Supplements

Physical Science is accompanied by a variety of multimedia supplementary materials, including an interactive website; an Instructor's Testing and Resource CD-ROM, with testing software containing multiple choice test items for the text and other teacher resources; and a Digital Content Manager CD-ROM, with digital images from the text. The supplement package also contains more traditional supplements: a laboratory manual and overhead transparencies.

Multimedia Supplementary Materials

Online Learning Center
A text-specific website, our Physical Science Online Learning Center, offering unlimited resources for both the student and instructor can be found at: www.mhhe.com/tillery/. By way of this website, students and instructors will be better able to quickly incorporate the Internet into their classroom. This interactive resource is packaged free with any new textbook.

Student Edition of the Online Learning Center
The Physical Science, Sixth Edition Online Learning Center has book-specific study aids organized by chapter. Each chapter includes animations modeling key concepts discussed in the book; interactive questions and problems, such as self-test quizzes and crossword puzzles, flashcards, and matching exercises using key terms and glossary definitions; chapter resources; and web-linked resources. Also included are Exploring Physical Science articles, which expose students to a different viewpoint on a topic or a new research project, as well as links to McGraw-Hill’s Access Science and PowerWeb sites, which provide additional research resources.

Instructor’s Edition of the Online Learning Center
For instructors, there is an image bank containing the images from the text, PowerPoint lectures, a bank of personal response system questions, the instructor’s manual, the instructor's edition of the laboratory manual, clip art, a database of equations, and much more. From the student edition, instructors can access questions and problems from the text and additional Closer Look questions with email boxes for gradeable responses from students.

The instructor's manual, also written by the text author, is housed on the Online Learning Center and provides a chapter outline, an introduction/summary of each chapter, suggestions for discussion and demonstrations, multiple choice questions (with answers) that can be used as resources for cooperative teaching, and answers and solutions to all end-of-chapter questions and exercises not provided in the text.

Instructor’s Testing and Resource CD-ROM
The Instructor's Testing and Resource CD-ROM contains the Physical Science test bank (test questions in a combination of true/false and multiple choice formats) within the Brownstone DIPLOMA© test generator. The Brownstone software includes a test generator, an online testing program, Internet testing, and a grade management system. This user-friendly software’s testing capability is consistently ranked number one in evaluations over other products. Also located on the Instructor’s Testing and Resources CD-ROM are Word and PDF files of the test bank, the instructor’s manual, instructor's edition of the laboratory manual, the bank of personal response system questions, and the quizzes from the Online Learning Center. Any of these Word files can be used in combination with the Brownstone software or independently.

Digital Content Manager CD-ROM
The Digital Content Manager contains jpeg files of the four-color illustrations, photos, and tables from the text as well as a collection of animations and video clips. The CD also contains a PowerPoint of the text images and another lecture PowerPoint. These digital assets are contained on a cross-platform CD-ROM and are grouped by chapter within a user-friendly interface. With the help of these valuable resources, instructors can create customized classroom presentations, visually based tests and quizzes, dynamic course website content, and attractive printed support materials.

Printed Supplementary Material

Laboratory Manual
The laboratory manual, written and classroom tested by the author, presents a selection of laboratory exercises specifically written for the interest and abilities of nonscience majors. There are laboratory exercises which require measurement, data analysis, and thinking in a more structured learning environment. Alternative exercises that are open-ended "Invitations to Inquiry" are provided for instructors who would like a less structured approach. When the laboratory manual is used with Physical Science, students will have an opportunity to master basic scientific principles and concepts, learn new problem solving and thinking skills, and understand the nature of scientific inquiry from the perspective of hands-on experiences. The instructor's edition of the laboratory manual can be found on the Physical Science Online Learning Center.

Overhead Transparencies
A set of over 100 full-color transparencies features images from the text. The images have been modified to ensure maximum readability in both small and large classroom settings.