They use visual and microscopic observation, UV light, chromatography, replicating techniques, and wet chemistry to detect forgeries of checks, documents, and messages.

Introduce students to qualitative analysis in the intriguing context of criminal investigation in a Toxicology Laboratory. 

Introduce students to six standard fingerprinting techniques used for dusting, lifting, and developing prints from smooth, nonporous surfaces.

Kemtec’s Analysis of Minerals & Soils kit now extends the student’s experience from investigating the physical and chemical properties of trace evidence from a crime scene, to learning to...

Art Forgery adds excitement to art, chemistry, or general science classrooms. Students apply scientific observation and reasoning for a practical use, utilizing chemical, physical, and...

Explore how physics can play a role in criminal investigation.

 Learn how luminol is used in scenes like this everyday. 

Use your forensic techniques to solve the crime of the missing frogs from the biology classroom. Four possible suspects have been identified by the authorities. Use fingerprints, hair...

Students work through six experiments using math skills, biology, chemistry, problem solving, and deductive reasoning to determine whether the cabin is the crime scene

This murder mystery provides inquiry based learning with an intriguing twist. Students apply many CSI techniques including fingerprinting (dusting with carbon powder, dusting with aluminum...

This kit has been designed to introduce students to the concepts of fabric and fiber analysis. Experiments in this kit cover the areas of cloth weave identification, microscopic fiber analysis,...

Learn to identify and classify different types of fingerprints. Students will learn how to identify different types of fingerprints and distinguishing characteristics, as well as dusting for...

Help solve the crime using thin-layer chromatography to separate the ink on the ransom note and ink found in markers tied to possible suspects.

Everyone who ate the school cafeteria’s chili became ill. Could someone have tainted the chili? You are a forensic toxicologist. It is you and your classmates’ task to determine if any of the...

Discover how forensic scientists use hair to assist in solving crimes. You will discover the differences between human and animal hair as well as differences among different types of human hair....

Often times, when collecting evidence at a crime scene, investigators may recover substances they are unable to identify in the field. Along with evidence such as fingerprints, hair, fibers,...

Part chemistry, part biology, and part physical science, forensics is the investigation of a crime using a full range of scientific knowledge or methods. 

Students get a real feel for what it takes to be a modern-day detective in this basic introduction to forensic science.