Contemporary Human Geography is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-book, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

Achieve highlights include:

• Story Maps, powered by ArcGIS provide an interactive summary of each region using clickable maps with data, narrative, and images to highlight key ideas tied to the five geographic themes in the chapter. Pre-built Story Map Quizzes for each chapter are ready to assign in Achieve.
• Web Maps, powered by ArcGIS are part of the pre-built homework.  Students use zoom and search tools, a legend, basemaps, and layers to answer questions and deepen their regional understanding.
• Video Quizzes - each chapter includes a variety of brief videos to expand on topics and geographic themes covered in the chapters. Each video has three to five assessments, making it easy to assign videos and check students’ understanding.
• LearningCurve adaptive quizzing helps students prepare for class and drives them back to the text to reinforce their learning.
• Achieve expands upon the popular active and experiential learning activities found in the text.

Content features include:

Emphasis on Evidence-based Critical Thinking
Contemporary Human Geography presents its field as a dynamic academic pursuit based on observation and evidence, helping students develop informed ideas about geographic issues based on observation and scientific evidence.

Fascinating Contemporary Topics, including how Google maps works, refugees fleeing Syria, the Sudan, and Myanmar, barriers to the global movement of digital information, the purchasing of place names, driving while black, urban agriculture, and celebrities’ role in development.

New York Times Video Connection
Available and assignable in SaplingPlus, the text includes links to relevant New York Times videos, giving students a fresh way to observe and think about human geographic phenomena. Discussion questions accompany each Video Connection in addition to the questions in SaplingPlus.

Doing Geography Experiential Learning 
These activities at the end of each chapter put students in the role of a working geographer, giving them the information and resources they need to tackle a specific geographic exercise.

Doing Geography Active Learning
These new activities provide instructors with ways to engage students in the classroom. With 3-5 activities per chapter, instructors can choose what works best for their classroom. These are available in SaplingPlus as an instructor supplement.

Subject to Debate
This feature highlights a current controversy, asking students to think critically about both sides of the issue.

World Heritage Sites
These spectacular two-page features help students analyze the landscapes of some stunning UNESCO World Heritage Sites from a geographer’s point of view.

Geographers @ Work
These interviews offer firsthand accounts of the working lives of professional geographers—what they do, where they work, and how they apply their study of geography to their work.