Downloadable pdf: Forensic Science Hypothetical - The Burglary in Sutton Street

Bring science alive with practical extended projects in which students ’play detectives’ to solve a crime based on evidence.

Using scientific investigation skills, students complete tasks that help them to reach a logical conclusion. Both scenarios have been rigorously tested in schools by the author, and do not require any previous study of forensic science as introductory activities are included. These books are ideal for science option subjects, extension tasks, or for when course work is completed and teachers need to keep students motivated.

- Recording shoe prints and tyre marks

- Inspecting hairs, fibres and handwriting evidence

- Using chromatography to compare inks

- Crime scenes and the examination of them

- Witness statements

- The skills of taking fingerprints and eliminating suspects using prints

- Handwriting analysis

- Forensic laboratories

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