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Neo Sci Fingerprinting - A Forensic Puzzle Lab

Apply the scientific method using actual FBI techniques

Your class will enjoy applying the scientific method and their problem-solving skills to solve a mystery! Using fingerprints lifted from a fictional crime scene, the students become forensic scientists and learn the proper techniques to make, observe, analyse and classify fingerprints according to the FBI's actual classification system. Includes everything needed to solve the mystery, including revolutionary Neo/SCI "Ink-less" fingerprint cards which can easily - and cleanly! - create fingerprints for analysis.

Includes:

  • Teacher's Guide (16 pages)
  • Student's Guide (16 pages)
  • Dusting brush
  • Evidence bags (10)
  • Graphite
  • Inkless Fingerprinting Cards (50)
  • Magnifying glasses (10)
  • Marking Pencil
  • Microscope Slides
  • Gloves
  • Small cup
  • Transparent tape
  • Tray
  • White Index cards (50)

(Suitable for a class of up to 40 students.)