The Challenge of Democracy

Ancillary Descriptions

Instructor's Resource Manual with Test Bank
This comprehensive teacher resource helps teachers plan their daily lessons. It provides an overview of each chapter of the text, plus suggested lecture and discussion topics, additional background notes, questions for class discussion, student activities, and more. The test bank portion provides over 1,500 test questions in a variety of formats including multiple-choice, free response, and true/false exam questions referenced to each chapter of the textbook. The multiple-choice questions offer five possible answers, to reflect the format of the Advanced Placement examination.

Study Guide
This self-study aid includes learning objectives, chapter outlines and summaries, research topics and resources, research activities and assignments, and practice test questions in various formats (true/false, multiple-choice, sequence, identification, matching, and map exercises) for each chapter. This Guide helps students sharpen the critical-thinking and analysis skills that will be needed for success in the AP course, on AP examination, and in future studies.

Crosstabs Student Workbook
A workbook, which describes how to construct and interpret basic crosstabulations, suggestions of topics that students might study using data sets and explains how to write an empirical research paper.

Houghton Mifflin Guide to the Internet for Political Science
This brief guide can supplement any politics course and provides valuable information about conducting research on the Internet.

HM ClassPrep CD-ROM with HM Testing (CD-ROM)
This teaching tool provides course planning, lecture, and testing resources. The test component provides the same questions found in the printed Test Bank, but also allows teachers flexibility to add their own questions and to create virtually limitless variations. The CD also includes PowerPoint slides that instructors can use to enhance classroom presentations and/or to stimulate discussion.

Textbook Companion Web Site
The web site offers a variety of resources for students to reinforce and extend the textbook lessons, including ACE self-assessment quizzes, outlines, vocabulary exercises, and skill-building activities tied to maps and other illustrations from the text. There is a separate section for teachers, which provides the contents of the Instructor's Resource Guide, the testing program, and other teaching tools.

Overhead Transparencies
A set of 55 full-color transparency acetates of key illustrations from the student textbook.




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