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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIs That Pill You're Taking Safe? A Case Study About the Drug Development Process
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesThis dilemma cased is based on the actual development, FDA approval, and market withdrawal of dexfenfluramine, a drug used in th...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIs Iron Fertilization Good for the Sea?
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Life Sciences and 4 additional..This case study describes experiments to seed the ocean with iron to encourage algae growth. It explores how human activities co...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: Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services, 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: 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, Personal and Community Health, Structure and Function in Living Things 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 / HyperLinkGlobal Climate Change: Impact and Remediation
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Life Sciences and 5 additional..This clicker case is a continuation of another case in our collection, Global Climate Change: Evidence and Causes, in which ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGiving Birth to Someone Else's Children? A Case of Disputed Maternity
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesMost students have heard about situations in which the paternity of a child is questioned, but maternity? This case was designed...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFishing for Answers in the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 4 additional..This clicker case addresses the eutrophication of aquatic systems caused by human activities. "Susan" is a biology student wor...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFecal Coliforms in Antarctica
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Cells, Life SciencesIn this interrupted case study, students explore the environmental consequences of Antarctic research as they design experiments...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFat Facts Comparing the Structure and Function of Lipids
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Chemistry, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Technology and 7 additional..It's Mother's Day and Dolly, a high school senior, is making a Mediterranean salad for her mom, who is a college chemistry major...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFacing the Pain An Interrupted Case Study in Physiology
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life SciencesThis interrupted case study in cardiovascular and nerve physiology focuses on Lynn, a married woman with a young child whose hus...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFace the Fats The Biochemistry of Lipids
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Cells, Chemistry, Human Anatomy & Physiology and 8 additional..This clicker case introduces students to the biochemistry of lipids through the story of Pete, a college student who begins to c...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEscape from Planet Soma Mastering the Physiological Principles of Neuronal Signaling
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional Development, Learning Theories, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life SciencesIn this case, students assume the role of a fictitious space explorer captured by aliens. To win their release, they must correc...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 / HyperLinkEating PCBs from Lake Ontario - The Clicker Version A Case on Science and the Media
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development and 7 additional..This is a clicker adaptation of another case in our collection, Eating PCBs from Lake Ontario: Is There an Effect or Not? (2...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDust to Dust The Carbon Cycle
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Ecology & Ecosystems, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 4 additional..Tom and his grandfather, a retired high school chemistry teacher, are talking about a National Geographic television documentary...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDr. Collins and the Case of the Mysterious Infection
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Personal and Community Health, Cells and 2 additional..In this case study, Dr. Collins must diagnose and prescribe treatment for a young patient with a serious infection. Students rec...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDo Corridors Have Value in Conservation?
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Life Sciences 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 / HyperLinkDem Bones Forensic Resurrection of a Skeleton
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Public Services, Life Sciences, Structure and Function in Living Things and 4 additional..In this case study, a forensic anthropologist must determine the age and sex as well as look for signs of trauma to a skeleton f...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDecoding the Flu
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Personal and Community Health, Life Sciences, Health Science & Medical Technology and 3 additional..This "clicker case" was designed to develop students' ability to read and interpret information stored in DNA. Making use of per...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDarwin's Finches and Natural Selection
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 4 additional..In this "clicker case," students learn about natural selection through the research of Peter and Rosemary Grant and colleagues o...Views: 0Favorites: 0