Crime Scene Investigation Activities
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Wingspan
Have your students check out this project and find out how math and anthropology come together to solve crimes.
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Take a Tour of a Forensic Biology Lab
If you want to learn all about forensics and how to solve mysteries and crimes using the science of forensics, take a virtual tour of this lab! You will meet the scientists, learn the…
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Handwriting Analysis
For forensic scientists, any characteristic of people can give them clues, including a person’s handwriting. Document examiners investigate handwriting to find out if documents are f…
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Change Blindness Demonstration
Do your students think they can spot differences in photos? Well, let them try this one! Let your students learn all about change blindness with this fun activity!
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CSI Web Adventure
This activity is a game that allows students to get hands on experience while learning about the CSI.
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Double Dutch Brain Game
This fun activity is a double dutch brain game to challenge your brain's spatial awareness abilities. Students will have fun and learn at the same time!
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SMU CSI Camps
SMU CSI camps are for 6th and 7th grade students, and they are a ton of fun! There are four sessions of this camp, and applications are closing on April 24th!
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Fingerprint Classification
Students will learn about fingerprint classification. By taking fingerprints and making observations, students will follow the scientific method to devise a fingerprint classification…
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Dusting for Fingerprints
In this activity, students will learn how to dust for fingerprints. This will allow the students to understand the importance of fingerprint classification.
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Crime Scene Investigation Foundations of Law Integrated Unit
In this unit, students take on the role of crime scene investigators to solve a murder that has occurred at the school. They will integrate math, science, and language arts into the s…
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Go Cognitive Change Blindness Game
During crime scene investigations, eye witnesses can be really helpful in identifying who the perpetrator of a crime is. The problem is that people aren't always very oberservant and …
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2012 USA Science and Engineering Festival: Discover Your Unique Fingerprint
Lesson Title: Discover Your Unique Fingerprint Grade Level: 6th-7th grade Estimated Time: 30 minutes Lesson Description: This activity will teach students about one way crime…
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2012 USA Science and Engineering Festival: Paper Chromatography Activity
Lesson Title: Paper Chromatography Lab Grade Level: 6th-7th grade Estimated time: 30 minutes Lesson Description: Send your students to the USA Science and Engineering Festiva…
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Paper Towel Chromatography
This fun experiment allows kids to see a glimpse of what chromatography, the study of different compounds, is about.
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High School Forensics
Here are a few fun projects your kids can do that involve forensic investigation. They are intended as science projects, but they can do them at any time! Click on the link to…
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Projects on Forensic Science
Here are three fun projects that kids can do that involve forensic investigation. They include a forensic psychology experiment, a blood experiment, and an ink evidence experiment. Cl…
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Imprints
This project demonstrates how imprints are created. Students can learn how dinosaur (and other animal) tracks were formed through this fun project.
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Electronic Lie Detector
In this video, your students can watch kids just like themselves building their own lie detectors, devices that measure physical changes in the body that might indicate when a person …
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Fingerprint Merit Badge for Boy Scouts
This project will enable a Boy Scout to earn a merit badge, but it’s relevant for non-Scouts too. It will give your students a short history of fingerprinting, tell them the differen…
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Foot to Height
Have your students check out this project and find out how math and anthropology come together to solve crimes. They will learn the answers to questions like, "If a forensic scientis…
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Powder Analysis
Identifying evidence at a crime scene has to be done in a way that will allow people to use that evidence in court. In this situation, a police officer found an unidentified white po…
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CSI Science: Get the Prints!
Have your students practice lifting fingerprints off of objects using a few tools found around the house. Then see if they can trace the prints back to the person who left them.
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Create a DNA Fingerprint
DNA can tell us a lot about the world around us and who has done what. Using this interactive lab, students can learn how to make a DNA fingerprint, evaluate evidence, and solve a crime!
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Canine Intelligence
Have your students ever wondered how smart their dogs are? The girls in this video did, so they put their dogs to the test. Have your students try out the tests on their own dogs, t…
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Crime Scene: The Case of the Barefoot Burglar
Kids get to solve the crime of the barefoot burglar in this game. By clicking on the different areas in the kitchen, kids can scan for various clues that will point them to the correc…
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The Art of Crime Detection
Did you know that our brains are made up of two separate hemispheres and that each one interprets different types of data? Learn more about this and more in this interactive game abou…
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Reconstruct a Skull
This presentation teaches kids how to reconstruct a skull. Crime scene analysts will often have to reconstruct skeletal bones in order to figure out the identity of the victim. Click …
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Perp Walk - A Game of Science and Lies
This game teaches kids how the interrogating process works when trying to pin a suspect for a crime. Click on the link to try this fun and interactive game.
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Ink Chromatography Lab
Here's an activity where kids can learn how to extract ink from a secret message using various household items. Click on the link to find out more!
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Outbreak!
Who was the culprit that spread the flu and made everyone sick? Have your child figure it out by following the clues and inputting the data into the graph generator. Click on the link…
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The Adler Food Mystery
Here's an activity for kids that involves solving a solving a mystery .They are given documents to analyze and witness interview. They must deduce from the evidence who committed the …
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Iris Recognition
Objective In this activity you will gain experience with iris recognition and explore ocular metrics. Learn more by reading Iris Recognition. Equipment Digital Camera Noteboo…
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Face Recognition - Features and Measurements
Objective You will gain more experience with face recognition and take measurement of your own face. Learn more by reading Face Recognition. Equipment Face Pictures from Fac…
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SMU CSI Camp: Fingerprint Recognition
Objective This activity give kids an opportunity to gain experience with fingerprint recognition. Refer to Fingerprint Matching to learn about the different characteristics of fing…
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SMU CSI Camp: Phone GPS Location
Objective You will use trilateration to find the location of objects, just like how cell phone towers find your phone's position. Learn more about finding a location by reading Pho…
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SMU CSI Camps: Speech Recognition Signal Representation
Objective In this activity kids will get to see signal representation of speech. They will learn about frequency and why speech differs. Learn more about signal represenation by re…
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SMU CSI Camps: Practicing with Face Detection
Objective: Practicing with Face Detection In this part you will gain experience with face recognition software. Learn more information about face detection in Face Recognition. …
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SMU CSI Camps: Paleontology Activity
Background In this activity you will get to measure bones to figure out the height of the skeleton. It only takes one bone's measurement to apporixamate a person's height! Read Pal…
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SMU CSI Camps: Speech Recognition
Objective Speech is produced using the lungs, vocal tract, and mouth making it so that each and every one of us have a unique voice. In this activity kids can get experience with s…
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Forensic Science Experiments
In this activity, kids can learn techniques on how to analyze a room for clues. Kids will learn how to inspect for clues like fingerprints or DNA samples.
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CSI: The Experience Web Adventure
This is a game-like activity where kids can follow the experts from the TV show CSI to learn about how forensic science helps solve crimes.
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Scavenger Hunt at the International Spy Museum
Lead your students on a scavenger hunt through the International Spy Museum, where they will follow clues, solve problems, and decode messages hidden throughout -- just like real spies!
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Evidence - How Do We Know What We Know
San Francisco's Exploratorium hosts this interactive online exhibit which allows students to examine the process of how, through investigation and observation, ideas and information b…
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Become a Junior Ranger at the Petroglyph National Monument
The Petroglyph National Monument has an online interactive program that teaches kids all about its petroglyphs. The program has questions throughout, and if they do well enough, they …