Cities of the Dead

- 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.