1. Crime Scene Creatures
Search Crime Scene Creatures- it is a PBS Nature activity
URL is
This will get you to the introduction and videos.
Do what is asked and answer the questions as you go along.

2. Read Introduction What is required by the investigators?
In what city is the body farm?

3. Videos- Click on Explore More from this Episode
Watch “Pig in a Blanket”
Watch “From Eggs to Maggots”
What did you like/learn and what did you not like. Explain your response in a couple of sentences.

4. Search the site for case files
Read each case and give me a 1 – 2 sentence response for each case.
Case 1- Insect Informants
Case 2- A grain of Truth
Case 3- Wooden Witnesses

5. Can you solve it? Search interactive death
Go to determine the time of death.
Pick 4 tools and list their role in forensic science.

6. List the 5 specimens you collected and why.
What info did each specimen tell you?

7. What does PMI stand for?
What did you determine it to be?
How did each specimen help you? Or not? Explain your findings.