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| About This Book | |
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| Inquiry, Science, and Technology | |
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| Grade Tampering (Collecting and Comparing Fingerprints) | |
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| To Code or Not to Code (Interpreting and Writing Messages in Code) | |
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| Corroded Cans (Using Data to Relate Evidence to Explanation) | |
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| Being Hip to the Chip (Paint Chip Analysis) | |
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| Tricky Tools (Comparing a Tool Mark Cast to Suspect Tools) | |
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| Handwriting Hoax (Handwriting Analysis) | |
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| Putting the Wrong Foot Forward (Comparing Shoeprints) | |
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| Disorganized Data (Organizing Evidence in Sequence) | |
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| Earth Science | |
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| The Soil Evidence (Finding Evidence From the Soil) | |
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| Pointing Out Pollution (Collecting and Using Data to Detect Water Pollution) | |
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| Dirty Clues (Comparing Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Soil Samples) | |
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| Dirty Dave (Comparing Soil Samples from Different Locations) | |
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| The Sand-Trap Blues (Detecting Pure Sand or Sand Mixtures in Soil Samples) | |
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| Digging Up Clues (Comparing Locations of Soil Samples) | |
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| The Truth Is in the Proof (Comparing Heat-Retaining Qualities of Various Materials) | |
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| Life Science | |
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| A Hairy Situation (Hair Analysis--Human or Animal?) | |
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| Learning From Lipstick (Comparing Lip Print Patterns) | |
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| "Leafing" the Crime Scene (Comparing Characteristics of Leaves) | |
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| A Spooky Crook (Assembling a Human Skeleton) | |
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| Pharach's Femur (Using a Bone to Determine a Person's Height) | |
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| One Bite Too Many (Comparing Teeth Marks) | |
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| Leery of Labels (Determining Fat Content of Margarine) | |
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| DNA Net (Using DNA Evidence to Identify a Suspect) | |
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| Physical Science | |
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| Where Is Herman the Hamster? (Making a Rough Sketch of a Crime Scene) | |
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| Candy Capers (Separating Water-Soluble Food Eye Into Colors) | |
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| Stepping Into Crime (Analyzing Footprints to Determine Sequence of Events) | |
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| Fibers Don't Fib (Comparing Fibers) | |
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| You're in Deep Trouble (Conducting Tests on Synthesized Urine) | |
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| Guilty of Graffiti (Separating Colors of Water-Soluble Inks) | |
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| The Baffled Baker (Identifying Unknown Powders) | |
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| Glossary | |