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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Plan: Ethics and Physician Assisted Suicide
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: Career & Technical Ed, Health Science & Medical Technology, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis case study on physician-assisted suicide is used in a medical ethics course. The case itself is a short article published i...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Walk Through Mike's Code A Case Study in Software Technical Reviews
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Instructional Technology, Technology, Engineering & Design, Information Technology, Professional DevelopmentThis case introduces the concept of a software review. The central character, a programmer named Mike, thinks he and not his cod...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Raelians Visionary Science or Quackery?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Technology, Health Science & Medical Technology, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data AnalysisThe topics of human cloning and pseudoscience are introduced in this case through the story of Claude Vorilhon, a French auto ra...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhich Little Piggy Went to Market? Bioinformatics and Meat Science
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Technology, Health Science & Medical Technology, Life Sciences and 4 additional..In this case study, a scientist is contacted by a friend from a meat processing plant who is looking for a test to determine the...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDarwin's Finches and Natural Selection
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Evolution and Adaptation 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSaving Superman: Ethics and Stem Cell Research
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis case explores the political and ethical issues associated with stem cell research. Students read the case describing Christ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Case of Respiratory Distress
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Chemistry, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living ThingsThis clinical case study was developed to engage students by making connections between core concepts in chemistry and physiolog...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAccidental Drowning or Foul Play?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Public Services, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Chemistry, Current ScienceThis case was developed for use in the first semester of a sophomore organic chemistry laboratory to illustrate how a combinatio...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEcotourism: Who Benefits?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Economics, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science and 3 additional..In this case study, students assess ecotourism in Costa Rica by considering the viewpoints of a displaced landowner, banana plan...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBreathing Easy About New Air Pollution Standards
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, History-Social Science 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Klamath Basin Water Crisis Water Supply and Demand
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, History-Social Science 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 / HyperLinkAll That Glitters May Not Be Gold A Troublesome Case of Transgenic Rice
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Nutrition, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Technology and 7 additional..In this decision case, a congressional staffer must weigh a number of competing concerns and issues, including popular reactions...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Ecological Footprint Dilemma
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, History-Social 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 / HyperLinkThose Pesky Side-Reactions A Case Study on Ethics for Scientists and Engineers Developing Data in the Private Sector
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Engineering & Design, Chemistry, Professional DevelopmentThe characters in this dilemma case must balance personal financial considerations, their professional futures, and time constra...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCase of Maria A Cross-Cultural Study of the Therapeutic Relationship
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Sociology, Psychology, History-Social Science, Electives, Professional DevelopmentThis case illustrates concepts of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment within the context of a counseling relationship. Its prim...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTraining
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Instructional Technology, Evolution and Adaptation, Technology, Engineering & Design and 2 additional..One of our major areas of focus is training science faculty in the case method of teaching. We do this through a number of activ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Physiology of a Neurodegenerative Disease Huntington's Disease
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Cells, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology and 3 additional..In this case, a young woman learns that her uncle has been diagnosed with Huntington s disease. She talks with her fellow gradua...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYou Poured it Where? A Case Study in Invasive Species
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 4 additional..This case focuses on the invasive aquarium strain of Caulerpa taxifolia to introduce students to issues about invasive species. ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAre You Blue? What Can You Do? A Case Study on Treatment Options for Depression
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Psychology, History-Social Science, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Learning TheoriesThis case study introduces students to treatment alternatives for depression using a jigsaw method in which groups of students a...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Rose By Any Other Name The Peculiar Case of Pluto
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space ScienceThis dilemma case, developed for a general astronomy course, provides an introduction to our solar system by highlighting the pe...Views: 0Favorites: 0