Forensic Science: Teach how to Sketch a Crime Scene
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Description
Students will be learning how, and then creating two crime scene sketches. One is provided in the resource as a simple aerial view of a crime scene (see it in the Preview!). The other scene students will create themselves! NO PREP! Download and use right away!
This resource is designed to be flexible, able to be used in class, or as a remote learning assignment.
Resource includes:
- Teachers Google Slide set - introduces the activity and provides examples and instructions for how to complete the activity
- Student Google Slide set - individual copies of the Student’s Google Slide can then be given so that students can complete the activity digitally
- Digital Crime Scene - can be used digitally or printed out and used in the classroom
- Thorough Teacher's Guide - tips for how to use digitally and in the classroom
The Google Slides provides detailed instructions and examples of how to create a crime scene sketch, so that students see and understand the process of measuring and documenting the evidence.
The crime scene provided on the student Google Slide includes a digital ruler! Students can move the ruler around the scene to take measurements which they record on their sketch.
When I first began teaching Forensics, I would send my students off to sketch a mock crime scene somewhere in my room or hallway. Inevitably, even after giving them verbal instructions and examples, they would be confused about how exactly to take measurements and draw the sketch.
So I began providing them with this printed out crime scene to practice with first (see it in the Preview!).
Giving students a printed (or digital) crime scene to sketch allows them to focus just on the skill of taking measurements and completing the sketch with all the needed information. You will also enjoy that (when in the classroom) students are all together in the room where they can ask questions - rather than spread out all over the building. As an added bonus, each student can do their own sketch (rather than groups) so you know for sure everyone in the room knows how to do it.
After the simple sketch of the digital scene, there are instructions for students to take it into the real world! They will create their own small mock crime scene and then sketch it. You will be amazed how much more confident they are with the real scene after sketching the digital scene!
The whole resource is editable!
This resource is part of the Unit 1: Forensics Basics! Here is the full list of the whole Unit!
- Crime Scene Processing: Teach your Forensics students the basics for how to secure and process a crime scene
- Evidence Collection: Students access a fun online Interactive crime scene and learn how to collect different types of evidence
- Learn to Sketch a Crime Scene: Fully digital, or for class, students learn the basics of how to create a crime scene sketch and are given two chances to practice their skills
- Forensic Photography:How to photograph a crime scene, learn and practice!
- Class vs. Individual Evidence: A fun, digital (or paper!) activity that teachers students how to identify the difference between Class and Individual forensic evidence
- Direct vs Circumstantial Evidence: Students learn the difference, and discover the unreliability of eyewitness testimony
- Crime Scene Processing Video Project: Students take on the role of CSI experts and apply all of their knowledge to making a Crime Scene Processing How-To video
- Review Game: A super fun whole-class review game that allows teams to compete against each other with some wacky twists and turns!
- Forensics Basics Unit Assessment: 25 Multiple choice questions on a self grading Google Form!
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Looking for more? Check out these other Forensic Science Resources from Science of Curiosity!
- Forensic Autopsy Report - help your students practice their skills as a Medical Examiner!
- Arson Investigation - NO PREP
- Blood Spatter Lab - Student centered, learn by doing
- Blood Typing Digital Lesson + Activity - NO PREP
- Forensic Files Video List - find the perfect Forensic Files video for every topic
- Forensic File Video Guide - FREE
- True Crime Book Project: Increase literacy in your Forensic Science Class!
- Murder In Miniature Forensics Project - students create their own crime scene diorama and then process the scene as an Investigator. Complete with full rubric, PowerPoint and photos of example projects
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