Science Supplement or It's Own Science Course

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	• Crime Scene Investigations: Real-Life Science Labs For Grades 6-12 Pam Walker, Elaine Wood Jossey-Bass, 1998 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Science Supplement or It's Own Science Course

Fully developed lesson plans for 6th-12th graders on various aspects of forensic science. Requires some gathering of materials, all easily obtainable, but not necessarily household items. Requires some prep on the part of the teacher, but not excessive prep work. Includes activities that can be completed in one day, and activities that involve observation over a time span of days or weeks. There is an elementary school edition for younger children. I wish it were still offered in the original spiral binding, though.

High quality addition to traditional science curriculum or good as a stand-alone special course.

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Reading and Math Teachers

I am the math teacher but I am partnering with a reading teacher to co-teach the lessons in this book. We have already completed the handwriting lab and the logic lab with a dead boyfriend. This lab was very engaging to my "player" boys in junior high and they they had to figure out which of the 6 girlfriends killed the boyfriend. Lots of fun!

The next lab we are doing is a self-generated lab involving fingerprints. We read through the lab and didn't like the story so we are inspired to write our own, once again because of the book.

Personally, I love this book and am ordering my own copy of it. It promotes reading because the students read the lab and find the answers. All we do is monitor the kids and it is lots of fun to see who they think committed the crime.

Great book!

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a fun resource

I teach 6th grade science and this book has lots of practical hands-on ideas for classroom use. The labs are fairly easy to implement and they are engaging for the students. This book is especailly good for a summer school program or enrichment work. Perfect for middle school level. I don't think it would work well for much beyond middle school.

Easy to Use

I teach a ton of forensics in my high school science classes and wasn't sure if this book would provide me with new ideas, but it did. I ordered this at the end of the school year and was able to use some of the activities to keep the kids occupied during the last days before exams. The activities I have used so far are super easy to use and kept the kids really engaged.

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Easy to do forensic science labs

This book has a lot great activities in it. The title says for grades 6-12, but I would say most of the activities are appropriate for 6-8 as is. You can definitley modify them and build upon them to make them suitable for grades 9-12. Would recommend to anyone who teaches forensic science or is looking for a way to incorporate forensic science into other science subjects.

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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.

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