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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Case of a Tropical Disease and its Treatment Science, Society, and Economics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Economics, Cells, History-Social Science and 5 additional..This case study highlights the epidemiological and socioeconomic factors associated with a disease which plagues thousands of pe...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Question of Responsibility Whose Asbestos Caused Her Lung Disease?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Nature & Method of Science, Professional Development, Science and 8 additional..Most students are aware that asbestos is a health hazard, but don t know that asbestos refers to a variety of minerals with bo...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Haemophilus Vaccine A Victory for Immunologic Engineering
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Cells, History-Social Science, Health Science & Medical Technology 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 / HyperLinkDredge Today, Restore Tomorrow
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Engineering & Design, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science and 3 additional..In this case study, students role-play members of a task force whose task it is to advise the Director of the National Park Serv...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Healthy Retirement?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesNancy 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Evolution of Human Skin Color
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Cells, Evolution and Adaptation, Life SciencesIn 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 Great Patagonia Land Grab A Case Study in International Biodiversity, Conservation, and Environmental Politics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources 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 / HyperLinkUretero What? A Systems-Level View of a Pregnancy with Medical Complications
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Sociology 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 / HyperLinkCooking Under Pressure Applying the Ideal Gas Law in the Kitchen
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Nutrition, Technology, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe River Damned The Proposed Removal of the Lower Snake River Dams
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..In this dilemma case, Congresswoman Madeline Gibson must cast her vote on the fate of the lower Snake River dams. The stakeholde...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnergy Up, Weight Down? Finding Nutrition Information
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Nutrition, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 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 / HyperLinkConference Registration
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Instructional Technology, Professional Development, TechnologyRegistration information for the annual fall conference.Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEthanol or Biodiesel? A Systems Analysis Decision
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Engineering & Design, Economics and 7 additional..In this case study, two students have been asked to conduct a systems analysis study to determine whether ethanol derived from...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, Chemistry, Cells, Life SciencesThis 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 / HyperLinkAn Electrical Storm on the Horizon Can Technology Stimulate Reasoned Debate on Waste Containment
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Engineering & Design, Earth's Resources and 4 additional..In this fictional case study, the state of Oklahoma has profited by giving incentives for companies to build power plants in rur...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Rocky Mountain Locust Extinction and the American Experience
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Engineering & Design, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development and 4 additional..This case explores conservation and social issues associated with the destruction of vast tracts of farmland in the Great Plains...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrairie Garden of Troubles
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources and 3 additional..Developed for a general biology course for non-majors, this case focuses on prairie habitat ecology and restoration. Jim, a youn...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMDR Tuberculosis A Case Study for Non-Science Majors Focused on Social Justice Issues
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Evolution and Adaptation, History-Social Science, Health Science & Medical Technology and 3 additional..In this case study on multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis, students consider ways in which to preserve health as a human rig...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAbout Buffalo
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Instructional Technology, Professional Development, TechnologyFor people attending our fall conference or summer workshop, we've prepared a list of some of the many things to see and do in a...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Case of Cheating?
Grades: GraduateSubjects: Education Materials, Professional Development, Education Theory and Practice, Education, Child Development & Family Services, STEM EducationThis case is based upon a real experience. It is written as an exercise for faculty to discuss, perhaps in a brown bag seminar a...Views: 0Favorites: 0