Forensic Science: Fundamentals & Investigations, 3rd Student Edition, Volume 2
By Anthony J. Bertino, Patricia Bertino
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With popular television programs, movies, and books about criminal justice and crime scene investigation, students often have a passion for exploring forensic science. Now that excitement can be guided into valuable learning experiences with the help of Forensic Science: Fundamentals & Investigations, 3e. This dynamic, visually powerful text has been carefully crafted to ensure solid scientific content and an approach that delivers precisely what is needed for high school courses. Now an established best-seller, Forensic Science: Fundamentals & Investigations offers a truly experiential approach that engages students in active learning and emphasizes the application of integrated science. Student materials combine math, chemistry, biology, physics, and earth science with content aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. Capstone projects integrate the concepts learned throughout the text. Comprehensive, time-saving teacher support and lab activities deliver exactly what is needed to ensure that students receive a solid, integrated science education that keeps readers engaged at all learning levels. Supported by MindTap with an eBook, online assessments, Interactive Labs, and Virtual Labs, students learn content and practice skills like real forensic scientists.
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About this product
With popular television programs, movies, and books about criminal justice and crime scene investigation, students often have a passion for exploring forensic science. Now that excitement can be guided into valuable learning experiences with the help of Forensic Science: Fundamentals & Investigations, 3e. This dynamic, visually powerful text has been carefully crafted to ensure solid scientific content and an approach that delivers precisely what is needed for high school courses. Now an established best-seller, Forensic Science: Fundamentals & Investigations offers a truly experiential approach that engages students in active learning and emphasizes the application of integrated science. Student materials combine math, chemistry, biology, physics, and earth science with content aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. Capstone projects integrate the concepts learned throughout the text. Comprehensive, time-saving teacher support and lab activities deliver exactly what is needed to ensure that students receive a solid, integrated science education that keeps readers engaged at all learning levels. Supported by MindTap with an eBook, online assessments, Interactive Labs, and Virtual Labs, students learn content and practice skills like real forensic scientists.
Carefully crafted and visually powerful, this best-selling program ensures solid scientific content and an approach that delivers precisely what students need in a high school course
Balances extensive scientific concepts with hands-on classroom and lab activities, readings, intriguing case studies, and chapter-opening scenarios
MindTap Virtual Labs and Interactive Labs give students real-world lab experience in a virtual environment
Student material combines math, chemistry, biology, physics, and earth science content clearly identified by icons and correlated to standards like NGSS or CCSS
Table of contents
- 1. Forensic Science and Observation
- 2. Crime Scene Investigation and Evidence Collection
- 3. Hair Analysis
- 4. Fiber Analysis
- 5. Forensic Botany
- 6. Fingerprint Analysis
- 7. DNA Profiling
- 8. Blood and Blood Spatter
- 9. Forensic Toxicology
- 10. Handwriting Analysis, Forgery, and Counterfeiting
- 11. Forensic Entomology
- 12. Death: Manner, Mechanism, Cause
- 13. Soil Examination
- 14. Forensic Anthropology
- 15. Glass Evidence
- 16. Casts and Impressions
- 17. Tool Marks
- 18. Firearms and Ballistics
- Capstone Projects:
- Project 1 Physical Evidence: Case Studies
- Project 2 Personal Evidence Portfolio
- Project 3 How Reliable is the Evidence?
- Project 4 Acceptance of Evidence: Landmark Cases
- Project 5 Forensic Science on TV: Analyzing a Show Episode
- Project 6 Forensic Dumpster Diving: What Garbage Can Tell Us
- Project 7 Crime Scene Development and Processing (Mock)
- Project 8 How to Read Calipers
- Project 9 Gravesite Excavation
- Project 10 Career Exploration
- Glossary/Glosario
- Appendix A - Table of Sines
- Appendix B - Table of Tangents
- Appendix C - Celsius–Fahrenheit Conversion Table
- Index
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