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CSI Expert!: Forensic Science for Kids [Paperback]

Karen Schulz (Author)
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April 1, 2008 5 and up
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 of books 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!

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About the Author

Karen K. Schulz received her bachelor’s degree in elementary education and mathematics from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1984. She received a master of arts in teaching from Webster University in 1989. In 1996, she earned her gifted certification from Webster University. She currently teaches at Wildwood Middle School in the Rockwood School District. Karen has been teaching middle school gifted education since 1993.

Over the years, Karen has presented her forensic science curriculum at numerous gifted education conferences. In 2001, Karen received the national Education’s Unsung Hero Award from ING Northern Annuity for her work in developing a forensic science curriculum for her classroom. In the fall of 2005, she won a national competition sponsored by Olympus America and Tool Factory, for her continuing work with forensics in the classroom.

Karen lives in Ballwin, MO, with her husband Jim, their daughter Taylor, and their son Matthew.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Prufrock Press; 1 edition (April 1, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593633122
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593633127
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An easy-to-use educational supplement ideal for spicing up one's curriculum, June 19, 2008
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Designed for classrooms in grades 5-8, CSI Expert! Forensic Science for Kids is a guide for educators to rousing kids' interest in science through twenty-five different lab activities concerning hot modern topics ranging from blood stains to fingerprinting and identifying counterfeit checks. A hands-on learning resource that meets national science standards, CSI Expert! divides each lab into (inexpensive) "materials needed", "essential question", "background research", step-by-step "experiment procedures", and various supplementary items such as reproducible data tables for students to fill in or sample charts and graphs. An easy-to-use educational supplement ideal for spicing up one's curriculum, and highly recommended for homeschooling teachers as well as grade school science instructors.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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4.0 out of 5 stars Book for Teachers, August 9, 2010
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This book was in excellent shape when I received it. I had purchased it for my daughter; however, as I looked through the book, I realized it was an activity book for teachers to use in the classroom.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas for science programming!, January 13, 2010
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We used activites in this book for several of our programs, and found them to be easy to implement. The supplies needed are everyday, with the exception of a few items for which ideas for purchase are given. Perfect combination of hands on and background!
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First Sentence:
A variety of crimes, including robberies, arson, counterfeiting, computer fraud, and murder, are committed each day. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
talking bones, crime scene documentation, simulated bones, superglue fuming, simulated blood, fingerprint lab, robbery note, burn chart, student lab, blood spatter patterns, metric ruler, connecting strokes, bloodstain patterns, magnetic powder, nearest centimeter, friction ridges
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prufrock Press, Mystery Powder, Case Closed, Seeing Red, Officer Johnson, Check Out This Check, Male Female, Plaster of Paris, Fiber Burn Chart, Whorls of Fun Fingerprint, Reference Materials, Tool Time, Setting Up the Lab, New York, Brooke O'Neill, Fingerprint Identification Practice Sheet, Noah Stevens, Fiber Identification Chart, Crummy Cake Chemistry, Repeat Steps, Burn Test
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