" ... brings authentic, real-world learning to the classroom and: transforms students' thinking and fosters 21st-century skills; provides strategies, examples, and resources for implementing case-based learning across the disciplines; features a step-by-step process for creating case-based lessons; includes connections to inquiry-based, problem-based, and project-based learning; builds off of a prominent educational strategy used in medicine and law. ... Your students can study problems that have occurred or could occur in the real world and develop solutions, utilizing critical thinking, creativity, and imagination to answer questions that don't always have one right answer."--Publisher's website.

Introduction -- Part I: Why case studies and case-based learning? What is case-based learning? ; Advantages of case-based learning ; How is case-based learning authentic? -- Part II: Putting it all together. How to write your own case ; Purposefully teaching collaboration ; Managing the case-based learning classroom -- Part III: Case studies in the content areas. Case studies in mathematics ; Case studies in language arts ; Case studies in science ; Case studies in social studies -- Conclusion.