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The Student Center area of this site has been designed to help Frank and Bernanke readers solidify their knowledge of course material by practicing its application. It provides quizzes, study tips, and exercises and is organized as follows:

Course-Wide Content
These are not chapter-specific, but will help you expand your general knowledge of concepts and improve skills; see the above pull-down menu.

• Interpreting the News consists of a series of article summaries with analysis and discussion questions.
• Career center provides a list of sources for jobs performed by economists.
• Economics on the Web provides a list of annotated URLs useful for anyone interested in economics.
• Discover Econ is an online homework management tool and student tutorial for Principles of Economics.
• Ask the Professor provides an opportunity to direct questions to our authors.
• Glossary provides definitions for all the key terms in the textbook.

eLearning Sessions
These are chapter-by-chapter elements; see the pull-down menu for specific chapters.

• The eLearning Sessions (eLS) are a comprehensive study aid that bolsters knowledge of chapter topics and then tests comprehension.
• After an Overview you can review Key terms and PowerPoints, complete an Economic Naturalist Exercise, work an Interactive Graphing Exercise, or use the Math Tutor.
• After using these study aids you can try a Quiz to see how much you know.

Quizzes
There is also a separate set of Flash Quizzes for each chapter.

Welcome to the Instructor Center

Access to DiscoverEcon is coming soon!

This site has been designed to help instructors more effectively use Frank/Bernanke's Principles of Economics, Third Edition, textbook. Access to the Instructor's Center is password protected to ensure that teachers alone can view the instructional materials available here. Please make your choices from the pull-down menu at the left.

• The Teaching Exchange offers Bob Frank's Lecture notes and PowerPoints, Paul Barkley's teaching notes, and Mary Lesser's Mankiw Conversion guide.
• Authors in the News provides periodic information about our authors.
• Instructor's Manual as a complete electronic version.
• PowerPoints provide illustrations and key points from the text (organized as splits).
• Overhead Transparencies provide all the graphs in the text.
• Dynamic Graphing Library offers 14 JAVA applets that can be used to assign graphing exercises.
• DiscoverEcon is an online homework management tool and student tutorial for Principles of Economics.
• Ask the Authors is the capacity to email Bob Frank and Ben Bernanke with queries and comments.
• Bergstrom/Miller Experiments provide some examples from the Bergstrom/Miller text, which offers a way to teach with experiments.
• Economics Is Everywhere is an excellent, modern reader that supplements and expands the topics in the Frank and Bernanke textbook.
• Course-Wide Content shows all the features that students have access to on the Student Edition part of the web site.