Problem-Based Learning at the University of Delaware

Sample PBL Problems

• Dan Tries Problem-Based Learning
• Hot-Headed Moles in Antarctica
• The Colorado River: Whose water is it anyway? (ITUE Summer'98)
• Whose Embryo Is It, Anyway? (ITUE Summer'99)

Biology

• When Twins Marry Twins
• The Geritol Solution

Chemistry/Biochemistry

• Saving for a Rainy Day
• Riverside's Dilemma (Teaching Notes)
• The Brominator (Teaching Notes)
• Sick Kids with an Unusal Organic Aciduria
• Case Study Problem in Molecular Evolution

Criminal Justice

• Crime and Punishment: Case Negotiation in the Criminal Justice System (ITUE January'99)

Physics

• A Day in the Life of John Henry, A Traffic Cop
• Overload, a problem on household wiring
• Lights Out!, a problem on batteries and lightbulbs
• Punkin' Chunkin', a design problem for engineering majors

Comments, suggestions, or requests to ud-pbl@udel.edu. "http://www.udel.edu/pbl/problems/" Last updated July 8, 2005. Copyright Univ. of Delaware, 1998.