Supplementary Materials

Rich supplementary materials are available for students and instructors to assist learning and course management.

For the Student

1. A Student Study Guide by Linda Sherwood of Montana State University is a valuable resource that provides learning objectives, study outlines, learning activities, and self-testing material to help students master course content.

2. The third edition of Microbes in Motion by Gloria Delisle and Lewis Tomaltyis an interactive CD-ROM that brings microbiology to life. A correlation guide on the CD links this exciting resource directly to your textbook. This easy to use tutorial can go from the classroom to the resource center to students’ own personal computers. Microbes in Motion brings discovery back into the learning and education process through interactive screens, animations, video, audio, and hyperlinking questions. The applications of this CD-ROM are only as limited as your good ideas.

3. The second edition of Hyperclinic by Lewis Tomalty and Gloria Delisleis packed with over 100 case studies and over 200 pathogens supported with audio, video and interactive screens. Students will have fun and gain confidence as they learn valuable concepts and gain practical experience in clinical microbiology.

4. The fifth edition of Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology by John P. Harley and Lansing M. Prescott, has been prepared to accompany the text. Like the text, the laboratory manual provides a balanced introduction to laboratory techniques and principles that are important in each area of microbiology. The class-tested exercises are modular and short so that an instructor can easily choose only those exercises that fit his or her course. The fifth edition contains recipes for all reagents and media. New exercises in biotechnology have been added to this edition. A new appendix provides practice in solving dilution problems.

5. A set of 305 Microbiology Study Cards prepared by Kent M. Van De Graaff, F. Brent Johnson, Brigham Young University, and Christopher H. Creek features complete descriptions of terms, clearly labeled drawings, clinical information on diseases, and much more.

For the Instructor

1. A Testing CD is offered free on request to adopters of the text. This cross-platform CD provides a database of over 2500 objective questions for preparing exams and a grade-recording program.

2. A set of 250 full-color acetate transparencies is available to supplement classroom lectures. These have been enhanced for projection and are available to adopters of the fifth edition.

3. The Visual Resource Library CD-ROM contains virtually all of the images from the Microbiology, Fifth Edition as well as the tables that appear in the text. This presentation software allows you to create your own multimedia presentations or export images into other programs. Images may be sorted by a number of criteria. Features include an Interactive Slide Show and a Slide Editor.

4. A set of 50 Projection Slides provides clinical examples of diseases and pathogens to supplement the illustrations in the text.

5. Your McGraw-Hill representative may arrange a Customized Laboratory Manual combining your own material with exercises from Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology, Fifth Edition by John Harley and Lansing Prescott. Contact your McGraw-Hill representative for details about this custom publishing service.

6. Designed specifically to help you with your individual course needs, PageOut, PageOut Lite, and McGraw-Hill Course Solutions will assist you in integrating your syllabus with thefifth edition’s state-of-the-art media tools. Create your own course-specific web page supported by McGraw-Hill’s extensive electronic resources, set up a class message board or chat room online, provide online testing opportunities for your students, and more!

Online Resources

Through the Prescott 2002 Online Learning Center, everything you need for effective, interactive teaching and learning is at your fingertips. Moreover, this vast McGraw-Hill resource is easily loaded into course management systems such as WebCT or Blackboard. Through the Online Learning Center, you will also link to McGraw-Hill's new Biocourse.com site with a huge dynamic array of resources to supplement your learning experience in microbiology.

Some of the online features you will find to support your use of Microbiology by Prescott, Harley and Klein include:

For the Student:

• Additional multiple choice questions in a self-quizzing interactive format
• Electronic flashcards to review key vocabulary
• Study Outlines
• Web Links and Exercises
• Clinical Case Studies
• An Interactive Time Line detailing events and highlighting personalities critical to the development of microbiology
• Study Tips
• Student Tutorial Service

For the Instructor:

• A complete Instructor's Manual containing chapter overviews and objectives, chapter resource guides, correlation guides, and more.
• A comprehensive Test Item File written by David Mullin of Tulane University, is available through PageOut. The Test Item File containing over 2500 questions, and password protected, provides a powerful instructional tool
• The Laboratory Resource Guide provides answers to all exercises in Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology, Fifth Edition by John Harley and Lansing Prescott.
• All images and tables from the text in an downloadable format for classroom presentation
• Correlation guides for use of all resources available with the text and to the ASM Guidelines
• Answers to Critical Thinking Questions in the text
• Web Links to active microbiology sites and to other sites with teaching resources
• A Course Consultant to answer your specific questions about using McGraw-Hill resources with your syllabus