What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interestedand keeps them interestedin pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek. Seeking is what gets us out of bed in the morning, the engine that powers our actions, and the need that manifests as curiosity.

Part I: Understanding Motivation -- Chapter 1. The Challenge of Motivating Students -- Chapter 2. The Science of Motivation: The SEEKING System -- Part II: SEEKING in the Classroom: A Framework for Motivation -- Chapter 3. Exploratory Investigations: Level 1-- The Need to SEEK -- Chapter 4. Learning and Anticipation: Level 2-- SEEKING and Making Connections -- Chapter 5. Imagination and Synthesis: Level 3--Applying Higher Cognitive Processing -- Part III: Bringing It All Together: Engaging the SEEKING System -- Chapter 6. Leveraging the SEEKING System to Maximize Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance.