Crime Scene Investigator
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Details
Summary
This high-profile career is described, including job tasks, expectations, and educational and personal preparation.
Specifications
- Author: Tamra b. orr
- Copyright: 2008
- Level: Grade 4 - Grade 8
- Dewey: 363.25
- BISAC: JNF030000
- Pages: 32
- Date Available: 2007-08-01
- Format: Hardcover (Reinforced binding)
- ISBN: 9781602790575
- Dimensions: 7.5 x 9.5
- Series: 21st Century Skills Library
- Subseries: Cool Science Careers
Leveling
- Accelerated Reader® Quiz: 117868
- Accelerated Reader® Reading Level: 6.4
- Accelerated Reader® Interest Level: Mg
- Accelerated Reader® Points: 0.5
Table of Contents
- DNA and Dotson
- Entering the Crime Scene
- Searching for Clues
- Applying the Equipment
- Looking into the Future
- Glossary
- For More Information
- Index
Reviews
Library Media Connection
Each book in this series, except Robot Scientist and Sound Engineer, begins with a historical narrative that illustrated how the Career has influenced daily life. These stories are good books for students and would be quite useful in book talking the titles. Each title proceeds to give a basic overview of the career. The books are not written in a cookie cutter fashion: some cover tools of the trade, others its impact on the future, and others walk the reader through a day in the life. Marginal asides include life and career skills, learning and innovation skills, and 21st century content. Each provides further insight into the career as well as posing thought-provoking questions that require the reader to apply higher level thinking skills. Illustrative photographs accompany the text and add to the books? visual appeal. The only drawback is that some vocabulary will be a stretch for readers and often the glossary uses advanced terms to define words.
Bibliography, Glossary, Index.
Recommended.
Amanda Jones, Library Media Specialist. Dominion Trail elementary, Ashburn, Virginia
Contributors
Author: Tamra B. Orr
Tamra Orr is a full-time writer and author living in the gorgeous Pacific Northwest. She loves her job because she learns more about the world every single day and then turns that information into pop quizzes for her patient and tolerant children (ages 16, 13, and 10). She has written more than 80 nonfiction books for people of all ages, so she never runs out of material and is sure she’d be a champion on Jeopardy!