Forensic Science Kit: Pooch Sleuths

Solve the mystery of missing dogs with the Forensic Science Kit: Pooch Sleuths. This kit includes real forensic tests and fun activities that will teach you how to use footwear impression casting and thief detection powder to identify a perpetrator.

The Pooch Sleuths Kit includes everything you need to analyze evidence and track down the culprit. Use real forensic tests to make casts of shoeprints and capture impression evidence. Identify the perpetrator using ultraviolet light and fluorescent theft powder

• Use footprint casting materials to collect multiple footwear impressions
• Use theft detection materials to find a culprit using non-staining, glowing powder.
• Visit the Pooch Sleuths Case website to follow a group of young detectives known as the Kudzu Kids as they look for clues, talk to witnesses, and use shoeprint casting and theft powder to solve the fictional mystery of their town’s missing dogs.
• The kit includes casting stone, casting compound, casting frame, fluorescent theft powder, applicator brushes, UV lights, directions, and online case files and tutorials.

The Forensic Science Kit: Pooch Sleuths – Classroom includes materials for 20 students

• Footprint collection
  • Twenty single-use packs of Traxtone plaster, used to collect shoeprints in dirt or from casting medium
  • Five 21-oz bags of reusable Shape-it casting medium, used to collect footwear impressions from suspects
  • Twenty reusable casting frames
  • Five spatulas
• Thief detection
  • Five 1-oz packs of invisible fluorescent thief detection powder
  • Five 400nm ultraviolet lights
  • Five powder applicator brushes

The Pooch Sleuths Case Files

• In the online Pooch Sleuths Case Files, follow a group of young detectives known as the Kudzu Kids as they look for clues, talk to witnesses, and use shoeprint casting and theft powder to solve the fictional mystery of their town’s missing dogs.
• Includes videos, quizzes, and exclusive access to the case solution.
• View the case files in your web browser on desktop or mobile.

Tablet not included in kit.