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Lady Tasting Coffee A Case Study in Experimental Design
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Professional Development, Mathematics, Life SciencesIn the 1920s, biologist and statistician Ronald Fisher met a woman who claimed she could taste whether a cup of tea was prepared...Views: 0Favorites: 0A Tale of Three Lice A Case Study on Phylogeny, Speciation, and Hominin Evolution
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, 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: 0Prayer Study Science or Not?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, Electives, Sociology 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: 0Energy Up, Weight Down? Finding Nutrition Information
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, 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: 0Hotel Information
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Technology, Instructional Technology, Professional DevelopmentHotel Information for the annual fall conference.Views: 0Favorites: 0Mini Cases in Movement Disorders
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Learning Theories, Professional Development, History-Social Science, Structure and Function in Living Things 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: 0I'm Looking Over a White-Striped Clover A Natural Selection Case
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional Development, Life Sciences, 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: 0The 'Wolfman' and the Chromosomal Basis of Heredity
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis clicker case tells the story of Danny Gomez, a Mexican circus performer, and his family in order to teach basic principle...Views: 0Favorites: 0Anyone Who Had a Heart A Case Study in Physiology
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, Life SciencesAfter undergoing a fertility procedure, a 37-year-old woman and her husband are expecting twins. The delivery goes smoothly, but...Views: 0Favorites: 0Shannon and Jake An Application of Medical Ethics Principles
Grades: GraduateSubjects: Personal and Community Health, Health Science & Medical Technology, Professional Development, History-Social Science, Life SciencesThis case was developed to teach first-year medical students the basics of medical ethics. It describes a situation in which a f...Views: 0Favorites: 0March 7, 2017 The Day the Microprocessors Died
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Instructional Technology, Professional Development, Physics, Technology 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: 0Cooking Under Pressure Applying the Ideal Gas Law in the Kitchen
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Professional Development, Chemistry, Technology 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: 0Bad Fish: Human Anatomy and Physiology Edition
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, Life SciencesIn this version, developed for a course in human anatomy and physiology, the protagonist of the case, Dr. Westwood, survives an ...Views: 0Favorites: 0The Mozart Effect A Psychological Research Methods Case
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, PsychologyIn this case study, students are given information regarding an advertisement claiming that listening to the classical music in ...Views: 0Favorites: 0A Healthy Retirement?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentNancy 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: 0Kate-tastrophy A Case Study in Brain Death
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Learning Theories, Professional Development, Life Sciences, History-Social Science, PsychologyIn this interrupted case, students examine the concept of unconsciousness and develop an understanding of how clinicians diagnos...Views: 0Favorites: 0The Soccer Mom A Case Study on the Nervous System
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, Life SciencesPhyllis Jackson has fainted on the soccer field. She thinks she is just dehydrated, but her husband is worried. He has noticed t...Views: 0Favorites: 0A Case of Pharyngitis
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Professional Development, Career & Technical Ed, Structure and Function in Living Things 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: 0Conversations with Fireflies A Case Study of Mimicry and Defense
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources 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: 0Training Videos
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Technology, Instructional 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