SCIENCE DETECTIVE - 5 hour program, sets of 5, $30/student
Science Detective is a Champions Science Adventures® club where children investigate a mysterious disappearance. They will spend five clubs utilizing the science of forensics, chromatography, chemistry, and fingerprint analysis to unravel this mystery and find out who stole the missing ice cream recipe, and then develop a plan for how to get it back!

A Crime is Committed – The children begin to solve the Ice Cream Mystery by carefully analyzing their campsite. Children look for clues and collect evidence that the person who stole the ice cream recipe may have left behind. After the children get the hang of using some simple detective tools, they learn how to write coded messages to keep the clues top secret.

On the Write Track – Holding ice cream for ransom is a sticky situation. The children investigate chromatography and use it to eliminate one person who could have left the ransom note in the bottle from their suspect list. Chromatography is a technique for separating two or more chemicals that become mixed together. Children use chromatography to make their own Chromatogram Critter.

Powder Puzzler – As forensic scientists, the children learn about acids and bases and how to use color-changing acidity indicators to identify different types of chemicals. All chemicals have certain distinct identifying characteristics and acidity is the characteristic that gives children a clue today. Children analyze the powders collected from the three remaining suspects and test each powder's acidity to scientifically clear another suspect's good name.

Fingerprint Finale – Sometimes the only thing bandits leave behind at crime scenes is the oily traces from the tips of their fingers. The suspect may think they left nothing behind, but people have unique patterns of ridges on their fingers that may be used to identify them: fingerprints. Children learn the basics of dermatoglyphics and use them to identify the culprit and solve the Ice Cream Mystery!

Mystery Solved – The children have solved the Ice Cream Mystery and have the recipe back! Today, they will examine the principles of thermodynamics, or heat energy, to explain how Gizabelle’s recipe works. After the lesson, the children will be able to show how salt lowers the freezing point of water by making ice cream.

For more information and prices regarding our Champions Science Adventures Classroom Kits, please contact Heather Sporrer, 303-526-3387 or hsporrer@klcorp.com