Killer at Large: Criminal Profilers and the Cases They Solve!

- 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 StandardsScience 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.