Eighteen instructor guides covering every chapter of the text plus two supplements. Each pairs an instructor narrative with a structured outline of causal chains, key distinctions, the misconceptions students arrive with or develop, and prediction prompts that test reasoning rather than recall. Free to anyone teaching physiology, whether or not you use the book.
Physiology is usually taught as a body of facts to be recalled. These guides are built on a different premise: that understanding is demonstrated by successful prediction, not by retrieval — and that if a student can follow the causal chain from stimulus to mechanism to effect, they can work out an answer they were never taught.
That is why each guide is organized around causal chains rather than topic outlines, why it names the misconceptions students actually arrive with, and why every section ends in a prediction prompt instead of a review question. The approach has a peer-reviewed basis in Advances in Physiology Education and is worked out at book length in Mechanisms and Logic in Human Physiology.
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