Mader, Biology, AP Edition / Edition 11

by Sylvia S. Mader Dr.

Overview

Biology's focus on inquiry-based learning coupled with its precise writing style, hallmark art program, and integration of text and digital make it the perfect solution for today's AP Biology classroom. Mader's Biology program also provides valuable supplemental materials to help aid student success in the AP Biology Course (sold separately). Biology begins with an introductory chapter that helps to familiarize students with the AP Biology Curriculum by explaining each Big Idea through the use of thought provoking examples. This chapter also introduces students to the science practices to students and reviews the process of science. Each Unit Opener has been written to pinpoint how the chapters in the Unit relate to the AP Curriculum and the Big Ideas while each chapter opener provides the students with Essential Questions to help guide their reading. The features within the text contain content focused either on one of the AP Big Ideas or on the Nature of Science. Includes: Print Student Edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780076620043
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date:	01/06/2012
Series:	AP BIOLOGY MADER Series
Edition description:	List
Pages:	1024
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.50(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Michael Windelspecht has taught introductory biology, genetics, and human genetics in the online, traditional, and hybrid formats at community colleges, universities, and military institutions. Educated at Michigan State University and the University of South Florida, he is currently an adjunct professor of biology at Appalachian State University. He served for over a decade as the Introductory Biology Coordinator at Appalachian State University, a program that enrolled over 4,500 students annually. As an author and editor, Dr. Windelspecht has published over 20 reference textbooks and multiple print and online lab manuals and has founded several science communication companies, including Ricochet Creative Productions, which develops and assesses new technologies for the science classroom. Learn more about Dr. Windelspecht at www.michaelwindelspecht.com.

Sylvia S. Mader has authored several nationally recognized biology texts published by McGraw-Hill. Educated at Bryn Mawr College, Harvard University, Tufts University, and Nova Southeastern University, she holds degrees in both Biology and Education. Over the years she has taught at University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Massachusetts Bay Community College; Suffolk University; and Nathan Mayhew Seminars. Her ability to reach out to science-shy students led to the writing of her first text, Inquiry into Life, which is now in its fifteenth edition. Highly acclaimed for her crisp and entertaining writing style, her books have become models for others who write in the field of biology.