Detective Science

Author: Jim Wiese
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471119806
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
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!

Science Detective Beginning

Author: Stephen David Fischer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780894558344
Category : Critical thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Science Detective uses topics and skills drawn from national science standards to prepare your child for more advanced science courses and new assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in science. Grades 3-4.

I Can Be a Science Detective

Author: Claudia Martin
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486839214
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Do you have what it takes to become a science sleuth? Of course you do! Discover how to gather clues and collect evidence to catch a thief, follow instructions to extract DNA from strawberries, take your own fingerprints, analyze handwriting, and much more. While you're having fun inspecting, detecting, and experimenting, you'll be learning all about the intriguing world of forensic science and its important role in real life.

Science and the Detective

Author: Brian H. Kaye
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Sets out to introduce non-scientists to the techniques of modern forensic science.

Crime Scene Detective

Author: Karen K. Schulz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000491439
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
Watch the excitement ripple through your classroom as students use their intellect to find out who committed the "crime" at your school. Enliven your students as they practice critical thinking skills. Students are often taught skills such as the scientific method, scientific research, critical thinking, making observations, analyzing facts, and drawing conclusions in isolation. Studying forensic science allows students to practice these skills and see theories put into practice by using circumstances that model real-life events, meanwhile letting students explore a variety of career options. This exciting unit includes: background information on forensics, exploration of careers in forensic science and law enforcement, a simulation involving a fire in the school library, and instructions for writing your own crime scene simulation. To crack the case, students examine evidence left at the scene, interview suspects (staff members), and use critical thinking to connect all of the clues and eliminate suspects. Students will feel like real investigators with this true-to-life simulation. Let your students solve more mysteries with Mystery Disease, Mystery Science, Detective Club, and The Great Chocolate Caper. Grades 5-8

Science Detective

Author: Stephen David Fischer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780894558351
Category : Critical thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description

The CS Detective

Author: Jeremy Kubica
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 1593277490
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Meet Frank Runtime. Disgraced ex-detective. Hard-boiled private eye. Search expert. When a robbery hits police headquarters, it’s up to Frank Runtime and his extensive search skills to catch the culprits. In this detective story, you’ll learn how to use algorithmic tools to solve the case. Runtime scours smugglers’ boats with binary search, tails spies with a search tree, escapes a prison with depth-first search, and picks locks with priority queues. Joined by know-it-all rookie Officer Notation and inept tag-along Socks, he follows a series of leads in a best-first search that unravels a deep conspiracy. Each chapter introduces a thrilling twist matched with a new algorithmic concept, ending with a technical recap. Perfect for computer science students and amateur sleuths alike, The CS Detective adds an entertaining twist to learning algorithms. Follow Frank’s mission and learn: –The algorithms behind best-first and depth-first search, iterative deepening, parallelizing, binary search, and more –Basic computational concepts like strings, arrays, stacks, and queues –How to adapt search algorithms to unusual data structures –The most efficient algorithms to use in a given situation, and when to apply common-sense heuristic methods

Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

Author: Ronald R. Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521527620
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America. Ronald R. Thomas examines the criminal body as a site of interpretation and enforcement in a wide range of fictional examples, from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. He is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the 'devices' - fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors - with which he discovers the truth and establishes his expertise, and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre. This is an interdisciplinary project, framing readings of literary texts with an analysis of contemporaneous developments in criminology, the rules of evidence, and modern scientific accounts of identity.

Encyclopedia of Forensic Science

Author: Barbara Gardner Conklin
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 9781573561709
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"The entries touch on the disciplines of criminal justice, criminal and civil law, literature, and history to provide a broad base for understanding the diverse ways forensic science affects our society."--BOOK JACKET.

How to Be a Nature Detective

Author: Millicent E. Selsam
Publisher: HarperColl
ISBN: 9780064451345
Category : Animal tracks
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Explains how to use clues such as footprints to identify animals in a particular area.