Have You Seen This Face? The Work of Forensic Artists

- Background information to build content-area knowledge: Scientific Timelines, Words to Know, Job Descriptions, Seminal Cases.

- Chapter Summaries/Questions recap the evidence: You're the M.E.

- Reading Cues and Clues: Prompts, call-outs, highlighted words, diagrams, and primary sources.

- Field Guides and Tools: Bone Guides, Parasite Guides, Gadgets.

- Cool, bold, graphic design: CSI-like real-time graphic organizers.

- Critical thinking and analysis: the science behind identifying who, what, when, where, and why.

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.