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Pbs Teachers: Dead Men's Tales: Inferring Height From Bone Length

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Explore the work of forensic scientists by inferring an individual's height from the length of certain long bones. Create bone/height relation charts and measure length using metric units. This activity was created to be used with the Scientific American Frontiers program called "Dead Men's Tales."

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forensics
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femur, forensic scientists, human height, measuring bones, regression, pbs teachers: dead men's tales: inferring height from bone length, bone identification
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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