[Ebook PDF] Campbell Biology in Focus, 3rd Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0134710679
ISBN-10: 0134710673

Author: Lisa Urry (Author), Michael Cain (Author), Steven Wasserman (Author), Peter Minorsky (Author), Rebecca Orr (Author)

For introductory biology course for science majors

Focus. Practice. Engage.

Built unit-by-unit, Campbell Biology in Focus achieves a balance between breadth and depth of concepts to move students away from memorization. Streamlined content enables students to prioritize essential biology content, concepts, and scientific skills that are needed to develop conceptual understanding and an ability to apply their knowledge in future courses. Every unit takes an approach to streamlining the material to best fit the needs of instructors and students, based on reviews of over 1,000 syllabi from across the country, surveys, curriculum initiatives, reviews, discussions with hundreds of biology professors, and the Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education report.

Maintaining the Campbell hallmark standards of accuracy, clarity, and pedagogical innovation, the 3rd Edition builds on this foundation to help students make connections across chapters, interpret real data, and synthesize their knowledge. The new edition integrates new, key scientific findings throughout and offers more than 450 videos and animations in Mastering Biology and embedded in the new Pearson eText to help students actively learn, retain tough course concepts, and successfully engage with their studies and assessments.

PREFACE
The eye of the iguana (Iguana iguana) that gazes attentively from the cover of this book has a suite of evolutionary adaptations that give it excellent color vision and long-distance vision, helping the iguana find food and avoid predators.
The iguana’s remarkable eye is an apt metaphor for our goal in writing this text: to focus with high intensity on the core concepts that introductory biology students need to master to build a solid foundation in biology. The current explosion of biological information, while exhilarating in its scope, poses a significant challengehow best to teach a subject that is constantly expanding.
In particular, instructors have become increasingly concerned that their students are overwhelmed by an excessive volume of detail and are losing sight of the big ideas in biology. In response to this challenge, various groups of biologists have initiated efforts to refine and, in some cases, redesign the introductory biology course. In particular, the report Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action* advocates focusing course material and instruction on key ideas while transforming the classroom through active learning and scientific inquiry.
Many instructors have embraced such approaches and have changed how they teach. Cutting back on the amount of detail they present, they focus on core biological concepts, explore select examples, and engage in a rich variety of active learning exercises.
We were inspired by these ongoing changes in biology education to write Campbell Biology in Focus, a shorter textbook that has been received with widespread excitement by instructors. Guided by their feedback, we have honed the Third Edition so that it does an even better job of helping students explore the key questions, approaches, and ideas of modern biology.
New to This Edition
Our goals for the Third Edition include:
• increasing visual literacy through new figures, questions, and exercises that build students’ skills in understanding and creating visual representations of biological structures and processes
• giving students the opportunity to practice scientific skills by applying scientific skills to real-world problems
• integrating text and media to engage, guide, and inform students in an active process of inquiry and learning
• supporting instructors by providing teaching modules with tools and materials for introducing, teaching, and assessing important and often challenging topics
Our starting point, as always, was our commitment to crafting text and visuals that are accurate, are current, and reflect our passion for teaching biology. Here we provide an overview of the new features that we have developed for the Third Edition. We invite you to explore pages xi-xxii for more information and examples.