Student Tools Student Text Heating and Cooling Essentials provides an easily understood introduction to the refrigeration, heating, and air conditioning field. The text is a practical blend of theory, on-the-job skills-building procedures, and customer service soft-skill training. Lab Workbook The lab workbook that accompanies Heating and Cooling Essentials includes instructor- created activities to help students recall, review, and apply concepts introduced in the book. TOOLS FOR STUDENT AND INSTRUCTOR SUCCESS Instructor Tools LMS Integration Integrate Goodheart-Willcox content within your Learning Management System for a seamless user experience for both you and your students. LMS-ready content in Common Cartridge® format facilitates single sign-on integration and gives you control of student enrollment and data. With a Common Cartridge integration, you can access the LMS features and tools you are accustomed to using and G-W course resources in one convenient location—your LMS. G-W Common Cartridge provides a complete learning package for you and your students. The included digital resources help your students remain engaged and learn effectively: ■ ■ eBook content. G-W Common Cartridge includes the textbook in an online, reflowable format. The eBook is interactive, with highlighting, magnification, note-taking, and text-to-speech features. ■ ■ Drill and Practice. Learning new vocabulary is critical to student success. These vocabulary activities, which are provided for all key terms in each chapter, provide an active, engaging, and effective way for students to learn the required terminology. ■ ■ Videos. Students can access professional videos that demonstrate important procedures in the text. These videos clarify steps and aid students in visualizing important skills. ■ ■■ Narrated animations. Ideal for visual learners, these short animations effectively illustrate key concepts from the book. ■ Activities. G-W Common Cartridge provides self-assessment drag-and-drop labeling activities that students can use to improve comprehension and understanding. ■ ■ Follow-the Heat® animations. More than 60 short, topical, visual lessons on knowledge and theory provide a different way for students to access and understand a concept. ■ ■ Troubleshooting activities. These 29 interactive activities develop applied, logical diagnostics and provide practice with common “tools of the trades” (such as digital multimeters). When you incorporate G-W content into your courses via Common Cartridge, you have the flexibility to customize and structure the content to meet the educational needs of your students. You may also choose to add your own content to the course. For instructors, the Common Cartridge includes the Online Instructor Resources. QTI® question banks are available within the Online Instructor Resources for import into your LMS. These prebuilt assessments help you measure student knowledge and track results in your LMS gradebook. Questions and tests can be customized to meet your assessment needs. viii