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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 / HyperLinkThe Missing Link
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Life Sciences, Earth's Resources, Human Anatomy & Physiology and 5 additional..The setting for this case study is a paleontological dig in East Africa, where Sam, an American undergraduate student, has une...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe "Living" Room A Case Study in Artificial Intelligence, Collaborative Systems, and Language Understanding
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Science, Life Sciences, Biochemistry and 4 additional..This case study analyzes the reasoning processes and types of information that we need to embed in collaborative software system...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Klamath Basin Water Crisis Water Supply and Demand
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development and 2 additional..In this case study, students examine global water shortage problems in the context of the current Klamath Basin water crisis. Tw...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Irresistible Costs of Impressing Others Managing Impressions and Regulating Behavior
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Sociology, Electives, Professional Development, PsychologyRecent research indicates that people who boast to friends and those who are modest to strangers are less able to regulate their...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Ice Hockey Injury An Interrupted Case Study
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Sports and Competition, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional DevelopmentThe high school ice hockey team is playing the last of three games in one day. The game gets rough and Rick, the star player, is...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Hot Tub Mystery
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional DevelopmentRoma and Clint Underhill are relaxing after a stressful day in their hot tub with some wine. But tragedy strikes, and the next m...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Haemophilus Vaccine A Victory for Immunologic Engineering
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Life Sciences, Career & Technical Ed, Cells and 3 additional..This case study focuses on a young mother whose child attends a day care center where there has been an outbreak of bacterial me...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Great Patagonia Land Grab A Case Study in International Biodiversity, Conservation, and Environmental Politics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development and 2 additional..This PowerPoint case (~2.4 MB) was developed for an undergraduate, non-majors course in conservation biology. It explores the co...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Galapagos
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Life Sciences, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science and 4 additional..Using problem-based learning and role-playing, students analyze the geological origins of the Galapagos Islands, their colonizat...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Fate and Transport of Toxic Releases A GIS Case Study
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, History-Social Science, Life Sciences, Biochemistry and 9 additional..The release of toxins into the environment and the federal government's tracking of that using the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Evolution of Human Skin Color
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Cells, Evolution and Adaptation, Professional DevelopmentIn 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 / HyperLinkThe Effects of Coyote Removal in Texas A Case Study in Conservation Biology
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Career & Technical Ed, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science and 3 additional..This interrupted case study presents published data on the effect of coyote removal in Texas. It was designed to help students i...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Ecological Footprint Dilemma
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Life Sciences, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science and 3 additional..Is it better to have a new parking lot on campus or use that space to develop a community garden? This is the issue presented in...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Deforestation of the Amazon A Case Study in Understanding Ecosystems and Their Value
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Life Sciences, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science and 5 additional..In this case study, students examine tropical deforestation in the Amazon from the perspective of three dominant stakeholders in...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Death of Baby Pierre A Genetic Mystery
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Evolution and Adaptation, Professional DevelopmentThis directed case study on a genetic disorder was developed for an exam on genetics for a general biology course. The case is ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Dead Zone Ecology and Oceanography in the Gulf of Mexico
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Life Sciences, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science and 4 additional..This interrupted case study focuses on the seasonal hypoxic area in the Gulf of Mexico known as the Dead Zone. It follows Sue, a...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Dating Game A Case Study in Human Evolution
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Life Sciences, Earth's Resources, Humanities and 3 additional..In this role-playing case study, students attempt to determine the identity of a variety of human fossils based on characteristi...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Coelacanth: An Odd Fish
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Evolution and Adaptation, Professional DevelopmentThis "clicker case" is a redesign of a case, also in our collection, by Robert H. Grant titled "A Strange Fish Indeed: The 'Disc...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Chemistry of Curcumin The Health-Promoting Ingredient in Tumeric
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Professional Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 2 additional..This case study was developed to engage students by making connections between core concepts in organic chemistry and the health...Views: 0Favorites: 0