Have your students check out this project and find out how math and anthropology come together to solve crimes. 

If you want to learn all about forensics and how to solve mysteries and crimes using the science of forensics, take a virtual tour of this lab! You will meet the scientists, learn the…

For forensic scientists, any characteristic of people can give them clues, including a person’s handwriting.  Document examiners investigate handwriting to find out if documents are f…

Do your students think they can spot differences in photos? Well, let them try this one! Let your students learn all about change blindness with this fun activity! 

SMU CSI camps are for 6th and 7th grade students, and they are a ton of fun! There are four sessions of this camp, and applications are closing on April 24th!

In this unit, students take on the role of crime scene investigators to solve a murder that has occurred at the school. They will integrate math, science, and language arts into the s…

This fun experiment allows kids to see a glimpse of what chromatography, the study of different compounds, is about.

  Here are a few fun projects your kids can do that involve forensic investigation. They are intended as science projects, but they can do them at any time! Click on the link to…

Here are three fun projects that kids can do that involve forensic investigation. They include a forensic psychology experiment, a blood experiment, and an ink evidence experiment. Cl…

This project demonstrates how imprints are created. Students can learn how dinosaur (and other animal) tracks were formed through this fun project. 

In this video, your students can watch kids just like themselves building their own lie detectors, devices that measure physical changes in the body that might indicate when a person …

Have your students check out this project and find out how math and anthropology come together to solve crimes.  They will learn the answers to questions like, "If a forensic scientis…

Identifying evidence at a crime scene has to be done in a way that will allow people to use that evidence in court.  In this situation, a police officer found an unidentified white po…

Have your students ever wondered how smart their dogs are?  The girls in this video did, so they put their dogs to the test.  Have your students try out the tests on their own dogs, t…

Kids get to solve the crime of the barefoot burglar in this game. By clicking on the different areas in the kitchen, kids can scan for various clues that will point them to the correc…

Did you know that our brains are made up of two separate hemispheres and that each one interprets different types of data? Learn more about this and more in this interactive game abou…

This presentation teaches kids how to reconstruct a skull. Crime scene analysts will often have to reconstruct skeletal bones in order to figure out the identity of the victim. Click …

This game teaches kids how the interrogating process works when trying to pin a suspect for a crime. Click on the link to try this fun and interactive game.

Here's an activity where kids can learn how to extract ink from a secret message using various household items. Click on the link to find out more!

Who was the culprit that spread the flu and made everyone sick? Have your child figure it out by following the clues and inputting the data into the graph generator. Click on the link…

Here's an activity for kids that involves solving a solving a mystery .They are given documents to analyze and witness interview. They must deduce from the evidence who committed the …

Objective You will use trilateration to find the location of objects, just like how cell phone towers find your phone's position. Learn more about finding a location by reading Pho…

Background In this activity you will get to measure bones to figure out the height of the skeleton. It only takes one bone's measurement to apporixamate a person's height! Read Pal…

In this activity, kids can learn techniques on how to analyze a room for clues. Kids will learn how to inspect for clues like fingerprints or DNA samples.

Lead your students on a scavenger hunt through the International Spy Museum, where they will follow clues, solve problems, and decode messages hidden throughout -- just like real spies!

San Francisco's Exploratorium hosts this interactive online exhibit which allows students to examine the process of how, through investigation and observation, ideas and information b…

The Petroglyph National Monument has an online interactive program that teaches kids all about its petroglyphs. The program has questions throughout, and if they do well enough, they …