Ghosts: And Real-Life Ghost Hunters

24/7: Science Behind the Scenes

by Michael Teitelbaum

- Background information to build content-area knowledge Scientific timelines, words to know, job descriptions, and seminal cases
- Chapter Summaries and questions that recap the You're The Medical Examiner
- Reading Cues and Prompts, call-outs, highlighted words, diagrams, and primary sources
- Field Guides and Bone Guides, Parasite Guides, Ghost-Hunter Technology, Spy gadgets
- Cool, bold, graphic CSI-like real-time graphic organizers
- Critical thinking and the Science behind identifying who, what, when, where, why
Curriculum 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.

64 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Michael Teitelbaum has been a writer and editor of children’s books for more than thirty years. He worked on staff as an editor at Golden Books, Grossett & Dunlop, and Macmillan. In addition to The Scary States of America, Michael’s fiction work includes The Very Hungry Zombie: A Parody, and The Very Thirsty Vampire: A Parody both done with artist extraordinaire Jon Apple, published by Skyhorse. His non-fiction work includes writing Jackie Robinson: Champion for Equality, published by Sterling, and The Baseball Hall of Fame, a 2-volume encyclopedia, published by Grolier. He is also the series editor of Great Escapes, true-life acts of incredible courage, published by Harper Collins.
Michael has always had an interest in the paranormal, despite a rather normal childhood in Brooklyn, NY. These days, Michael lives with his wife, Sheleigah, and two talkative cats in an (as yet unhaunted) 180-year-old farmhouse in the beautiful Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.

Reviews

[William · Rating 1 out of 5]

too scary

[Edwina Book Anaconda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this book in 2008 and remember nothing about it. :(