Trail Guide to the Body - Your Best Choice for Learning Palpatory and Anatomy Skills

  

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Complimentary Instructor Tools

The following Trail Guide to the Body instructor tools are complimentary when you require the Trail Guide to the Body textbook in your program. If you need assistance with any of these tools, please contact our Customer Service at 800-775-9227 or info@booksofdiscovery.com.

 

  TGB Instructor Field Guide

Instructor's Field Guide – Whether you are a new or experienced instructor looking for fresh ideas, or are just becoming familiar with Trail Guide, this will be an invaluable resource.

It contains general tips for palpation, starter questions, activities of daily living as related to the muscle in question and teaching activities that can be incorporated into your lesson plans. In addition, assessment skills are included that can be used both inside and outside of the classroom.

 

  TGB

Backpack CDContains more than 400 pages of classroom activities, tests, quizzes, word finds and crossword puzzles based on Trail Guide to the Body.

  Trail Guide Image Library

Image Library – You can now download up to 50 images from the 600+ Trail Guide to the Body Image Library for use in PowerPoint presentations or course management systems such as Blackboard or Moodle.


Curriculum
- Ready for some interesting new ideas for teaching with Trail Guide to the Body? Highly acclaimed educators Clint Chandler and Rob Killam, and educational consultant Steve Schenkman have developed an effective and creative complimentary curricula based on the Trail Guide to the Body textbook.

They are available in 40-hour (sample here) and 60-hour (sample here).  The curricula can serve as complete templates or provide some new, engaging approaches.

40-hour curriculum: This curriculum focuses on kinesiology through the use of resistance bands. It allows students to take an active role in the learning process by kinesthetically exploring the musculoskeletal system using movement and palpation.

60-hour curriculum: Our flexible, easy-to-modify 60-hour Anatomy of Human Muscles & Palpation curriculum, with 15 individual class lesson plans, integrates all of Books of Discovery's state-of-the-art resources, making it a holistic, multi-media, quick-learning and easy-to-understand experience. This curriculum also includes a syllabus.

More Trail Guide Instructor Tools

Trail Guide to the Body DVD

DVD – Have your students practice their skills at home or review the in-class with the Trail Guide to the Body DVD. Great for visual and kinesthetic learners.


Retail Price: $21.95 / $17.56 if you order 1-9 copies, $15.37 if you order 10 or more.

 

  Trail Guide PowerPoint


PowerPoint
– With 500 slides and more than 900 illustrations, it contains nearly every anatomy and palpation illustration from the textbook as well as AOIN information.

Retail price - $149.95 / Your price if you require Trail Guide - $74.98

TGB Overhead Packet


Overhead Packet
This packet contains 234 pages with nearly 750 illustrations from Trail Guide to the Body.

Retail price - $149.95 / Your price if you require Trail Guide - $89.97

  Audiofile

AudiofileTrail Guide to the Body author Andrew Biel narrates this three-hour series that explores the body’s 100 major muscles. The audiofile follows the seven chapters in the book and includes the introduction to the muscle, AOIN information and step-by-step instructions for palpating each muscle.  Great for auditory learner and to assign as homework.


Retail price - $9.95 / Complimentary with the Trail Guide Trio

Tools for Hearing- or Visually-Challenged Students

  • Trail Guide to the Body Audiofile
  • Trail Guide to the Body textbook in .pdf format (contact us to request this product)
  • For a full digital audio version contact Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic at (866) 732-3585. The CD’s are only on loan and a doctor’s note is required.

Foreign Language Versions of Trail Guide to the Body

  • Japanese language: Trail Guide to the Body textbook, Student Handbook and Trail Guide to the Body DVD. A Japanese language interview with author Andrew Biel can be read by clicking here.
  • Korean language: Trail Guide to the Body textbook and Trail Guide to the Body Student Handbook
  • NEW! Spanish language version of the Trail Guide to the Body textbook. It is available on our website or by visiting the European publisher of this edition.


    The distributors of these versions can be found here.