GUIDEBOOK LINKS
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 6
Document examinations
Lesson 12
These are just your starting points! Go anywhere from here!
BOOK LIST
This is here as a courtesy only. No books are required for the unit. Some of these books may contain errors about the event or time period.
Customers may also write in and suggest to add books to this list. All lists come recommended to us by others and have not all been vetted by us. If you have any suggestions to add to this list, please email in so we can do so. Some of these books may contain more mature themes or theology or other educational teachings that we do not necessarily endorse, so we advise all parents to screen for content and personal beliefs. Books can also be sub-categorized into different age groups, so feel free to jump around!
Murder on the Orient Express (Parental Warning) by Agatha Christie
Aggie Morton Mystery Queen by Marthe Jocelyn
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Father Brown Series by GK Chesterton (There is also a reader version available for younger students)
The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
Code of Silence by Tim Shoemaker (Parent warning: mention of sex offender registry and some violence)
In the Hall with the Knife: A Clue Mystery by Dana Peterfreund (mild profanity)
The Secret Keeper by Treton Lee Stewart
The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day
The Red Palace by Jane Hur (Mentions of concubines as a way of life-not graphic in nature)
SUPPLIES LIST
Lesson 1: Items around home
Lesson 2: Items around home
Lesson 3: charcoal powder or baby powder or cornstarch or fingerprint powder (online), index cards or construction paper, tape, wide brush (like an oversized makeup brush or fingerprinting brush).
Lesson 4/5:
Option 1: Wheatgerm, dish soap, ethyl alcohol, glass containers and/or tubes/graduated cylinder
Lesson 6: Nothing extra
Lesson 7: Items around home
Lesson 8/9: Bones (optional, such as from chicken)
Lesson 10/11: Items around home
https://nij.ojp.gov/nij-hosted-online-training-courses/collecting-dna-evidence-at-property-crime-scenes/types-of-evidence
https://nij.ojp.gov/nij-hosted-online-training-courses/collecting-dna-evidence-at-property-crime-scenes/module-overview
https://nij.ojp.gov/nij-hosted-online-training-courses/types-of-evidence/collecting-dna-evidence-at-property-crime-scenes/evidence-found-crime-scenes
https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-investigate/laboratory-division
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/178280.pdf
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/evaluation-swab-materials-forensic-dna-testing-systematic-review
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/direct-comparison-body-fluid-identification-technologies
https://www.nist.gov/spo/forensic-science-standards-program/trace-evidence-collection-crime-scene-investigation-guide
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/219941.pdf
https://www.nist.gov/forensic-science
https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/crime-scene-investigation-guide-law-enforcement
https://le.fbi.gov/science-and-lab/biometrics-and-fingerprints/biometrics/latent-prints
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/study-reports-error-rates-bloodstain-pattern-analysis
https://forensicscience.ufl.edu/bloodstain-pattern-analysis
https://nij.ojp.gov/taxonomy/term/blood-stain-patterns
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/219941.pdf
https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/crime-scene-investigation-guide-law-enforcement
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528260/
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/applying-modern-investigation-methods-solve-cold-cases
https://nij.ojp.gov/nij-hosted-online-training-courses/types-of-evidence/collecting-dna-evidence-at-property-crime-scenes/evidence-found-crime-scenes
https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/toward-locards-exchange-principle-recent-developments-forensic-trace-evidence
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/trace-evidence
https://forensicscience.ufl.edu/2022/10/14/trace-evidence-the-role-in-forensic-science/
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/improving-analysis-trace-dna-evidence
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/overview-impression-and-pattern-evidence
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/equipment-needed-crime-scene-investigation
https://nij.ojp.gov/nij-hosted-online-training-courses/what-every-law-enforcement-officer-should-know-about-dna
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/231977.pdf
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8503.pdf
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/laboratory/quick-reference-guide-for-laboratory-examinations_re-updated-4_2016.pdf/view
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/forensic-microbiome-invisible-traces-we-leave-behind
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/233981.pdf
https://ncpro.sog.unc.edu/manual/641-1
