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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDem Bones Forensic Resurrection of a Skeleton
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Public Services, Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living Things, History-Social Science and 4 additional..In this case study, a forensic anthropologist must determine the age and sex as well as look for signs of trauma to a skeleton f...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Headache to Die For A Case Study in Forensic Science
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Public Services, Professional Development, Current ScienceThis case, based on an actual case of product tampering that occurred in Seattle in 1986, was designed for use in an introductor...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Do We Tell the Sheriff? Determining Minimum Numbers of Individuals (MNI) for a Scatter of Human Bones
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Public Services, Professional Development, History-Social Science, Current Science, HumanitiesStudents explore the issues involved in investigating and reporting on a scatter of skeletal remains to the police in this case ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Newton's First Law of Motion
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, People in Science, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Physics and 4 additional..NBC's Lester Holt looks at Newton's First Law of Motion and the role that unbalanced forces play whenever a ball carrier goes he...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Case of the Druid Dracula: Clicker Case Version
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Public Services, Biochemistry, Professional Development, Current Science and 2 additional..This clicker case is a modified version of another case in our collection by the same name. It uses a PowerPoint presentation ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Case of the Druid Dracula
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Biochemistry, Public Services, Professional Development, Life Sciences and 2 additional..This case is based on a lurid crime featured on the BBC program Crimewatch in December 2001 that was solved thanks to forensic D...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBurning Down the House A Case Study in Forensic Instrumental Analysis
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Public Services, Professional Development, Chemistry, Current ScienceIn this lab-based case, arson investigator Marie Stanforth comes under suspicion when her ex-husband dies in a fire. Students ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Art of Crime Detection
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Visual Arts, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Instructional Strategies, History-Social Science and 3 additional..This Web site gives you information about how a professional illustrators, in particular, a police sketch artist can draw a like...Contributor: Fun Works . . . for Careers You Never Knew ExistedViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Classic Case of Serial Murder Forensics Meets Photonics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Public Services, Professional Development, Chemistry, Physics and 2 additional..In this case study, a newly appointed medical examiner uncovers an unusual trend in drowning cases, which she suspects may be th...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Engineering & Design, Visual Arts, Mathematics and 7 additional..Welcome to ASCAP, one of the oldest and biggest organizations of its kind. ASCAP represents composers, songwriters, lyricists an...Contributor: Fun Works . . . for Careers You Never Knew ExistedViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWeevils
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Classification, Nature & Method of Science, Structure and Function in Living Things and 5 additional..Use this life science investigation as a science fair project idea for your elementary or middle school science fair! Then tell ...Contributor: DragonflyTV (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAccidental Drowning or Foul Play?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Public Services, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Current ScienceThis case was developed for use in the first semester of a sophomore organic chemistry laboratory to illustrate how a combinatio...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWork in Sports
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: No subjects selected.This is a profile of Sports lawyer Kristen Kuliga who represents several athletes including Doug Flutie, a former Patriots player.Contributor: Fun Works . . . for Careers You Never Knew ExistedViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Case of Mistaken Memory? The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Public Services, Psychology, History-Social Science, Current ScienceThis case explores the fundamental principles of memory, eyewitness accuracy, and police questioning techniques in witness ident...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDinosaurs
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Chemistry, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Engineering & Design, Earth's Resources and 7 additional..By looking at the little fossils, these two scientists are able to learn more about the big picture and gain a better understand...Contributor: DragonflyTV (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRivers
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Chemistry, Geography, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 8 additional..These young science expand on what they learned at a museum by exploring rivers themselves!Contributor: DragonflyTV (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSinkholes
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Geography, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Life Sciences and 9 additional..Sink your teeth into learning about how sinkholes formContributor: DragonflyTV (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAgents of Change
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Sports and Competition, Finance & Business, Education, Child Development & Family ServicesThis article is written by a journalist who specializes in analyzing the NBA (National Basketball Association). It gives you a g...Contributor: Fun Works . . . for Careers You Never Knew ExistedViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThinking of moving out of the lab and into a career in patent law?
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Finance & Business, Life Sciences, Education, Child Development & Family Services, ScienceRead about Reinhilde Schoonjans, woman scientist from the Netherlands who turned to patent law.Contributor: Fun Works . . . for Careers You Never Knew ExistedViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWacky Patent of the Month
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Finance & Business, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Engineering & Design, ScienceRead about some of the strange and wonderful things people have come up with. Click around this site to learn a little about the...Contributor: Fun Works . . . for Careers You Never Knew ExistedViews: 0Favorites: 0