Partners in Crime offers middle school teachers an innovative and highly entertaining resource for integrating language arts and science strategies that will challenge students while meeting standardized learning goals. With a creative approach of focusing on the practical application of critical thinking, problem solving, and prose nonfiction expression, Partners in Crime engages your students by asking them to solve a crime using the skills of forensic science while simultaneously teaching them key concepts in language arts. As flexible as it is creative, Partners in Crime can be used for a variety of classroom settings whether as a single activity, weekly lesson, full unit, or school and community project. The activities in Partners in Crime can also help you build teamwork by tapping into your school community, resources, and technology. Throughout the book, your students are encouraged to conduct original research and challenged to draw conclusions based upon their ability to weigh evidence. Partners in Crime also contains suggestions for helping you and your students make connections with local law enforcement that will provide support for deeper understanding of the exercises. The book is filled with ideas for encouraging students to create written reports, presentations, and producing films and videos. The book also includes activities and guidelines for benchmarking student performance during and after the each unit.
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"Hein ties forensics to his lessons on writing narrative, persuasive, and expository essays." (Instructor, March 2006)
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"Hein is an innovative and entrepreneurial educator whose cross-curriculum approach paves the way for learning built on creative problem-solving and practical application of knowledge. This model exemplifies what is possible when teachers open the classroom to educational and community collaboration."
--Patricia M. Roberts, director, Institute for Educational Excellence and Entrepreneurship, College of Education, West Chester University
--Patricia M. Roberts, director, Institute for Educational Excellence and Entrepreneurship, College of Education, West Chester University
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This review is from: Partners in Crime: Integrating Language Arts and Forensic Science, Grades 5-8 (Paperback)
Forensic Science for students has become a very hot item. This book, as a part of the growing collection of available materials for teachers, offers an interesting way to approach this topic.
This book is targeted to help middle school teachers, and their students, become familiar with real-world forensic techniques. Some of the topics include toxicology, tool marks, fingerprinting, fiber and hair analysis, and more. What is even more exciting is the unique approach to how students learn. Not only are there suggested hands-on science activities but there is a strong interdisciplinary connection to langauage arts. The author provides a format that encourages students to write while they learn. They build their vocabulary and keep an investigative journal. As an added bonus, the suggested materials list for activities are items that can easily be acquired. Lastly there is a continuing mystery to be solved and each chapter provides another segment towards the solution of that mystery. All in all, this book is a must have for those who want to learn and teach students from upper elementary to high school.
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This is an excellent elective addition to our homeschooling. Well writen, clear and intereesting.
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Crime scenes in literature run the full gamut of information offered to the reader. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
standards guide words, cumulative mystery, incorporate such distinctions, dental stone, preceding objective, bloodstain evidence, gunshot residue, human blood type, firearm identification, comparison microscope, one class period, detectives unit, universal indicator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Wiley John, Lesson Objectives, Standards Guide Words, Subject Matter, Writing Allotted, Notebook Allotted, Clifford Morrin, Crime Science, Encyclopedia of Forensic Science, Methods of Forensic Detection, University Press of Kentucky, Academic Press, Detective Kahil, Firefly Books, Hidden Evidence, Richmond Hill, Cumulative Mystery Allotted, Cracking Cases, Statement Form Name, The Science of Solving Crimes, Upper Saddle River, Brian Hasslock, Corinne Svedorski, Drawings Sample New!
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Crime scenes in literature run the full gamut of information offered to the reader. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
standards guide words, cumulative mystery, incorporate such distinctions, dental stone, preceding objective, bloodstain evidence, gunshot residue, human blood type, firearm identification, comparison microscope, one class period, detectives unit, universal indicator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Wiley John, Lesson Objectives, Standards Guide Words, Subject Matter, Writing Allotted, Notebook Allotted, Clifford Morrin, Crime Science, Encyclopedia of Forensic Science, Methods of Forensic Detection, University Press of Kentucky, Academic Press, Detective Kahil, Firefly Books, Hidden Evidence, Richmond Hill, Cumulative Mystery Allotted, Cracking Cases, Statement Form Name, The Science of Solving Crimes, Upper Saddle River, Brian Hasslock, Corinne Svedorski, Drawings Sample New!
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- Crime Science: Methods of Forensic Detection by Joe Nickell on 9 pages
- Cracking Cases: The Science of Solving Crimes by Henry C. Lee on 7 pages
- What the Corpse Revealed by Hugh Miller on 4 pages
- Forensic Casebook by N E Genge on page 45, page 66, and page 152
- Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes by John Douglas in Front Matter, page 45, and page 178
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