Partners In Crime Integrating Language Arts and Forensic Science, Grades 5-8

Partners in Crime offers middle school teachers an innovative and highly engaging resource for integrating language arts and science strategies that will challenge students while meeting standardized learning goals. With a creative approach of focusing on the practical application of critical thinking, problem solving, and prose nonfiction expression, Partners in Crime engages your students by asking them to solve a crime using the skills of forensic science while simultaneously teaching them key concepts in language arts. As flexible as it is creative, Partners in Crime can be used for a variety of classroom settings whether as a single activity, weekly lesson, full unit, or school and community project. The activities in Partners in Crime can also help you build teamwork by tapping into your school community, resources, and technology. Throughout the book, your students are encouraged to conduct original research and challenged to draw conclusions based upon their ability to weigh evidence. Partners in Crime also contains suggestions for helping you and your students make connections with local law enforcement that will provide support for deeper understanding of the exercises. The book is filled with ideas for encouraging students to create written reports, presentations, films, and videos. The book also includes activities and guidelines for benchmarking student performance during and after the each unit. "Hein is an innovative and entrepreneurial educator whose cross-curriculum approach paves the way for learning built on creative problem-solving and practical application of knowledge. This model exemplifies what is possible when teachers open the classroom to educational and community collaboration." -Patricia M. Roberts, director, Institute for Educational Excellence and Entrepreneurship, College of Education, West Chester University "This book is an interdisciplinary masterpiece! Hein's methodology of analytical problem solving and organized research align the writing process and real-world adventures in a way that will intrigue, empower, and motivate middle school writers." -Ken Rivenbark, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at WilmingtonHein, E. K. is the author of 'Partners In Crime Integrating Language Arts and Forensic Science, Grades 5-8', published 2004 under ISBN 9780787969936 and ISBN 0787969931.