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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLady Tasting Coffee A Case Study in Experimental Design
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Professional Development, MathematicsIn the 1920s, biologist and statistician Ronald Fisher met a woman who claimed she could taste whether a cup of tea was prepared...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Tale of Three Lice A Case Study on Phylogeny, Speciation, and Hominin Evolution
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Evolution and AdaptationThis clicker case explores the questions of when hominins lost their body hair and began wearing clothing by examining the sur...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrayer Study Science or Not?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Professional Development, Psychology, Life Sciences and 2 additional..In this case, students read a news article about a study of the effects of intercessory prayer on cardiac patients published in ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnergy Up, Weight Down? Finding Nutrition Information
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Nutrition, Life SciencesWhen Jill s roommate Nancy starts using a nutritional product to improve her energy and lose weight, Jill goes searching for inf...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHotel Information
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Instructional Technology, Technology, Professional DevelopmentHotel Information for the annual fall conference.Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMini Cases in Movement Disorders
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Learning Theories, History-Social Science, Psychology, Professional Development and 3 additional..This collection of six short cases focuses on brain areas and neurotransmitters involved in the control of movement. Students ar...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkI'm Looking Over a White-Striped Clover A Natural Selection Case
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Evolution and AdaptationThis case is an exploration of the process of natural selection using white clover (Trifolium repens) as an example. In general,...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe 'Wolfman' and the Chromosomal Basis of Heredity
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesThis clicker case tells the story of Danny Gomez, a Mexican circus performer, and his family in order to teach basic principle...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnyone Who Had a Heart A Case Study in Physiology
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living ThingsAfter undergoing a fertility procedure, a 37-year-old woman and her husband are expecting twins. The delivery goes smoothly, but...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShannon and Jake An Application of Medical Ethics Principles
Grades: GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Personal and Community Health, Professional Development, Health Science & Medical TechnologyThis case was developed to teach first-year medical students the basics of medical ethics. It describes a situation in which a f...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarch 7, 2017 The Day the Microprocessors Died
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Instructional Technology, Technology, Engineering & Design, Professional Development and 2 additional..The storyline of this case study describes a failure of a central system (much like the Internet of today) that occurs in the fu...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCooking Under Pressure Applying the Ideal Gas Law in the Kitchen
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Technology, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Professional Development, Chemistry and 5 additional..The Clarksons are making dinner for friends and decide to try out their new pressure cooker. As students read the dialogue that ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBad Fish: Human Anatomy and Physiology Edition
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Structure and Function in Living ThingsIn this version, developed for a course in human anatomy and physiology, the protagonist of the case, Dr. Westwood, survives an ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Mozart Effect A Psychological Research Methods Case
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Psychology, Professional DevelopmentIn this case study, students are given information regarding an advertisement claiming that listening to the classical music in ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Healthy Retirement?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesNancy has been looking forward to her retirement and a chance to entertain and travel with her husband Jim. But she hasn t been ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKate-tastrophy A Case Study in Brain Death
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Learning Theories, Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Psychology, Professional DevelopmentIn this interrupted case, students examine the concept of unconsciousness and develop an understanding of how clinicians diagnos...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Soccer Mom A Case Study on the Nervous System
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living ThingsPhyllis Jackson has fainted on the soccer field. She thinks she is just dehydrated, but her husband is worried. He has noticed t...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Case of Pharyngitis
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Career & Technical Ed, Professional Development, Health Science & Medical Technology, Life Sciences and 2 additional..Seven-year-old Jason Hornbuckle has been complaining for the past 12 hours of pain when he swallows. He also has a headache a...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkConversations with Fireflies A Case Study of Mimicry and Defense
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Life Sciences and 2 additional..This case explores the aggressive mimicry behavior of the femme fatale firefly - female fireflies in the genus Photuris that mim...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTraining Videos
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Instructional Technology, Technology, Professional DevelopmentThe National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science has produced two videos that demonstrate how to teach science in a meanin...Views: 0Favorites: 0