SUPPLEMENTS FOR THE INSTRUCTOR

McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager Plus™: McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager Plus is a complete, Web-based solution that includes and expands upon the actual problem sets found at the end of each chapter. It features enhanced technology that provides a varied supply of auto-graded assignments and graphing exercises, tied to the learning objectives in the book. McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager can be used for student practice, graded homework assignments, and formal examinations; the results are easily integrated with your course management system, including WebCT and Blackboard.

Instructor’s Manual: Prepared by Louis D. Johnston of the College of Saint Benedict | Saint John’s University, this expanded manual will be extremely useful for all teachers. In addition to such general topics as Using the Web Site, Economic Education Resources, and Innovative Ideas, there will be for each chapter: An Overview, Core Principles, Important Concepts Covered, Teaching Objectives, Teaching Tips/Student Stumbling Blocks, More Economic Naturalists, In-Class and Web Activities, Annotated Chapter Outline, Answers to Textbook Problems, Sample Homework, and a Sample Reading Quiz.

Test Bank: Prepared by Kate Krause of the University of New Mexico, this manual contains more than 2,000 questions categorized by chapter Learning Objectives, AACSB learning categories, and Bloom’s Taxonomy Objectives. The test bank is available in the latest EZ Test test-generating software, ensuring maximum flexibility in test preparation.

PowerPoints: Prepared by Carol Swartz of the University of North Carolina–Charlotte, these slides contain a detailed, chapter-by-chapter review of the important ideas presented in the textbook, accompanied by animated graphs and slide notes.

Customizable Micro Lecture Notes and PowerPoints: One of the biggest hurdles to an instructor considering changing textbooks is the prospect of having to prepare new lecture notes and slides. For the microeconomics chapters, this hurdle no longer exists. A full set of lecture notes for principles of microeconomics, prepared by Bob Frank for his award-winning introductory microeconomics course at Cornell University, is available as Microsoft Word files that instructors are welcome to customize as they see fit. The challenge for any instructor is to reinforce the lessons of the text in lectures without generating student unrest by merely repeating what’s in the book. These lecture notes address that challenge by constructing examples that run parallel to those presented in the book, yet are different from them in interesting contextual ways. Also available is a complete set of richly illustrated PowerPoint files to accompany these lecture notes. Instructors are also welcome to customize these files as they wish.

Instructor’s CD-ROM: This remarkable Windows software program contains the complete Instructor’s Manual with solutions to the end-of-chapter problems, Solman Videos, Computerized Test Bank, PowerPoints, and the complete collection of art from the text.

Online Learning Center (www.mhhe.com/fbbrief1e): The contents of the IRCD are available online at the textbook’s Web site for quick download and convenient access for professors.

SUPPLEMENTS FOR THE STUDENT

Study Guide: Revised by Louis D. Johnson of the College of Saint Benedict | Saint John’s University, this book contains for each chapter a pre-test; a “Key Point Review” that integrates the learning objectives with the chapter content; a self-test with matching and multiple-choice problems; short-answer problems; and an Economic Naturalist case study that helps students apply what they learned.

Online Learning Center (www.mhhe.com/fbbrief1e): For students there are such useful features as the Glossary from the textbook, Graphing Exercises, a set of study, PowerPoints, and practice quizzes.

Premium Content: The Online Learning Center now offers students the opportunity to purchase premium content. Like an electronic study guide, the OLC Premium Content enables students to take self-grading quizzes for each chapter as well as to download Frank and Bernanke-exclusive iPod content including podcasts by Brad Schiller, narrated lecture slides, and Paul Solman videos—all accessible through the student’s MP3 device. In the chapter, when you see an iPod icon, there is a podcast that correlates to that material. The label EN stands for Economic Naturalist, and the number represents the chapter number.