Month: February 2020

About the Manual

• NEW! Dozens of full-color figures and photos replace black and white line drawings inthe Exercise Review Sheets. Selected labeling questions in the manual can be assigned in Mastering A&P.
• NEW! Clinical Application Questions in the Exercise Review Sheets challenge students to apply lab concepts and critical thinking skills to realworld clinical scenarios.  These streamlined questions are adapted from several of the “Why This Matters,” discussions in the previous edition.
• UPDATED! BIOPAC procedures are included in the manual for eight lab exercises and have been updated for the BIOPAC 4.0 software upgrade.  Procedures for Intelitool®, PowerLab®, and iWorx® remain available in the Instructor Resources area of Mastering A&P®.
• NEW! Mastering A&P Visual Previews appear on the first page of each lab exercise, guiding students to explore a recommended pre-lab video, a related image from Practice Anatomy Lab 3.1 (PAL 3.1), or a helpful animation.
• NEW! Mastering A&P Assignment Recommendations are signaled at appropriate points throughout the manual to help instructors locate and assign related auto-graded activities and assessments.

Instructors and learners will also find:

• • Beautiful, full-color art and photos help students visualize anatomical structures and physiological concepts for laboratory practice. The art program uses rich, vibrant colors; 3D realistic rendering; and includes brand-new cadaver and histology photos. Specially commissioned cadaver and histology photos help meet students’ needs and offer a wider variety of images for better understanding of anatomy.
  • Thorough, clearly written exercises help students comprehend and retain the material. Exercises include background information, objectives, step-by-step instructions, and integrated review sheets that can be used for pre-lab or post-lab review.

• A wide variety of laboratory exercises and activities meet the needs of virtually every 2- semester anatomy & physiology laboratory course. Activities include organ dissections for rat, cow, and sheep specimens, in addition to the full body dissections in the Cat and Pig versions of the lab manual, giving students a hands-on lab experience. Easy-to-recognize icons alert students to dissection activities, safety precautions, homeostatic imbalance sections, exercises that use BIOPAC® equipment, and corresponding PhysioEx™ Exercises.
  • Workbook-Style design condenses complex information into visual summary tables and streamlines background information. This approach provides more space for students to write and draw in their manual.

• Group Challenge activities create an active learning environment in the lab.
• Unique surface anatomy exercise includes superb photos for viewing muscle definition and clear surface landmarks for skeletal, muscular, and vascular structures.
• Terminology reflects the most recent information in Terminologia Anatomica and Terminologia Histologica.

Also available with Mastering A&P

Mastering™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and improves results for each student. Mastering A&P assignments support interactive features in the lab manual, including pre-lab video coaching activities, bone, muscle, and dissection videos, Dynamic Study Modules, Get Ready for A&P, plus a variety of Art Labeling Questions, Clinical Application Questions, and more. Learn more about Mastering A&P.

• NEW! 8 Pre-Lab Video Coaching Activities in Mastering A&P (for a total of 18) focus on key concepts in the lab activity and walk students through important procedures. New pre-lab video topics include Preparing and Observing a Wet Mount, Examining a Long Bone, Initiating Pupillary Reflexes, Palpating Superficial Pulse Points, Auscultating Heart Sounds, and more.
• NEW! Cat and Fetal Pig Dissection Video Coaching Activities help students prepare for dissection by previewing key anatomical structures. Each video includes 12 comparisons to human structures.
• IMPROVED! Practice Anatomy Lab™ (PAL™ 3.1) is now fully accessible on all mobile devices including smart phones, tablets and laptops. PAL is an indispensable virtual anatomy study and practice tool that gives students 24/7 access to the most widely used lab specimens including human cadaver, anatomical models from leading manufacturers such as 3B Scientific, SOMSO, Denoyer-Geppert, Frey Scientific/Nystrom, Altay Scientific, and Ward’s, histology, cat, and fetal pig. PAL 3.1 is easy to use and includes built-in audio pronunciations, rotatable bones and simulated fill-in-the-blank lab practical exams.
• NEW! Customizable Practice Anatomy Lab (PAL) Flashcards enable students to create a personalized, mobilefriendly deck of flashcards and quizzes using images from PAL 3.1. Students can generate flashcards using only the structures that their instructor emphasizes in lecture or lab.
• PAL 3.1 Test Bank in the Item Library includes over 6000 multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions.
• NEW! Building Vocabulary coaching activities are a fun way for students to learn word roots and A&P terminology while building and practicing important language skills.
• Dynamic Study Modules help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time. Students complete a set of questions and indicate their level of confidence in their answer. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently. These are available as graded assignments prior to class and are accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers.
  • NEW! Instructors can now remove questions from Dynamic Study Modules to better fit their course.
  • EXPANDED! The Lab Manual Mastering A&P course now offers over 3,000 Dynamic Study Module questions, shared with Marieb/Hoehn Human Anatomy & Physiology, 11th Edition.
• EXPANDED! Drag-and-Drop Art Labeling Questions allow students to assess their knowledge of terms and structures in the lab manual. Selected exercise review sheet labeling activities in the manual are now assignable.
• NEW! Pearson eText, optimized for mobile, seamlessly integrates videos and other rich media with the text andgives students access to their textbook anytime, anywhere. The Pearson eText is available with Mastering A&P when packaged with new books, or as an upgrade students can purchase online. The eText mobile app offers:

• • Offline access on most iOS and Android phones/tablets.
  • Accessibility (screen-reader ready)
  • Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode
  • Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search tools
  • Embedded videos for a more interactive learning experience

• PhysioEx™ 9.1 supplements or substitutes traditional wet labs safely and cost-effectively by providing easy-to-use laboratory simulations, now with input data variability (includes practice quizzes and printable review sheets).
• Pre-Lab Quizzes motivate students to read the prep material before coming to lab so they can focus on the activity during lab time. Post-Lab Questions add to the large bank of assessment questions for every lab exercise, and include wrong-answer feedback.
• Additional Coaching Activities include:
  • Bone and Dissection Video Coaching Activities review the major bones and organ dissections and are supported with assignable activities that include hints and specific wrong-answer feedback.
  • A&P Flix™ Coaching Activities offer stunning 3D visuals of core concepts with in-depth assessments to test student understanding. References to A&P Flix animations are referenced in the lab manual.
• Learning Catalytics^™ helps generate class discussion, customize lectures, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. Learning Catalytics acts as a student response tool that uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.
  • NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint^® deck to easily create slide questions.
  • 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.
• Get Ready for A&P, 3rd Edition quickly gets students up to speed with helpful study skills, math skills, anatomical terminology, basic chemistry, cell biology, and other basics of the human body. Each chapter of this hands-on workbook includes a pre-test, guided explanation, interactive quizzes and exercises, and end-of-chapter cumulative tests. The 3rd Edition includes enhanced study tools and assessments in Mastering A&P and 10 Video Tutors that feature author Lori Garrett walking students through key concepts in chemistry and cell biology.

Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what’s new in this edition.