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

Dust for latent fingerprints! Practice your fingerprint analysis skills! Make a fingerprint file! Solve the case of the jumbled thumbprint! Kenneth G. Rainis provides a fascinating and exciting place to start learning about forensic science. After learning some of the basics of fingerprint analysis, you will read about true crimes that were solved by a forensic technique involving fingerprint analysis. Then you can do an experiment and test your crime-solving skills using a similar technique. The experiments will help you understand how scientists solve crimes and what evidence they use to support their findings. Terrific ideas for further experimentation are provided so that you can create original science fair projects. Book jacket.

Children/Science Become a super science sleuth with . . . Detective Science 40 Crime-Solving, Case-Breaking, Crook-Catching Activitiesfor Kids Search for evidence, gather clues, and discover how science canhelp solve a mystery. From dusting for fingerprints to analyzinghandwriting, these easy, fun-filled activities give you a firsthandlook at how detectives and forensic scientists use science to solvereal-life crimes. Make a plaster cast of a shoe. Identify lip prints left on aglass. Examine hair and clothing fibers. Practice chemistry toidentify mystery substances, and much more. In no time at all, you'll be thinking like a detective andperforming experiments like a real forensic scientist!

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.

Compare hair samples from a mock crime scene ... make a fiber reference collection ... analyze paint chips ... solve the case of the discarded ghost! Kenneth G. Rainis provides a fascinating and exciting place to start learning about forensic science. After learning some of the basics of trace evidence, including fibers and impressions, you will read about true crimes that were solved by a forensic technique involving trace evidence analysis. Then you can do an experiment and test your crime-solving skills using a similar technique. The experiments will help you understand how scientists solve crimes and what evidence they use to support their findings. Terrific ideas for further experimentation are provided so that you can create original science fair projects. Book jacket.

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

"Presents several forensic science experiments using trace evidence. Includes science project ideas and crimes to solve"--Provided by publisher.