National Standards for Grades 2-6
 
Hold all of your student detectives spellbound with a mystery at the mall. Elementary Crime Solving teaches young students to use scientific process to solve everyday problems. They learn to solve a crime (the problem) through observation, reasoning, and experimentation. Includes hair and fiber evidence, fingerprints, blood types, and personal profiles full of clues and circumstantial evidence. Students work as a team to decide who they believe stole the merchandise, then scrutinize their suspect considering the official police evidence. Allow two hours of lab time. Designed for 24 students working in groups of four.
 
Required, but not included:
microscope
water bath
distilled water
glass test tubes with stoppers