Description

The online version of the student text delivers a host of interactive features to enhance the teaching and learning experience, and when connected to a class teacher account offers a powerful  Learning Management System.

Interactive features

•  Pre-tests auto-marked in the Interactive Textbook helps students get up to speed on their understanding of prior concepts.
• Auto-marked quizzes give students instant feedback on their progress.
• Videos created in Australia summarise, clarify or extend student knowledge and are indicated by an icon in the print book.
• Interactive widgets demonstrate a concept and are accompanied by a downloadable question set.
• Scorcher – timed, online competition quizzes at the end of each chapter allow students to compete against each other and other schools.
• Workspaces allow students to enter their own working (including scientific notation) for all questions that are not auto-marked directly into the Interactive Textbook. Answers can be typed, drawn or uploaded on a computer or tablet device.
• Self-assessment tools allow students to check their answers, self-assess their working using a four-point scale and use a red flag to alert their teacher if they had trouble with a question.
• Downloadable graded worksheets provide additional questions related to the section topic which can be used for homework or in class.
• Skills worksheets ask students to review a scenario and draw on their working scientifically skills to answer a range of questions.
• Bookmark folders can be created by students with direct links to content they have marked.
• Roll-over glossary definitions.
• Access to the Offline Textbook, a downloadable version of the student text with note-taking and bookmarking enabled.