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Higher education forensics laboratories
Forensic Science: Bertillon Measurement System Activity
This Bertillon Measurement System Activity will teach students about the Bertillon system of measurement (also known as Bertillonage) and anthropometry. Students like this activity because they get to collect data about themselves and their classmates. The activity includes two short readings, short answer questions, measurement directions, and a Bertillon Measurement card for students to record their data.* Requires a meter stick or ruler, string, and preferably calipers to take measurements.-
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Intro to Forensic Science Unit Bundle
Lab Activity Forensics Unit 3: Investigating a Crime Scene (Virtual Friendly)
In this lab, students will investigate a mock crime scene and evaluate a mock scenario. All resources you need are provided includingStudent lab sheetCrime scene processing formCrime scene sketch formCrime scene staging resourcesEvidence tagsUse this lab alone, with my Unit 3 Lesson Plan, or get the Complete Unit 3 Resource File that includes:Unit/Daily Lesson PlanUnit 3: PPTLab: Investigating a Crime SceneCrime Scene Setup Resources (images, scenario, sketch form, evidence processing form...)U
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Forensics Unit 3: The Crime Scene Bundle (6 Products!)
Phylogenetic Tree Cladogram Worksheet Genetic Taxonomy HIV Murder Activity
Phylogenetic Tree Cladograms Worksheet Genetic Taxonomy HIV Murder Activity: This phylogenetic tree worksheet is a paper genetics lab / taxonomy lab covering phylogeny. Students will draw a cladogram of the HIV virus in order to solve a real attempted murder case. This is a great DNA sequence activity for a Forensic Science Class! Optionally, students will then hold a criminal case and decide whether the attempted murder was committed.In this lab, students will sequence the HIV virus that the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Tool Marks Matching Lab
This 7 part, 12 page lab has tool mark matching, tire impressions, and shoe impressions. The students have to gather all of the evidence and decide which suspect is guilty.PART I - Students measure fractures on a skull made by a hammer. Next, they measure hammers seized in search warrants to match to the fractures. There is also an impression made on a wooden table for students to match to the hammers.PART II - Students measure and match 16 impressions made by screwdrivers and chisels to the
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Shoe & Tire Impressions Activity / Lab
This shoe/tire impression matching assignment/worksheet could be used as an activity or lab. It has seven cases.Case I, Case II, & Case II: students match a crime scene shoe impression to several suspects shoes.Case IV: Students are asked to identify six accidentals (unique marks) on a suspect's shoe.Case V: Similar to cases I,II, & III.Case VI: Students need to identify four accidentals and match them to prints found at the crime scene.Case VII: Students are asked to match tire impress
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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STR Analysis Lab/ Activity- Forensic DNA Analysis as done by the FBI
STOP LYING TO YOUR STUDENTS!Crime scenes are not solved with matching the bands in electrophoresis. STR analysis is the techniques used by the FBI and you can teach your students!In this activity, students will learn the concepts and techniques behind DNA profiling of core CODIS "Short Tandem Repeat" loci used for the national DNA databank. They will then have the opportunity to collect and interpret actual STR data.Designed for the upper class high school forensics (Jr or Sr) or introductory co
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Forensics Lab Activity: Investigating a Crime Scene
In this lab, students will investigate a mock crime scene and evaluate a mock scenario. All resources you need are provided includingStudent lab sheetCrime scene processing formCrime scene sketch formCrime scene staging resourcesEvidence tagsUse this lab alone, with my Unit 3 Lesson Plan, or get the Complete Unit 3 Resource File that includes:Unit/Daily Lesson PlanUnit 3: PPTLab: Investigating a Crime SceneCrime Scene Setup Resources (images, scenario, sketch form, evidence processing form...)U
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Forensics: Introduction to Cheiloscopy Student Activity
This activity introduces your students to forensic cheiloscopy, the study of lip prints. With this activity, students will identify lip print patterns, will match 10 suspect samples to unknown samples, and will determine "whodunit" by comparing a crime-scene sample to a known suspect. Teacher answer key is included!
