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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkImmunological Malfunction?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living ThingsThis case study was developed to complement the study of the immune system and to emphasize the crosstalk that occurs at the cel...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDo Corridors Have Value in Conservation?
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Agriculture & Natural Resources, History-Social Science and 4 additional..This case study discusses conservation corridors as a means to reduce the problems of population size and isolation in a fragmen...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIs a Mars Sample Return Mission Too Risky? A Public Hearing Case Study
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentFollowing a public hearing format, this case study allows students to explore the scientific and public policy issues surroundin...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSometimes Less is Better The Treatment of Thromboembolism
Grades: GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living ThingsEd Cramer is a 47-year-old mechanical engineer who is being treated for venous thromboembolism. He was 45 when he first develo...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Evolution of Human Skin Color
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Cells, Evolution and AdaptationIn this case study, the evolution of human skin color is used as a means of exploring the process of evolution by natural select...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Headache to Die For A Case Study in Forensic Science
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Public Services, Current ScienceThis case, based on an actual case of product tampering that occurred in Seattle in 1986, was designed for use in an introductor...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Case of the Dividing Cell Mitosis and Meiosis in the Cellular Court
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, CellsThe Honorable Judge Cellular is presiding over the case of The State vs.Egg Cell Number 6624223. As the prosecuting attorney cal...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Case of the Missing Bees High Fructose Corn Syrup and Colony Collapse Disorder
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Nature & Method of Science, Chemistry, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Nutrition and 8 additional..Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has claimed approximately one-third of the commercial honeybee population in recent years. A numb...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkI Can Quit Anytime I Want The Biological Basis of Euphoria and Addiction
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Learning Theories, Human Anatomy & Physiology and 4 additional..This clicker case explores the biological basis for the temporary euphoria that accompanies drug use as well as certain aspect...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCancel the Cardinals Home Opener?!? Lessons in Melting and Evaporation
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth's ResourcesThe St. Louis Cardinals are scheduled to play their home opener the next day and Megan Riley, a young meteorologist who works fo...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAIDS and the Duesberg Phenomenon
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesRenowned virologist and member of the prestigious National Academy of Science, Peter Duesberg has argued that AIDS is not caused...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSummer Workshop
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional Technology, TechnologySponsored by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, this five-day workshop focuses on training science faculty ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMom Always Liked You Best Examining the Hypothesis of Parental Favoritism
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems and 3 additional..This interrupted case study is based on a journal article on the parenting behavior of American coots. Working through the case,...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Do We Tell the Sheriff? Determining Minimum Numbers of Individuals (MNI) for a Scatter of Human Bones
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Humanities, Professional Development, Public Services, Current Science, History-Social ScienceStudents explore the issues involved in investigating and reporting on a scatter of skeletal remains to the police in this case ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSeven Skeletons and a Mystery
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Evolution and Adaptation, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesThis problem-based learning case uses Archaeopteryx, the most famous fossil in the world, to show the vital role that fossils pl...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMother's Milk Cures Cancer? Researchers Deliberate Over Whether to Publish
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Cells, ChemistryThis case study on the immune system, cell cycle regulation, and cancer biology explores the role that serendipity plays in new ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUretero What? A Systems-Level View of a Pregnancy with Medical Complications
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Electives, Professional Development, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology and 5 additional..This case study follows a woman faced with a series of difficult medical decisions. Students apply systems-level physiology as t...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSplit My Brain A Case Study of Seizure Disorder and Brain Function
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Learning Theories, Human Anatomy & Physiology and 3 additional..This case study involves a couple deciding whether or not their son should undergo brain surgery to treat a severe seizure disor...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe 2000-Meter Row: A Case Study in Performance Anxiety
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Sports and Competition, Life Sciences, Psychology, History-Social ScienceThis case study is based on another case in our collection, The 2000-Meter Row: A Case in Homeostasis, which emphasizes the meta...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLost in the Desert!
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living ThingsStudents learn about the interconnectedness of the body, with a particular focus on the skin as one of the most important homeos...Views: 0Favorites: 0