Introduction

CSI Rockville
	Copyright 1997 Linda Ferguson and Eva LaMar
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Welcome we have been investigating our community and our world!
		Attention CSI Members Needed: On the left our class is working in the field on the cemetery investigation. The QTVR is set to rotate automatically. You can control it by placing a mouse on it and holding down the click. Then you can look at anything you want. What did we discover? More answers later! All QuickTime Virtual Reality photos, digital photos, and movies are student produced unless otherwise noted. Our teachers, Mrs. La Mar, Mrs. Ferguson and Mrs. Jenness gave us a choice. "If you decide to join your unit will be assigned to investigate the disappearance of valuable information in your local cemetery. Is it a crime? Is it due to erosion, weathering, vandalism, and general neglect or….? This case now involves hundreds of investigation units across the country. Documentation is essential." We decided to go for training at CSI We would choose what we wanted to investigate and then put all of our information together into a web site. Could we find answers and fully document our discoveries? We needed tools and training. We divided into teams. Our teams of photographers, scientists, mathematicians, writers, web masters, parents, community members, researchers, editors, and experts went to work. This is our story.

Our assignment from the web quest was, "This is where your group of Cemetery Scientific Investigators (CSI) comes in! Your CSI Team will become scientific and historic investigators by investigating not only the headstones, the biographies of those buried, the flora, fauna, (bugs included), geology, topography, architecture and cemetery layout. Your tools will be numerous.

You will be documenting your local cemetery with the latest digital equipment including Ground Positioning System (GPS) devices, video, and digital cameras. Your job will be to log specific information and photograph each headstone for analysis.

What will you do with all of your investigative data? You will be analyzing, organizing, and presenting it on your own web site as well adding parts to a national database. This is no simple headstone-rubbing visit to the cemetery! Get ready to break out the scientific gear and engage the problem-solving brain-waves!"