3 – Page 39) >>
Environmental Science for a Changing World is full of Skills and Information that Students Can Use Years From Now
Every chapter begins with a Core Message summarizing key chapter ideas.
End of Chapter Quizzes are meant to engage and captivate readers.
Analyzing the Science questions ask students to use the concepts they learned in the chapter to think like a scientist and answer data-based problems to enhance science literacy skills.
Evaluating New Information questions ask students to evaluate sources of information presented online and in the media to develop their information literacy skills.
Making Connections problems ask students to apply critical thinking skills to case scenarios to build their environmental literacy skills.
Example from Page 39 in printed text

9. Analyzing the Science
These questions ask students to use the concepts they learned in the chapter to think like a scientist and answer data-based problems to enhance science literacy skills.
(Pg. 36) >>
Analyzing the Science from page 36 in the printed text (Chapter 2)

10. Evaluating New Information
These exercises ask students to evaluate sources of information presented online and in the media to develop their information literacy skills. (Pg. 127) >>
Evaluating New Information is from Chapter 7, page 127 in the printed text; picture of wolf from website listed in slide

11. Making Connections
These problems ask students to apply critical thinking skills to case scenarios to build their environmental literacy skills. (Pg. 221) >>
Making Connections is from Chapter 12, page 221
Picture from Chapter introduction on pages (“At home on the range, bison graze the slopes of their refuge on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana.”)

12. Real World Explanations
Biomimicry and Bring It Home features show students inspiring solutions to environmental problems.
<<
Infographic 2.5
(Pg. 31)
>>
Bring It Home
(Pg. 35)
Infographic 2.5 from page 31 of the printed text
Picture from ‘Bring It Home’ on page 35 of printed text

13. Biomimicry a frequent theme in the chapters
using nature’s models and strategies to solve human problems sustainably
<< (Pg. 142)
Infographic 8.7 is from page 142 of printed text

14. Bring It Home
considers ways students can address environmental issues on the individual, group, and political level
(Pg. 145)
From Chapter 8, page 145 of the printed text

15. Engaging Images
allow readers to engage the information in a visual manner that is appealing and productive
allow the use of visual queues
Infographic 2.7 from page 34 of printed text
Map from page 22 in the printed text
^ Infographic 2.7 (Pg. 34)
Map (Pg. 22) ^

16. Infographics
combine easy-to-follow images with straight-forward explanations, plus charts, graphs and tables
give a complete picture of a fundamental scientific principle
<< (Pg. 133)
Infographic 8.1 is from page 133 in the printed text.

17. Maps (Pgs. 130 & 132) appear in every chapter
anchor the story to a geographical location
present new data
help students develop skills in geography and map reading
Maps from Chapter 8, found on pages 130 and 132 in the printed text.

18. Products and Supplements
Fully Interactive eBook –
Book Companion Site –
EnviroPortal –
Computerized Test Bank
Instructor’s resource DVD
Chapter 2 (Pg. 20) as seen on e-Book >>
Along with the Environmental Science for a Changing World textbooks, Bedford, Freeman, and Worth also offer an array of media supplements to help both inside and outside the classroom.
Fully Interactive eBook allows students to use the text through any compatible electronic device. These eBooks are customizable and contain the full text as well as integrated study tools and web links. (
The Book Companion Site is a free tool that offers online quizzes, as well as resources for both teachers and students. A full assessment along with a gradebook are included. (
If you are looking to take your course online, there is no better tool than EnviroPortal. Merging our browser-based eBook and other resources, Enviroportal is your ready-made website. It includes a powerful quizzing engine, and assignment center, and resource center, where all student responses and grades are fed directly to your grade book. (
Computerized Test Bank gives instructors the ability to
add, edit, re-sequence, and print any of the dozens of
carefully crafted questions, including short answer,
multiple choice, and fill in the blank.
Instructor’s resource DVD also helps instructors by providing
them with presentation tools, course management information
and assessment resources.

19. Fully interactive e-Book
Customizable & compatible
Full text + integrated study tools and web links
(Pg. 303)
Fully Interactive eBook allows students to use the text through any compatible electronic device. These eBooks are customizable and contain the full text as well as integrated study tools and web links. (
Infographic 17.2 is on page 303 in the text, but this is how it appears on the e-Book.

20. Screen shot of our Book Companion Website
Screen shot of our Book Companion Website. A free resouce for our adopters.

21. Free Book Companion Site
Online quizzes
Both student resources and teacher resources
Includes gradebook and full assessment
The Book Companion Site is a free tool that offers online quizzes, as well as resources for both teachers and students. A full assessment along with a gradebook are included. The Book Companion Site’s Key Term flash card feature is shown here. (

22. EnviroPortal E-Book Learning Curve Assessments
Student and Teacher Resources
Assignments and Gradebook
If you are looking to take your course online, there is no better tool than EnviroPortal. Merging our browser-based eBook and other resources, Enviroportal is your ready-made website. It includes a powerful quizzing engine, and assignment center, and resource center, where all student responses and grades are fed directly to your grade book. This is what your Home Page on EnviroPortal will look like. (

23. A Screen shot of our premium resource, EnviroPortal.

24. Computerized Test Bank
Gives instructors the ability to
Add
Edit
re-sequence
print
any of the dozens of carefully crafted questions, including
short answer
multiple choice
fill in the blank
<< (Pg. 479)

25. Instructor’s Resource DVD
Helps instructors by providing them with
presentation tools
course management
information
assessment resources
Lecture Outline for Chapter 7 from IRDVD

26. Pricing and ISBNs Hardcover ∙ $90 ∙ 1-4641-3573-8
Teacher’s Edition ∙ $90 ∙ X
1-Use e-Book ∙ $45 ∙
6-Use e-Book ∙ $90 ∙
Text & 6-use e-Book ∙ $105 ∙
Computerized Test Bank ∙ $ ∙
Book Companion Site ∙ Free

27. TEKS Correlations available for all texts!
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