Collects twenty science experiments that mimic techniques used at crime scenes, including figuring out a suspects height and analyzing handwriting and paper fibers.

Presents more than twenty great experiments--broken into topics such as blood and guts, eyewitness accounts, and physical evidence--that allow students to use real CSI techniques to find clues, analyze the data, and come to their own conclusions.

Forensic scientists use many different skills to help them solve crimes, including the scientific method. Find out if you have what it takes to be a detective with fun experiments about being a keen observer, breaking codes, collecting evidence, and more. Many experiments include ideas you can use for your science fair, and each chapter ends with a crime for you to solve!

Ever wonder how forensics experts and law enforcement solve crimes? Learn how to build a crime lab of your very own with tools and supplies you can easily obtain. Then, following the step-by-step instructions, play the part of a forensic scientist by doing your own experiments, analyzing evidence and drawing conclusions.

Do you think your readers have what it takes to be a forensic scientist? Readers will use their sleuthing skills and the scientific method to do fun science projects about fingerprints, lip prints, footprints, and more. Many experiments include ideas readers can use for their science fair, and each chapter ends with a crime for readers to solve.

This unique resource offers activities in earth, life, and physical science as well as science inquiry and technology. The Grades 6-12 level book provides labs on life, physical, and earth science as well as critical thinking. Like real-life forensic scientists, students observe carefully, organize, and record data, think critically, and conduct simple tests to solve crimes like theft, dog-napping, vandalism and water pollution. For added fun, each resource features an original cartoon character, Investi Gator for the Elementary level and Crime Cat for Grades 6-12. All activities include complete background information with step-by-step procedures for the teacher and reproducible student worksheets. Whatever the teacher's training or experience in teaching science, Crime Scene Investigations can be an intriguing supplement to instruction.

Provides twenty experiments in forensic science that will intrigue both students and teachers and promote the interest in multiple science-process skills.

Introduces various aspects of forensic science--document examination, forgeries and counterfeiting, blood and DNA analysis, and trace evidence and provides suggestions for related projects.

Trace evidence is often the most important evidence involved in a crime. Analyze bones and blood spatter patterns, find out if bullets came from a suspect's gun, and more. Many experiments include ideas readers can use for their science fair, using the scientific method, and each chapter ends with a crime for readers to solve.