Overview
– Background information to build content-area knowledge including: Scientific timelines, words to know, job descriptions, and seminal cases
– Chapter Summaries and questions that recap the evidence: You’re The Medical Examiner
– Reading Cues and Clues: Prompts, call-outs, highlighted words, diagrams, and primary sources
– Field Guides and Tools: Bone Guides, Parasite Guides, Ghost-Hunter Technology, Spy gadgets
– Cool, bold, graphic design: CSI-like real-time graphic organizers
– Critical thinking and analysis: the Science behind identifying who, what, when, where, why
Curriculum Standards: Grades 5-8 and 9-12 Science Standards
Science as Inquiry
– Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations.
– Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models.
– Communicate and defend a scientific argument.
– Results of scientific inquiry emerge from different types of investigations and public communication among scientists.
Science and Technology
– Communicate the problem, process, and solution
– Scientists use different methods of investigation, and accept different types of evidence to support their explanations.