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Pre & Post Visit Materials
CSI: Crime Scene Insects
Learn the secrets of crime solving bugs. The Miami Science Museum offers visitors a rare opportunity to learn more about the mysterious world of crime scene investigation with its new exhibit, CSI: Crime Scene Insects. The exhibit dives into forensic entomology, the use of insects such as flies, maggots and beetles to reveal critical details of a crime scene, a fascinating practice that plays a vital role in solving a variety of crimes. CSI: Crime Scene Insects opens June 6th and runs through January 2010.
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- American Board of Forensic Entomology
Forensic Entolmology is the science of determining a time frame and/or circumstance from the empirical evidence of insect activity on or around the site in question.
- Forensic Science Resources
Provided by the Tennessee Criminal Law Defense Resources, this site provides definitions and web site links for many fields within the broad umbrella of forensic investigations.
- FBI Handbook of Forensic Science
This handbook provides guidance and procedures for safe and efficient methods of collecting and preserving evidence and to describe the forensic examinations performed by the FBI Laboratory.
- Decomposition
Describes the natural biological process that occurs after death. Body changes, insect interaction, decomposition, and forensic evidence. Please note: this site contains graphic images and descriptions.
- Human Decomposition After Death
Expert online discussion with Dr. Trisha Macnair courtesy of BBC Health.
- Entomology for Kids and Teachers
This University of Kentucky Entomology Department site is designed for teachers and young students. Basic insect information, resources and related activities are found here.
- Insects and Entomology
Entomology index of Internet resources, Iowa State University; VanDyk, J.K. and Bjostad, L.B.
- Entomology Science Education
Great website for bug enthusiasts!
- Stages of Decomposition
An extension to the cite noted above; contains a movie clip showing an animal at various points of decomposition.
Please note: this site contains graphic images that may not be appropriate for some young children.
Charlie and Kiwi’s Evolutionary Adventure
Join Charlie as he travels back in time to the age of the dinosaurs to discover the kiwis’ ancestors and evidence for how evolution works. Charlie and Kiwi’s Evolutionary Adventure is an original, focused experience that invites visitors to:
- see evidence of evolutionary connections between dinosaurs and birds
- enjoy the story of Charlie, whose curiosity leads to his understanding of how evolution works
- engage in activities about variation, inheritance, selection, time and adaptation, key evolutionary concepts
The exhibition is organized into three parts:
- Story Theater
Charlie and Kiwi’s adventure unfolds in an intimate theater on a giant digital storybook screen. Audiences travel back in time during the 12-minute video, Charlie and the Very Odd Bird, joining Charlie and his great, great, great, great grandfather as they discover how and why the flightless kiwi is still a bird. Through the charming drawings of Peter Reynolds, award winning illustrator of “Judy Moody” and other children’s books, visitors see how Charlie comes to understand the origins of birds and why they are all so different from each other.
- Exhibits
The exhibition invites visitors to see evidence thatdinosaurs are the ancestors of modern birds by viewingthe homologous bones of a bambiraptor (a dinosaur),an archaeopteryx (one of the first birds) and a moderncrow. A computer-based interactive allows visitors tospeed up time so they can see the evolution of birdshappen with their own eyes. Fun puzzles show how birdshave adapted to a variety of environments.One exhibit includes an assortment of living birds of the samespecies. Visitors observe the slight differences between thebirds by examining the colors, shapes and sizes of their beaks,legs, and feet. Variations like these in natural populations arethe source of evolution by natural selection.
- Discovery Area
Through a variety of discovery boxes, visitors play games,work puzzles and participate in hands-on activities that enhanceunderstanding of evolutionary concepts while providingmeaningful, multigenerational, minds-on play.
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