CSI Expert!

CSI Expert! : Forensic Science for Kids (Grades 5-8)

Crime scene investigation is hotter than ever, and kids everywhere will love learning about how their favorite detectives use science to figure out unsolvable thefts, arsons, mysteries, and more. CSI Expert!: Forensic Science for Kids includes more than 25 in-depth activities on fingerprinting, evidence collection, blood-stain identification, forensic careers, ballistics, and much more.

The author of the best-selling Crime Scene Detective series combines more than a decade of experience teaching forensic science to middle school students with the latest technology and research in criminal investigations in the intriguing standards-based scientific study included in CSI Expert!

Students will love collecting dental impressions, studying their classmates' fingerprints, looking at tool marks left at the scene of the crime, analyzing mysterious powders, and discovering the various types of counterfeit checks. Each lesson includes a realistic case for students to crack using the knowledge they've learned about analyzing forensic evidence, and the book also includes an assessment assignment that teachers can employ to test their students' learning.

Both kids and teachers will be able to easily implement the book's hands-on, detailed, and exciting forensic science experiments using everyday materials. After completing these activities, kids will be begging for more fun science learning!

Grades 5-8

  • For ages: 9-12
  • Format: Paperback | 156 pages
  • Dimensions: 210 x 280 x 9.91mm | 286g
  • Publication date: 01 May 2008
  • Publisher: Prufrock Press
  • Publication City/Country: Waco, TX, United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN10: 1593633122
  • ISBN13: 9781593633127
  • Bestsellers rank: 206,756

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