- 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.