Can’t Point At It: Junior Field Manual Junior Field Manual · A DET & CW Casebook · Ages 6–9

Wind, magnets, sound, smell, heat and static: eight hands-on cases about invisible things you can only know by what they do. Stand-alone, ages 6–9.

You can’t see the wind. You can’t see a magnet’s pull, or a sound, or a smell. So how do you know they’re there?

In Can’t Point At It, DET and his crow partner CW investigate invisible things by watching what they do. Every case starts with a short DET & CW story and ends with a simple experiment your child can try at the kitchen table.

What’s inside (8 cases):

•     Streamer Watch: where is the wind strongest?

•     Through or Not? Can a magnet pull through paper, cardboard, a book?

•     The Rice Drum: seeing sound jump

•     How far does a smell travel across a room?

•     The Ice Cube Race: sun versus shade

•     The dry paper towel: air takes up space

•     Balloon static and jumping paper

•     The Clue Wall: putting the invisible clues together

Every case has three parts:

•     The Case: a short read-aloud with a picture, three words to trace and two easy questions.

•     Field Work: one real hands-on activity using things from around the house.

•     My Own Case: a drawing page that turns the case toward your child’s own life. These pages are theirs to keep private.

Good to know:

•     33-page printable PDF, US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), black-and-white pages that print cleanly at home

•     Stand-alone: no other book needed (pairs nicely with The Falling Files)

•     Ages 6–9 (grades 1–3). Big print, tracing, drawing and short answers; drawing an answer always counts

•     Includes an “Open the Case” starter page, a word search, a Case Closed certificate, and a grown-up guide, “Things to Listen For,” with answers

•     Your download includes both a Canadian edition and a U.S. edition (spelling and a few examples differ)

•     Print for your own household or one classroom

From Perspective Detective Studios.

Observe. Investigate. Discover.