Category Archives: Non-Fiction

Jun24

Collecting Fingerprint Samples

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Collecting Fingerprint Samples

Fingerprint Evidence We leave fingerprints on everything we touch hundreds of times a day. We leave them on drinking glasses, silverware, computer keyboards, toys, door knobs, water faucets, books and more. Even though we leave them everywhere, we don’t notice them at all. At a crime scene though, these left behind prints can be very important. Even one fingerprint can solve a case.

The skin on the palms of our hands and on our fingertips are covered with a pattern of ridges. You don’t even need a microscope to see them. These ridges help us grip things. Every single person has a different pattern of ridges. Even the hands and fingers of identical twins are different. The ridges stay the same throughout a person’s life too. These facts are what make fingerprints so useful for crime scene investigators. Fingerprints don’t lie. Today, you will learn how to take other people’s fingerprints.

Talk the Talk Word of the Day: Eyewitness – Someone who saw a crime committed and might have information about it.

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Jun23

Forensics

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Forensics

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Maybe you would like to be a forensic detective. Forensics are scientific tests that are used to solve mysteries. A forensic scientist might work in a lab or might go out to places where crimes are committed, the crime scene. Watch this video of Jose. He uses forensic science to solve mysteries. By testing physical evidence he identifies suspects and helps bring them to justice.

Not everyone would like being a forensic scientist or a crime scene investigator. People who do this job work in good weather or bad, during the day or in the middle of the night. Because they are helping investigate crimes, they have to look at crime scenes and victims that have been hurt. However, if you like csirookie_regscience and you like thinking through things in steps using logic, it might be the job for you. You could feel good knowing you helped put a criminal in jail or knowing you helped prove the innocence of a person. Now that you’ve watched Jose, you can really put yourself in his shoes. Get some online experience with forensics at CSI Web Adventures Rookie Training.

You might also like to try these books:

Forensic Science

How to be a Crime Scene Investigator

CSI Expert

 

 

 

In the next few days we will explore several different kinds of forensic science. Tomorrow we’ll begin with fingerprinting.

Talk the Talk Word of the Day: Evidence – An object or information that is used as proof in a crime investigation.

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Jun9

Rookie Testing Day 1

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Rookie Testing Day 1

spyacademy_regHey recruits, I’m glad you decided to start your detective training. Welcome to Rookie Testing. Are you ready? Get a snack. Get hydrated (drink water). Get ready.

To find out if you have what it takes to became an Ace detective I’m sending you to school.  Since spies and detectives share some of the same skills, I’m sending you to the Spy Academy. You will take part in a Spy Simulation so that I  can see if you are quick thinking and have good reflexes. Don’t be fooled, it starts out easy and then gets harder and harder. I got to level seven. Can you beat that?

How to be a Crime Scene Investigator

You can pick up a few more tips from secret agents, our partners in crime fighting, from this Official Guide: Secret Agent Y.O.U. the Official Guide to Secret Codes, Disguises, Surveillance, and MORE!

 

Talk the Talk Word of the Day: Accomplice – A person who helps another person do something wrong or illegal.

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Jun6

The Kids Guide to Paper Airplanes

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The Kids Guide to Paper Airplanes

The Kids' Guide to Paper AirplanesIf you love airplanes, ask a grownup to take you to the Indianapolis Air Show at the Mt. Comfort Airport this weekend, June 5-7, 2009. On the website you can see all the different kinds of planes and activities that will be going on there. You can see the Blue Angels, historic airplanes and a lot more.

If you can’t go to the airshow and just love airplanes, try out some of the paper creations in this book. The directions are really clear with color photographs to help you make the folds correctly. The planes start out easy and get harder and harder as you move through the book. The last plane requires 18 folds! The author even includes some tips for getting these planes to fly far.

Another book you might like: Super Simple Paper Airplanes

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May31

Nic Bishop Butterflies and Moths

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Nic Bishop Butterflies and Moths

Butterflies and Moths

Nic Bishop, who also wrote Nic Bishop Spiders and Nic Bishop Frogs, has now turned his camera lens toward butterflies and moths. He continues to capture really amazing pictures of animals. You really have to see the rain forest caterpillar on page 16. When it’s scared, it flips its upper body over and puffs up its head so that it looks exactly like a poisonous snake – really. If you didn’t know it was a caterpillar you’d never guess.

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