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Assist students in their comprehension of the material

A Study Plan tied to Learning Outcomes. New numbered learning outcomes introduce each chapter and are associated with every section heading, giving students a roadmap for their reading. Each chapter concludes with a Study Plan, which summarizes key points of the chapter and provides review questions to check understanding, all tied to the chapter’s learning outcomes. A Study Plan item covering all learning outcomes in the chapter is assignable in Mastering™ Health.
End-of-section, multiple choice review questions help students confirm that they achieved an understanding of the learning outcome for that section.

Keep your course current and relevant with updated content

Chapter on Sleep, Your Body, and Your Mind. Previously available only as an electronic chapter, the topic of sleep has been thoroughly updated and expanded in the printed text and now follows the Stress Management chapter. This extensively revised chapter covers everything from how sleep affects health to how to get your best night’s sleep and includes the most up-to-date research on sleep.
Chapter 15: Personal Safety now includes material that is vital to students, such as gun safety and Title IX.
Student Stats present up-to-date national statistics and research on key health topics that apply to today’s college population.

Make reading and learning about health accessible and visually appealing

Book design with upbeat, modern photos, visual appeal, and streamlined content, make the book cleaner, more fun to read, and easier to navigate for students.
Boxed features use photos and a dynamic design to make the content pop, and help students relate to the material:

What Do You Think? questions appear in relevant feature boxes throughout the text and in the end-of-chapter material, prompting students to think more deeply and better comprehend the material.
Special Feature boxes highlight hot topics in health, including what the Affordable Care Act means for students; social networking, communication, and cyber-bullying; and emerging infectious diseases.

Encourage behavior change

Choose This, Not That features speak to individual behaviors that are good vs. bad choices (for example, a healthy choice for stress management vs. an unhealthy one). Photos and explanations of each behavior reinforce the healthy choice students should make in the situation.

Also available as a Pearson eText or packaged with Mastering Health

Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience that can be adopted on its own as the main course material. It lets students highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place, even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class – motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning.

Mastering Health is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced tutorials provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts.

Interactive Behavior Change Activities: Which Path Would You Take? allow students to explore various health choices through an engaging, interactive, low-stakes, and anonymous experience. These activities are assignable in Mastering Health with follow-up questions, and show students the possible consequences of various choices they make today on their future health.
ABC News Videos bring health to life and spark discussion with up-to-date hot topics from 2012 to 2015, and include multiple-choice questions that provide wrong-answer feedback to redirect students to the correct answer.
Health Coaching Activities have been added, guiding students through key health concepts with interactive mini-lessons that provide hints and feedback.
Choosing to Change Worksheets features are now available as assignable labs within Mastering Health. Changing long-ingrained behaviors is tough, and this worksheet-style feature encourages students to take the first step by determining their stage of behavior change, evaluating their current behaviors, articulating realistic SMART goals, and completing activities that help them determine appropriate next steps.
NutriTools Coaching Activities, located in the Nutrition chapter, allow students to combine and experiment with different food options and learn firsthand how to build healthier meals.
Learning Catalytics^™helps you generate class discussion, customize your lecture, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.

NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint^® deck for easy creation of slide questions
NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive
Help your students develop critical thinking skills
Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling
Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy
Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning

Dynamic Study Modules help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time. Here's how it works: students complete a set of questions with a unique answer format that also asks them to indicate their confidence level. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently. Once completed, Dynamic Study Modules explain the concept using materials from the text. These are available as graded assignments prior to class, and accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers. NEW! Instructors can now remove questions from Dynamic Study Modules to better fit their course.
Pearson eText optimized for mobile

eText mobile app offers offline access and can be downloaded for most iOS and Android phones/tablets from the Apple App Store or Google Play
Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media
Accessible (screen-reader ready)
Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode
Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search

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