Who Dunnit? Slide Show

Standards

• NCTM Standards
  • Recognize, describe, extend, and create a wide variety of patterns
  • Collect, organize, and describe data
  • Construct, read, and interpret displays of data
• National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
• National Science Education Standards

Websites

• Crime Scene Investigation from StemWorks
• Fingerprinting: A Lesson in Classification
• History of Fingerprints

Extensions for integrating the unit into the curriculum.

• Language Arts - reading mysteries, writing mysteries, writing evidence, persuasive writing
• Social Studies - mock trial for suspects
• Art - sketching crime scenes

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Books

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	Crime Lab Chemistry : Teacher's Guide by Jacqueline Barber December 1993
	Detective Science: 40 Crime-Solving, Case-Breaking, Crook-Catching Activities for Kids by Jim Wiese, Ed Shems (Illustrator) February 6, 1996
	Fingerprinting (Great Explorations in Math and Science) by Jeremy J. Ahouse, Carl Babcock, Carol Bevilacqua (Illustrator) December 1998