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Life-Span Development

John W. Santrock, University of Texas at Dallas
Anne MacKenzie-Rivers, George Brown College
Kwan Ho Leung, George Brown College
Thomas Malcomson, George Brown College

ISBN: 0070905738
Copyright year: 2003

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Instructor Resources

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Instructor’s Manual
This comprehensive manual has been fully adapted for Canada to provide a useful tool for both seasoned instructors and those new to the life-span development course. Each chapter includes a chapter outline, learning objectives, lecture suggestions, classroom activities, personal applications, research project ideas, suggested media resources, and handouts, among other features. The complete Instructor’s Manual is available for download at the Online Learning Centre in the Instructor's section.

Test Bank
The Test Bank has been extensively updated and adapted for Canada. It includes over 2,400 multiple-choice and short answer / brief essay questions for the text’s 21 chapters. Each multiple-choice item is classified as factual, conceptual, or applied, as defined by Benjamin Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives. Test items are also keyed to the learning objectives found in both the Instructor’s Manual and Student Study Guide.

Computerized Test Bank
The Test Bank is also available electronically in a Brownstone format that allows instructors to select, edit, and/or write their own questions, print exams, administer network-based tests, collect grades, compile curve averages, generate reports, print a complete copy of the Test Bank, and more.

Online Learning Centre
The Online Learning Centre not only provides the Instructor's Manual to download, but also provides hotlinks for the text’s marginal topical web links and for the Taking It to the Net exercises that appear at the end of every chapter, as well as a host of other resources for instructors.


Student Resources

Student Study Guide
The Study Guide has been completely adapted for Canadian students. Each chapter contains learning objectives, multiple-choice questions, matching quizzes, essay questions, vocabulary puzzles, research and Internet project ideas, and a list of relevant web sites to help students succeed in the life-span development course.

Online Learning Centre
Visit the Online Learning Centre to take multiple-choice chapter quizzes, hotlink to web sites associated with chapter material and “Taking It to the Net” exercises, and search the book glossary, among other features.

PowerWeb
This unique online tool provides premium content such as current articles, curriculum-based materials, weekly updates with assessment, informative and timely world news, refereed Web links, research tools, interactive exercises, and more. A PowerWeb access card is packaged for FREE with each new copy of the text! Visit www.dushkin.com/powerweb for a tour!

Multimedia Courseware for Child Development
This interactive set of two CD-ROMs brings the central concepts and classic experiments in child development to life with video footage and other integrated digital media. To preview the courseware, please visit www.mhhe.com/socscience/devel/patterson/index.html

Making the Grade CD-ROM
This CD-ROM gives students the opportunity to test their comprehension of the course material with a learning assessment questionnaire and approximately 25 interactive multiple-choice questions with feedback per chapter.

Guide to Life-Span Development for Future Nurses
These supplements help students apply the concepts of human development to nursing and education. They contain information, exercises, and sample tests that help students to understand human development from a professional perspective.

The AIDS Booklet
This booklet provides current facts about AIDS and HIV: what it is, how the virus is transmitted, its prevalence among various population groups, symptoms of HIV infection, strategies for prevention, etc. It also covers the legal, social, medical, and ethical issues related to AIDS and HIV.

Annual Editions: Human Development 03/04
This annually updated reader is a compilation of carefully selected articles from magazines, newspapers, and journals. Topics covered include genetic and parental influences on development, development during infancy and early childhood and many others.


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