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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmanda's Absence Should Vioxx Be Kept Off the Market?
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Professional Development, ChemistryWhen chronic pain forces a top student to withdraw from college, biology instructor Dr. Sharpe learns that medications (in this ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFootball Fanaticism
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, Learning TheoriesA fight in a college town bar between the football player of one team and a drunken fan of a rival team results in a serious spi...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPermitted Uses
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Technology, Instructional Technology, Professional DevelopmentThe National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science holds the copyright for all of the cases in its collection. As the copyri...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEditorial Board
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Technology, Instructional Technology, Professional DevelopmentEditorial Board members advise the Center on its work as well as serve as a core group of reviewers for the case studies submitt...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEvaluating Student Case Work
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Technology, Instructional Technology, Professional DevelopmentHow do you grade students in classes with case teaching? There are a host of possibilities. Here we deal with only a couple. Let...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSickle Cell Anemia
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Biochemistry, Cells, Chemistry and 2 additional..In this case study on sickle cell anemia, students are introduced to some of the key researchers responsible for determining the...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAwards &?Recognition
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Technology, Instructional Technology, Professional DevelopmentWe are a recipient of a 2004 National Dissemination grant from the National Science Foundation s Division of Undergraduate Educa...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCooling Off a Warming Planet Analyzing the Tradeoffs in Policies for Climate Change
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Sociology and 6 additional..This role-playing case on climate change policy is designed to engage student groups in parallel discussions on policy instrumen...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThiamin Deficiency A Directed Case Study
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Nutrition, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, ChemistryIn this directed case study developed for a biochemistry class, students read about the differences in the dietary preferences a...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSaving Superman A Look Into Stem Cell Research
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Cells, Professional DevelopmentUsing a combination of directed case method and role-playing in which students learn about their roles using the jigsaw techniqu...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSo, What is it that Engineers Do, Anyway?
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Engineering & DesignIn this case study, new engineering students are introduced to the discipline of engineering by illustrating the roles of variou...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTo Spray or Not to Spray A Debate Over Malaria and DDT
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Personal and Community Health, Health Science & Medical Technology, Chemistry, Life Sciences and 2 additional..In this case study, students grapple with the complex issues surrounding the use of DDT to control malaria in the developing wor...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSplit My Brain A Case Study of Seizure Disorder and Brain Function
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Psychology, Life Sciences, Structure and Function in Living Things, History-Social Science and 3 additional..This case study involves a couple deciding whether or not their son should undergo brain surgery to treat a severe seizure disor...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBut It's Just a Bottle of Water
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIs Iron Fertilization Good for the Sea?
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Cells, Earth's Resources 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 / HyperLinkToo Many B Cells Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and the Role of Flow Cytometry
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Life Sciences, Cells, Biochemistry, Professional DevelopmentTaylor's doctor notices she has swollen lymph nodes and an elevated white blood cell count on her routine annual exam and asks h...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDire Straights Transsexualism and Gendered Stereotypes
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Humanities, Psychology, Sociology, History-Social Science and 2 additional..This case study is a fictional account of a romantic interlude in which a secret concerning the gender history of one of the cha...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Missing Link
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Humanities, Earth & Space Science, Evolution and Adaptation, Earth's Resources 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 / HyperLinkFace the Fats The Biochemistry of Lipids
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Nutrition, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Cells 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 / HyperLinkThe Fate and Transport of Toxic Releases A GIS Case Study
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Biochemistry, Engineering & Design 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