Some Web Links for ICBL
How to do ICBL, implementation, getting students started, assessment
- Using investigative cases in geoscience. http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/icbl/index.html
Comprehensive paper on ICBL, uses environmental microbiology case as full example.
- ICBL link on the LifeLines OnLine homepage http://bioquest.org/lifelines
This drop down menu lists topics related to teaching with and developing cases.
- Student notes for using cases http://serc.carleton.edu/files/introgeo/icbl/CaseUserNotes.doc
This word document can be modified to fit your circumstances
- Case Analysis sheets. http://serc.carleton.edu/files/introgeo/icbl/Case_Analysis_Worksheet.doc
Document file
- BioQUEST 3 Ps approach http://bioquest.org/index3ps.html
Part of the underlying instructional philosophy of ICBL
- Waterman, M.A. and E.D. Stanley. 2004. Doing science collaboratively with investigative case based learning. Strategies for Success, Issue 41, Spring 2004. Longer version with resources also published on
www.aw-bc.com/events/strategies/newsletters/index.html March 2004
- Stanley, E.D. and Waterman, M.A. Investigative Cases: Collaborative Inquiry in Science. Great Ideas in Teaching Biology. January 2005; Vol. 3: 6-14 http://www.aw-bc.com/greatideas/pdfs/greatideas_bio_v3.pdf
- http://www.chautauqua.pitt.edu/
Chautauqua short course program, every summer, supported by NSF. Courses on ICBL.
Microbiology Cases Used in This Workshop
- WNV http://bioquest.org/lifelines/biotech2003/llol_project_template.php?project_id=45
- Outbreaks http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/waterman/ll2001finalprojects/htm2001modules/Outbreak_files/frame.htm
- SimBio 2 Modeling http://bioquest.org/simbio2.html
- Altoids/Prion case http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/waterman/ll2001finalprojects/htm2001modules/HOW%20NOW%20MAD%20COW_files/frame.htm
- Goodbye Honeybuckets (arctic microbiology) http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/waterman/ll2001finalprojects/htm2001modules/goodbye%20honeybuckets2_files/frame.htm
Finding Cases Online
- http://www.bioquest.org/lifelines/
The LifeLines OnLine ICBL project.
- http://www.bioquest.org/lifelines/cases_other.html
Workshops listed on LifeLines, but developed at other workshops in 2000
- http://bioquest.org/lifelines/emory/
Cases from a workshop at Emory
- http://www.bioquest.org/lifelines/prism/resources.php#projects
Cases from a G-K-12 project (PRISM) at Emory University
- American Society for Microbiology education resources at http://www.asm.org
- http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.htm
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science: Clearinghouse for Case Studies in Science
- https://www.mis4.udel.edu/Pbl
PBL Clearinghouse: A collection of problems and articles to assist educators in using problem-based learning.
- http://www.bioquest.org/microbescount/
Information on Microbes Count! book of 40+ lab activities and investigations, available from ASM press
- http://www.asmpress.org/browse/bound/index.asp?SelectedItem=10054
Link to Microbes Count! at ASM press
- http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0805371761-VP,00.html Information on purchasing or getting an examination copy of Benjamin/Cummings “Biological Inquiry: A Workbook of Investigative Cases”
- http://serc.carleton.edu/undergrad_geosci/ Digital Library for Earth Systems Education's link to the resources for undergraduate education These include cases that connect nicely to environmental microbiology.
- http://www.dlese.org/dds/query.do?q=Investigative%20case&s=0 A listing of investigative cases in DLESE
Sample Resources for Building ICBL Problem Spaces
- http://bioquest.org Homepage of the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, linking to projects and calendars. Information on the BioQUEST Library of software
- http://www.bioquest.org/bedrock/problem_spaces/index.php
Links to problem spaces for HIV, WNV, and prions. Ready to be used for bioinformatics investigations and to be linked to new cases.
- http://www.bioquest.org/bedrock/Orientation_Bio_Workbench.pdf
Orientation to Biology WorkBench, a suite of tools for bioinformatics
- http://workbench.sdsc.edu
Freely available access to a suite of tools and databases for proteomics, genomics investigations.
- Most of the cases listed on the LifeLines OnLine site have suggested investigations and some resources.
- Including ASM's Microbe World at http://www.microbeworld.org/home.htm