Understanding Our Universe
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First Day of Class PowerPoint
Coursepacks
Available at no cost to professors or students, Norton coursepacks bring high-quality Norton digital media into a new or existing online course. Content includes chapter-based assignments, test banks and quizzes, interactive learning tools, and all content from the StudySpace website. This customizable resource includes links to the AstroTours and Applets, Quiz+ and Test Bank questions, plus discussion questions from the Reading Astronomy News features.
Instructor's Manual
W. W. Norton
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The Instructor’s Manual includes instructor chapter and section summaries with discussion questions, lecture outlines to accompany the PowerPoint lecture slides, notes on the AstroTour animations and Interactive Simulations contained on the Norton Resource Disc and StudySpace, worked solutions to all of the end-of-chapter problems, instructor's notes for the Starry Night Workbook activities, and teaching suggestions for how to use the Reading Astronomy News and the Exploration elements found in the textbook. Suggested classroom demonstrations/activities with handouts are also provided. more
Lecture Slides
These ready-made lecture outlines include selected art from the text, clicker questions, and offline and lecture-ready versions of the AstroTours. Lecture notes for each chapter are provided in the Instructor’s Manual.
Art Slides
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| Art Slides, PowerPoint, Part I Chapters 1 - 4 | Sample Chapter 2
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| Art Slides, PowerPoint, Part II Chapters 5 - 9 | |
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| Art Slides, PowerPoint, Part III Chapters 10 - 13 | |
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| Art Slides, PowerPoint, Part IV Chapters 14 - 18 / Appendix 1 - 4 | |
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| Art Slides, JPEG, Part I Chapters 1 - 4 | Sample Chapter 2
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| Art Slides, JPEG, Part II Chapters 5 - 9 | |
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| Art Slides, JPEG, Part III Chapters 10 - 13 | |
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| Art Slides, JPEG, Part IV Chapters 14 - 18 / Appendix 1 - 4 | |
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Test Bank
W. W. Norton
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The Test Bank has been developed using the Norton Assessment Guidelines and provides a quality bank of over 1,300 items. Each chapter of the Test Bank consists of three question types classified according to Norton’s taxonomy of knowledge types: Factual, Applied, and Conceptual. Questions are further classified by section and difficulty, making it easy to construct tests and quizzes that are meaningful and diagnostic. The question types are short answer, multiple choice, and true/false. more
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| Test Bank, EXAMVIEW® 7.5 Assessment Suite, Win includes data test banks | |
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| Test Bank, EXAMVIEW® 7.51 Assessment Suite, Mac OS 10.4-10.7 (works with Lion) includes data test banks | |
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| Test Bank, Blackboard 6 - 7 | |
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| Test Bank, Blackboard 7.1 - 9 | |
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| Test Bank, Blackboard CE 6 / Vista 4 | |
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| Test Bank, Angel 7.4 | |
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| Test Bank, PDF | |
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| Test Bank, Word RTF | |
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Interactive Simulations
Astrotours
Instructor Multimedia Package
W. W. Norton
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The Test Bank has been developed using the Norton Assessment Guidelines and provides a quality bank of over 1,300 items. Each chapter of the Test Bank consists of three question types classified according to Norton’s taxonomy of knowledge types: Factual, Applied, and Conceptual. Questions are further classified by section and difficulty, making it easy to construct tests and quizzes that are meaningful and diagnostic. The question types are short answer, multiple choice, and true/false. more