Peter Castro,
California State Polytechnic University Michael E. Huber,
Global Coastal Strategies
ISBN: 0072852909 Copyright year: 2003
Ancillaries
ANCILLARIES
Instructor’s Manual
Prepared by Peter Castro, this helpful ancillary provides chapter outlines and summaries, a listing of audiovisual materials and software that complement each chapter, and answers to the Critical Thinking Questions within the text. Instructors will also find suggestions on how to present concepts to students and how to organize materials for class presentation. The Instructor’s Manual is available in the Online Learning Center, within the Instructor Resources, at www.mhhe.com/marinebiology (click on this book’s cover).
Test Item File
This user-friendly computerized testing software includes 470 multiple-choice questions and answers, sorted by chapter. The Test Item File is available as a CD-ROM, and is available free of charge to instructors using the textbook.
Digital Content Manager
Available through the Online Learning Center and on CD-ROM, instructors will have access to the Digital Content Manager (DCM). This multimedia collection of visual resources allows instructors to utilize artwork from the text in multiple formats to create customized classroom presentations, visually-based tests and quizzes, dynamic course website content, or attractive printed support materials. The digital assets on this cross-platform CD-ROM are grouped by chapter within easy-to-use folders. On the CD-ROM version of the Digital Content Manager, instructors will have access to 32 video segments from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, grouped by chapter to go with the fourth edition of this text. The Scripps video segments are also available on videotape.
Transparencies
A set of 75 full-color overhead transparencies of key illustrations from the text is available to instructors.
Laboratory Manual Laboratory and Field Investigations in Marine Life, 7th edition, by James L. Sumich and Gordon Dudley, is a manual written specifically for a one-semester course. Each of the fifteen laboratory exercises in this collection has been designed for approximately a 3-hour laboratory period. Suggested topics for further investigation are also incorporated into the exercises. A collection of field studies, as well as six informative appendices, can be found at the back of this manual.
Marine Biology Online Learning Center
This text-specific web site allows students and instructors from all over the world to communicate. Instructors can create a more interactive course with the integration of this site, and students will find many tools to help them improve their grades and learn that marine biology can be fun. Check out the Online Learning Center for this text at www.mhhe.com/marinebiology (just click on this book’s cover).
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