Crime Scene Science Fair Projects

by Elizabeth Snoke Harris

Blood, gore, and mystery—now, that’s way cool! Kids just love crime scene investigations, and they’ll get a thrill from turning their passion into a blue-ribbon science fair project. This fantastic color collection presents more than 20 great experiments, broken into exciting topics such as blood and guts, eyewitness accounts, and physical evidence. Best of all, children use actual CSI they’ll lift fingerprints, extract DNA, record skid marks, and see what a few key clues can reveal about a crime. Then they get to analyze the data, and come to their own conclusions. And don’t there are no real crime scenes, dead bodies, or even suspects involved! (For example, an old steak demonstrates the process of decomposition.) In addition to the awesome projects, there’s tons of fun CSI history, careers, and cases.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published November 28, 2006

About the author

Beth has been involved in science education for over 20 years in the classroom, research facilities and museums. She loves sharing fun experiments with anyone who will listen and with whatever is handy. When she's not working on science curriculum projects or leading STEM field trips at the local roller rink, she serves as web master for science education organizations. Her other hobbies include playing with her kids, gardening, and beekeeping in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Reviews

[Malcolm · Rating 3 out of 5]

This books tells you about crime scenes and the different types of science policemen and scientists use to solve crimes.This book is mostly about science so you might find parts of it boring. The book also tells you all the right steps and what you need before starting a science project.If you like doing science projects this would be a good book for you to read, and find out information about what you want to do and how to start your project.

[emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm psyched to use this for my 4th graders.