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MindTap Agriscience, 2 terms (12 months) Instant Access for Herren's The Science of Agriculture: A Biological Approach, 5th Edition
Overview
MindTap Agriscience for Herren’s The Science of Agriculture: A Biological Approach, 5th Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.
As an educator using MindTap, you have at your fingertips the right content and unique set of tools curated specifically for your course, including engaging videos, activities, games, lab exercises, and auto-graded quizzing. Logically organized into content-specific sections containing each of these features, the all-in-one interface is designed to improve workflow and save time when planning lessons and course structure. The control to build and personalize your course is all yours, focusing on the most relevant material while also lowering costs. Stay connected and informed in your course through real-time student tracking that provides the opportunity to adjust the course as needed based on analytics of interactivity in the course.
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Chapter Overviews provide students with an introduction to the main topics presented in each lesson, combining learning objectives with supporting text, images, and graphics in a highly visual PowerPoint presentation.
Logically organized, each reading in the ebook falls under a specific module of learning, including important topics such soil, cells, genetics and genetic engineering, a study of systems, reproduction, growth and diseases in plants and animals, weed science, entomology, forestry, aquaculture, wildlife management, food supply and preservation, fiber production, organically grown products, the future of agriculture, career opportunities, the Agriscience Fair and lab safety.
Videos explore the intricacies of specific topics through engaging narrative and visuals, enabling students to experience realistic industry-related scenarios and expand their knowledge of the content.
Lab Exercises encourage the application of content learned in each lesson, successfully connecting the hands on experience of the lab with interactive online reporting of lab results.
Engaging activities and games, including picture flashcards and image labeling, fill-in-the-blank practice questions, matching, and crossword puzzles serve to reinforce and encourage the practice and remediation of key concepts in each lesson.
Auto-graded quizzing for each lesson tracks students’ progress and acquired knowledge, while providing remediation for areas requiring improvement.
A combined English Glossary/Spanish Glosario App provides instant access to definitions for terms in both English and Spanish, ensuring that all students have equal opportunity to learn key concepts.
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- ISBN-10: 1337271640
- ISBN-13: 9781337271646
- RETAIL $79.95
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The Science of Agriculture: A Biological Approach
ISBN: 9781337271585
THE SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE: A BIOLOGICAL APPROACH, Fifth Edition, masterfully introduces the biological sciences and explores the influences of these sciences on modern agricultural practices and the agricultural industry. Reader-friendly and superbly illustrated, this highly practical text explains not only the “how” of agriculture, but also the “why” behind agriscience, presenting information on plant and animal systems, soils, cell functions, genetics, genetic engineering, plant and animal reproduction, entomology, biotechnology, and environmental concerns. Additionally, the text spotlights career opportunities and discusses new directions in agriculture, including topics such as no-till crops, high-pressure processing in food preservation, fracking, and more, to further engage students with today’s agricultural world.