PBS/PBT · Investigation Day 13 of 18 · Autopsy Day · Case B RESPAWN · Period 6A-7B
The practice card: separate practice, not your case
This worked model uses the training findings card from the evidence sheet: a person found at the foot of a stepladder in a garage, with two skin injuries and a heart mass listed. It is not evidence for Case A or Case B. Use the structure, not these findings or answers, in your sheet.
Start: Read the practice card, then return to your own-case findings sheet.
Claim ceiling: Findings support or weaken causes of death; the manner still waits for the full picture. One organ's finding is a voice, not a verdict.
Part 3 of 4 · Worked example
The practice card: separate practice, not your case
This worked model uses the training findings card from the evidence sheet: a person found at the foot of a stepladder in a garage, with two skin injuries and a heart mass listed. It is not evidence for Case A or Case B. Use the structure, not these findings or answers, in your sheet.
The card's photo shows a training pad on a metal tray: a purple-red simulated scrape on the left, a ruler, a pale simulated scrape on the right. Caption it: training pad, simulated injuries, not a person. Read the card's text for the findings; the photo is a picture of a practice pad, not a measurement you took.
Training pad, simulated injuries, not a person. The photograph itself is not reproduced here; the card's text carries the findings.
Step 1. Region in the diagram's terms
The card says left forearm, palm side: write left forearm, anterior (front) surface. The card says right shin: write right lower leg, anterior surface.
Step 2. Copy each finding word for word
Finding 1: Abrasion (a scrape that removes the top skin layer), 4 cm, with bruising in the tissue beneath.
Finding 2: Abrasion, 2 cm, pale, with no bleeding into the tissue beneath.
No additions in the finding column.
Step 3. Call vital response, with the sign
Finding 1: YES, sign: bruising means blood leaked into living tissue.
Finding 2: NO, sign: pale with no bleeding into tissue, the way a scrape looks when the circulation had already stopped.
Step 4. Interpretation, in its own column, citing the finding
Finding 1: Consistent with an injury in life (cites the bruising); does not say how long before death, and does not say it caused death.
Finding 2: Consistent with an injury after death, for example during moving by responders (cites the pale, bloodless margin); does not say who or how.
Step 5. The heart number, logged without a judgment
The card lists a heart mass of 330 g in a 55 kg person. Convert kilograms to grams first: 55 × 1,000 = 55,000 g. Then 330 ÷ 55,000 = 0.006 = 0.6 percent of body mass. Write it in the finding column as a number, not as normal or enlarged; that judgment needs a reference range you were not given.
Your B3 checkpoint uses 350 g and 70 kg, not 330 and 55. Show your own conversion and division.
Step 6. Read the columns back
Every finding is verbatim, every call has a sign, every interpretation names its finding, and nothing in the table says how the person died. That last check is the ceiling.
| Practice row | Finding, verbatim | Call and sign | Interpretation citing the finding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left forearm, anterior surface | Abrasion, 4 cm, with bruising in the tissue beneath | Yes; bruising, blood leaked into living tissue | Consistent with an injury in life; not how long before death; not that it caused death |
| Right lower leg, anterior surface | Abrasion, 2 cm, pale, with no bleeding into the tissue beneath | No; pale, no bleeding into tissue | Consistent with an injury after death; not who or how |
Finished product: Finding 1 (left forearm abrasion with bruising) shows vital response, so it happened in life; Finding 2 (pale right lower leg abrasion, no bleeding) does not, so it is consistent with an injury after death. The 330 g heart in a 55 kg person is 0.6 percent of body mass, a number logged without a judgment.
Now do the same steps on your own case's supplied record in Part B. Every student uses the same supplied record; there is no separate team data set.
The model does not require another upload. Complete Parts A to E and your exhibit log in the one autopsy findings sheet.
Body region + finding, exactly as the examiner wrote it
Finding column only. Add nothing.
Yes (bleeding into tissue / swelling / tissue reaction)
No (little bleeding, no reaction)
Cannot tell (not a wound) | Not applicable (no injury found)
Consistent with ... (names the finding)
Does not say how long before death. Does not say it caused death.
An absence weakens an idea; it does not prove the opposite.
Heart checkpoint (path of blood + 350 g in 70 kg, no normal/enlarged label)
Conference summary: three findings, three calls, three citing interpretations
none released today; the open question, not the answer.
Findings support or weaken causes of death; the manner still waits.
Nothing on the sheet says how the person died.
Read the workflow as text
Find your own-case record and read one row: the body region and the finding. Copy the finding word for word into the finding column and add nothing. Decide the vital-response call: Yes with the sign when the wound bled into tissue, swelled or reacted; No with the sign when the wound shows little bleeding and no reaction; Cannot tell when the finding is an organ state rather than a wound; Not applicable when the finding reports nothing found. Write the interpretation in its own column, name the finding it rests on, and say what it does not say. Repeat for all six rows. Then complete the heart checkpoint and the conference summary in the same sheet. In the final ten minutes, log only your own case's exhibit, or write none released today, and write the open question as a question. The finished sheet does not claim an examination you performed, a specimen you handled or a cause of death.
Optional restart cue
Find the next unanswered task ID. Use R2 for the calls and the two columns, R3 for the heart, R4 for the words, R5 for the heart number and R6 for the exhibit log and the ceiling. Do not switch to the other case or create a second product.
Connection to PLTW
Related PLTW reference:
- Activity 1.2.4 Histology
- Activity 1.2.5 Gross Anatomy of the Heart
This John Hay original sheet practices reading an examination record, calling vital response, keeping findings and interpretations apart and tracing blood through the heart, connected to PLTW Activities 1.2.4 Histology and 1.2.5 Gross Anatomy of the Heart. It does not certify official activity completion. The complete required explanation is here; the simulation and guided notes are support, not extra assignments.
Activities 1.2.4 Histology + 1.2.5 Gross Anatomy of the Heart (referenced by title only; all materials in this file are John Hay original work).
Turn in one findings sheet
Complete one autopsy findings sheet, Parts A to E plus your case's exhibit log and open question. Hand the paper sheet to Mr. Mendoza before leaving, or submit one PDF to this section's assignment by September 24 at 11:59 PM. Use your period and investigator code. Do not submit twice; keep notebook pages in your notebook.
The practice card, the optional check and the short check do not require another upload. Complete Parts A to E and the exhibit log in the one findings sheet.
Case B: submit to Wk5 D13 · Autopsy Day (PLTW 1.2.4 and 1.2.5)Keep today's sheet for the next assigned case lesson, where tissue-level findings under the microscope explain today's organ-level ones. Do not assume slide results already exist; where the record says histology is pending, it is pending.
What this findings sheet cannot claim
Findings support or weaken causes of death; the manner still waits for the full picture. One organ's finding is a voice, not a verdict. Nothing today claims that you examined a body, an organ or a specimen, rotated through a station or produced team data, and nothing establishes a cause or a manner of death.
No public background reference is printed for this day; the briefing cites the supplied record only.