Everything you need in one place

Pearson+

Pearson+ is available within your Mastering course. It gives you instant access to your course eTextbook and study tools, in one intuitive interface. Designed for students, by students, Pearson+ lets you choose how you learn best. You can listen to the audiobook, find what you need with enhanced search, and study your own way with notes and flashcards. The app lets you read where life takes you, no wi-fi needed.

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Before Class

Study better — and at your own pace

Dynamic Study Modules

Dynamic Study Modules use the latest developments in cognitive science to help you study course topics by adapting to your performance in real time.

As a result, you build the confidence needed to deepen understanding, participate meaningfully, and perform better — in and out of class.

Use your computer or the MyLab and Mastering app to access Dynamic Study Modules. Available for select titles.

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Before Class

Learn key concepts before class

Interactive Prelecture videos provide subject overviews for you to watch before class and help you prepare to participate in class discussions.

Interactive Prelecture Videos

Prepare for lecture using Prelecture Reading Questions and Quizzes

Get up to speed before you come to class with a variety of question types that reinforce important astronomy concepts, and help keep you on track. 

Prelecture Reading Questions and Quizzes

Visualize the universe with Narrated Figures and Visual Activities

Narrated Figures and Visual Activities bring figures in the text to life through narration and animation, and enhance understanding by correcting misconceptions. Visual Activities help build skills in interpreting visuals, while hints and specific wrong-answer feedback guide you to a deeper understanding of their significance in astronomy.

Narrated Figures and Visual Activities

During Class

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Make the most out of going to class

Learning Catalytics™

Learning Catalytics is an interactive classroom tool that lets you use your smartphone, tablet, or laptop to participate and stay engaged. Simply respond to the questions your instructor posts during class. Your professor can use the results of these questions to help address misunderstandings, start small group discussions, or decide that you’re ready to move on to a new idea. With Learning Catalytics, you can tell your professor what you did — or didn’t — understand without saying a word.

After Class

Use online tools for learning night sky, data collection

Virtual Astronomy Labs are online laboratory activities that utilize Stellarium and interactive figures to conduct night sky, data collection, and inquiry based labs.

Provide online tools for data collection.

Learn tough topics through a wide variety of tutorials  

Process of Science Tutorials, Self-Guided Tutorials, Ranking Tasks, and Sorting Tasks incorporate interactive questions and visuals to help you develop a deep understanding of the toughest topics and solidify your understanding of key astronomy concepts.

Wide Variety of Tutorials in Mastering Astronomy

Additional Features

Prepare for success

Chapter Quizzes and Practice Tests help you find out whether you're prepared for exams.

Wrong-answer feedback personalized for you

Using data gathered from all of the students using the program, Mastering offers wrong-answer feedback that is specific to you. Rather than simply providing feedback of the “right/wrong/try again” variety, Mastering guides you towards the correct final answer without giving the answer away.

Hints offer clear guidance

Mastering provides hints of two types that help you work through, and ultimately, solve problems. Declarative hints provide advice on how to approach the problem, guiding you to the final answer. Socratic hints break a problem down into smaller sub-problems, which makes it easier for you to complete the original problem.

Dynamic, engaging content

Using 3D animations, simulations, tutorials, and activities, Mastering utilizes engaging, interactive media to help you learn the toughest topics and succeed in your course.

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