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Miller & Levine Biology
The respected author team of Ken Miller and Joe Levine are back with a new edition to inspire students to interact with trusted and up-to-date biology content. Ken and Joe’s unique storytelling writing style is still present with even more focus on written and visual analogies. Engaging inquiry opportunities, checkpoints to ensure content mastery, and an increased correlation between print and digital products have been added to this edition to ensure you have everything you need for your classroom!

Foundations Series
A great option for low-level and inclusion classrooms, with digital support on Biology.com. Authors Ken Miller and Joe Levine deliver the same trusted, relevant content in more accessible ways! Written at a lower grade level with a reduced page count, the text offers additional embedded reading support to make biology come alive for struggling learners. Foundations for Learning reading strategies provide the tools to make content accessible for all your students.

Core Edition
A more concise textbook and a complete online program offer you a more environmentally friendly way to teach biology. The Core Edition, which covers the general high school biology curriculum, is supported by premium digital content on Biology.com PLUS—including author updates, online virtual labs, and the ability for students to create their own video clips. These ground-breaking online resources allow full flexibility of scope and sequence to meet your standards!

Biology.com
Biology.com serves as the dynamic digital component of the Miller & Levine Collection.
Biology.com (to support Miller & Levine Biology and Foundations Series: Miller & Levine Biology) offers a seamless transition from the textbook and offers complete online Student and Teacher’s Editions with audio, as well as editable worksheets, interactive study guides, games, and online remediations.

Biology.com PLUS
Supports the Core Edition: Miller & Levine Biology or as a stand-alone digital curriculum. PLUS offers the same robust content from Biology.com but also has added premium content, such as monthly Author Updates, Virtual Labs, and student multimedia projects to help you and your students go digital with the Miller & Levine Collection!

Serving as the digital offering of the entire program, Biology.com offers cutting-edge digital instruction with a seamless transition from the textbook. A complete Teacher Center allows instructors one easy-to-access forum to plan lessons, view an online Teacher’s Edition, edit worksheets and tests, assign homework, and assess and remediate with the classroom management and assessment tools.

The Student Center offers students an online forum in which they can access their entire Biology course. Students can view and complete assignments, master vocabulary and concepts with games and activities, prepare for testing with study guides, watch engaging videos, and complete online tests that include remediation.

In the Student Edition and Workbooks: Each chapter starts with a Big Idea Question that ties together with the main concept of the chapter. These Big Ideas pose direct questions that students will answer throughout the chapter in order to create a persistant learning-strategy strand that enables them to master the main concepts of the chapter.

Students are prompted at the beginning of the chapter with a Big Idea question, then are asked to apply the Big Idea concept to review questions in Lesson Assessments, and finally are asked to relate the Big Idea to their end-of-chapter review in their study guide, chapter assessment, and even in solving the Chapter Mystery.

In the textbook: Every chapter in the textbook begins with a highly-engaging Chapter Mystery that aligns to Big Idea of the chapter and concepts introduced in the lessons. Students are asked to read a real-world example of a mystery and follow clues throughout the chapter in an effort to solve the mystery.  . These Chapter Mysteries provide students with an opportunity to become science sleuths, while also mastering the Big Idea of each chapter.

Online at Biology.com: Students can also access the Chapter Mystery at Biology.com to view an introduction video, answer mystery clues, and finally solve the mystery. The Untamed Science video team further explores the mystery with a 3-5 minute video that further elaborates on real-world connections that relate to the concept introduced in the mystery.

Bringing a perfect blend of energy and scientific knowledge, the Untamed Science team bring concepts from the textbook into the wild!

This exciting new video team will have one video per chapter that will take concepts from the Chapter Mystery and further explore those concepts out in the field.

One 3-5 minute segment per chapter will engage students and bring a sense of adventure to the classroom. Never stop exploring your world with Untamed Science!

The Untamed Science Team

	Rob Nelson (aka Scuba -or- ScubaRob) Rob is the executive producer and principal director for The Wild Classroom and works to coordinate the podcasting efforts, world biomes site, flowering plant families pages and the invasive plants of the US.
	Suze Roots (aka Suze-Q) Suze is a plant biologist and one of our on-camera hosts. She is currently a M.S. student studying the tropical woody vines (lianas) of Panama. Whether in the tropics or the tundra, she can't get enough about plants!
	Hazen Audel (aka Crazy Hazen) Hazen Audel is the cofounder of Untamed Science with Rob Nelson. In many ways, Hazen is the epitome of being young at heart. When the crew travels to film our podcasts you can be assured that Hazen is probably missing from the shoot - off finding a critter to bring back and talk about. Its his boyish enthusiasm that we love the most.
	Jonas Stenstrom Jonas has been with us since the beginning... since that first trip to Mexico. Actually almost 10 years ago, it was Jonas and Rob, who in Australia studying Marine Biology, dreamed of traveling the world. This dream finally materialized in what we now call Untamed Science.

As part of chapter review, students can access numerous activities to help them master key chapter vocabulary on Biology.com

Vocabulary Games can be in one of three formats: a crossword puzzle, flashcards, or a match game. By completing these activities, students are able to assess their vocabulary knowledge in a fun and engaging way!

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One major difference visible at the level of the table of context is that the old phylogenetic survey chapters for animals have been eliminated. Those chapters have been replaced by completely new material in two places:

In the basal text, there are now two chapters that survey the entire Animal Kingdom: Chapter 26 entitles “Animal Evolution and Diversity” and Chapter 27, which covers structure/function themes across those groups.

At the end of the book, the biodiversity appendix presents a taxonomically-organized, highly visual introduction to the major groups of organisms, complete with up to date taxonomic referents.

Systematics updates: In order to bring the entire book into line with evolutionary classification as described in chapter 18, we have significantly revised our “master tree of life,” and subsequent taxonomic coverage of all organisms to reflect the most recent consensus thinking in cladistics. This update will prove invaluable to all students who plan to take any biology classes in college, because college level courses have already switched to cladistic classification. Importantly, we have accomplished this important updating while retaining references to the 6-Kingdom Linnean system that is still mentioned in many state standards.