This text is the product of collaboration between the content rigor provided by Earth Science specialists (McConnell, Park, Steer) and the results of research on learning as contributed by pedagogical experts (Knight, Owens). It has been explicitly designed to be compatible with inquiry-based, active learning in the college classroom. The structural elements of this text will allow the instructor to incorporate these student-centered teaching methods into their Earth Science course.
Provides information about the planets in the solar system, listing facts about planet sizes, names, orbits, moons, and composition, and discussing how the planets are observed and studied.
With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine.
