Resources

• Who Dunnit? Home
• Fingerprinting
• Teeth Impressions
• Powders
• Foot to Height
• Solve the Crime
• Resources

• 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

Dan the Man is the Barefoot Burglar

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