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Coffee and Cigarettes Second-Hand Smoke and Smoke-Free Laws
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Personal and Community Health, Professional Development, History-Social Science, Health Science & Medical Technology, Life SciencesThis analysis case explores second-hand smoke and its impact on the decision to institute a smoking ban in the outdoor seating a...Views: 0Favorites: 0Clyde F. Herreid
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Technology, Professional Development, Instructional TechnologyDirector, National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Biological Science...Views: 0Favorites: 0Closing the Gap Antiretroviral Therapy for the Developing World
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Health Science & Medical Technology, Personal and Community Health, Professional Development and 2 additional..In this problem-based learning/role playing case, students apply their knowledge of the biology of HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral t...Views: 0Favorites: 0Classification Scheme
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Technology, Professional Development, Instructional TechnologyThere are many different types of cases and many different ways to teach them. We have developed a classification scheme of case...Views: 0Favorites: 0Chimpanzee Droppings Lead Scientists to Evolutionary Discovery
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Evolution and Adaptation, History-Social Science, Health Science & Medical Technology, Science and 4 additional..This interrupted case study focuses on the research of Dr. Beatrice Hahn, who investigates DNA sequences in chimpanzee droppings...Views: 0Favorites: 0Childbed Fever A Nineteenth-Century Mystery
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Personal and Community Health, Professional Development, History-Social Science, Health Science & Medical Technology, Life SciencesThis case describes the pioneering work of Ignaz Semmelweis and his efforts to remedy the problem of childbed fever in mid-19th ...Views: 0Favorites: 0Chemical Eric Dealing with the Disintegration of Central Control
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, Life SciencesThis case study is designed to teach introductory biology majors about the role of the pituitary in controlling hormones. It cou...Views: 0Favorites: 0Certified Cultured Beef Raising Beef Without the Cow?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Technology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Health Science & Medical Technology, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis and 4 additional..In this case study, students are introduced to concepts and techniques in modern biotechnology, as well as the possible implicat...Views: 0Favorites: 0Cell Phone Use and Cancer A Case Study to Explore the Scientific Method
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Personal and Community Health, Professional Development, History-Social Science, Health Science & Medical Technology, Life SciencesIn this case study, students analyze a scientific study, first by analyzing news articles reporting on the research and then by ...Views: 0Favorites: 0Case of Maria A Cross-Cultural Study of the Therapeutic Relationship
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Sociology, Psychology, History-Social Science, ElectivesThis case illustrates concepts of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment within the context of a counseling relationship. Its prim...Views: 0Favorites: 0Cancel the Cardinals Home Opener?!? Lessons in Melting and Evaporation
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space ScienceThe St. Louis Cardinals are scheduled to play their home opener the next day and Megan Riley, a young meteorologist who works fo...Views: 0Favorites: 0Can Suminoe Oysters Save Chesapeake Bay?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Geography, Earth's Resources, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science and 3 additional..This dilemma case explores the controversy over introducing non-native oysters to the Chesapeake Bay as a means of improving its...Views: 0Favorites: 0But It's Just a Bottle of Water
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth's Resources, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development and 2 additional..Bottled water, popular among students, is big business even though issues surrounding it related to health and safety as well as...Views: 0Favorites: 0But I'm Too Young! A Case Study of Ovarian Cancer
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Cells, Life SciencesIn this ???????clicker case, students are introduced to Abby, a college student who has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. As ...Views: 0Favorites: 0Burning Down the House A Case Study in Forensic Instrumental Analysis
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Chemistry, Public Services, Professional Development, Current ScienceIn this lab-based case, arson investigator Marie Stanforth comes under suspicion when her ex-husband dies in a fire. Students ...Views: 0Favorites: 0Bringing Back Baby Jason To Clone or Not to Clone
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Technology, Health Science & Medical Technology, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Science and 4 additional..This dilemma case, designed for use in an undergraduate genetics course, explores the basic genetic concepts underlying the clon...Views: 0Favorites: 0Breathing Easy About New Air Pollution Standards
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth's Resources, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development and 2 additional..A town meeting is the backdrop for a role-playing case about ground-level ozone air pollution. The case consists of a flier and ...Views: 0Favorites: 0Breast Cancer Risk Using Real Medical Histories to Rank Genetic and Environmental Influences
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Chemistry, Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Health Science & Medical Technology and 3 additional..This case study takes a combined directed and discussion approach to explore risk factors for breast cancer. After a preparatory...Views: 0Favorites: 0Blake's Illness A Case of "Wildlife Management"
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Cells, Health Science & Medical Technology, Life SciencesBlake is sick. With his background in the sciences and a little help from the Internet, he should be able to do a self-diagnosis...Views: 0Favorites: 0Biological Terrorism The Anthrax Scare of 2001
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Chemistry, History-Social Science, Health Science & Medical Technology, Personal and Community Health and 3 additional..In the weeks following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, anthrax-laced envel...Views: 0Favorites: 0