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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DNA Fingerprinting - Who Killed Peter Rabbit
Poor Peter Rabbit, while gathering carrots and cabbages for breakfast, he is jumped from behind. The eye witness accounts are not enough to help police arest a suspect. Your students use the crime scene DNA evidence to construct a DNA profile. They use the profile to determine what the DNA evidence shows. This is a paper electrophoresis gel box and is based on an activity from a "Woodrow Wilson Intistute" acitvity name, "Where the CAT" I modified the DNA and created the story to solve a mur
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Forensics Handwriting Analysis - Autograph Authentication
Over the years, the attraction to celebrities and sports figures has grown exponentially, and as such, so has the demand for their autographs. As a matter of fact, autograph collecting has turned out to be a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Some individuals have their signatures sell for prices in excess of $1,000 to $10,000! With prices this high and an industry with this much popularity, many individuals have decided to forge these signatures in an attempt to make a quick buck. It is even
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Virtual Skull Lab - Comparing Male & Female Skulls (for remote or in-person)
This virtual skull lab contains everything you need to complete this activity with students. Students will learn to compare male and female skulls. In part 1, they will compare various traits and find the differences between male and female skulls. In part 2, they will identify skulls as male or female and use evidence from their part 1 lab to support their claims. This lab is ready to use! No prep! This lab can be used several ways:As a virtual lab for remote learningAs a makeup for an in
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Blood Typing Lab
Interactive Simulation Blood Typing Lab. Students use two different simulations to discover how blood is tested in a game-like environment. In the first simulation, students draw blood from their patient and test it for the A, B, and Rh antibodies. Next, they need to determine the blood type and have to decide which blood types are compatible because their patient needs a transfusion. In the second interactive simulation, the students have four patients to test for antibody reactions an
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Forensic Anthropology Unit 14.2 Lab & Worksheet: Classification of Human Bones
In this simple, but effect lab activity, students will be able to:(Objectives):1. Name the four main groups of bones based on shape.2. Identify the classification of major bones of the body. Materials Needed for this lab:Model of a human skeleton (optional)Student handoutText or notes on the classification of bones (optional) or Forensics Unit 14 PPT (optional)I love this lab because it helps my forensics students learn key skeletal system concepts in a simplified and condensed format. Teachers
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Forensics Unit 14 Resource Bundle: Human Remains (Forensic Anthropology)
Forensics Unit 14 Resource Bundle: Human Remains (Forensic Anthropology)
Make teaching Forensics easy with this complete Forensics Unit 14 Bundle that includes:Forensics Unit Plan 14: Human Remains (Forensic Anthropology)Forensics Unit 14 PPT: Human RemainsForensics Unit 14.1 All-in-One Lab Activity & Review Worksheet: Overview of the SkeletonForensics Anthropology Unit 14.2 All-in-One Lab Activity & Review Worksheet: Classification of Human BonesForensics Anthropology Unit 14.3 All-in-One Lab Activity and Review Worksheet: Human Bone StructureForensics Unit
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Blood Spatter Analysis II - Worksheet/Activity/Lab/Homework
This is another Blood Spatter Analysis worksheet thay can be used as an Activity, Lab, or Homework. It consists of four parts. In Part I, students view twenty pictures of blood spatter and classify as a Wipe, Swipe, Transfer pattern, Pool, Passive Drop, Cast-off, or Arterial Spurt. A short description is given of each spatter at the beginning. In Part II, students classify the Impact Spatter as Low, Medium, or High Velocity and have to determine what could have caused the spatter. A short
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Pelvic Bones: Male or Female? Activity Mini-Lab Worksheet
This worksheet coud be used as an activity, mini-lab, or homework assignment for Anatomy and/or Forensic Science (Anthropology) classes. The first page includes reference tables that the student can use to help differentiate between male and female pelvic bones. Besides identifying the bones as Male or Female, the students have to include at least one characteristic that helped them determine this. The 22 pictures and X-rays are from varying anatomical positions. The .word and .pdf
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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FORENSIC DNA LAB - MYSTERY OF THE RUBY ROYALE
This is a game-like interactive crime scene / crime lab simulation.Students collect evidence and process the evidence in virtual lab. At the end, the student takes the stand as an expert witness in a (mock) courtroom. Step-by-Step instructions with screen snips make it accessible to all kinds of learners, especially ELL. I included a .word file in case you want to make some of your own edits. .PDF, .WORD, and KEY included
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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T. rex Autopsy Worksheet for National Geographic Video
T. Rex Autopsy is a 2015 documentary airing on the National Geographic channel where a team of four paleontologists dissect a silicon replica of Tyrannosaurus. The four paleontologists were Tori Herridge, Stephen Brusatte, Matthew T. Mossbrucker and Luke Gamble, who is the lead anatomist. The T. rex was based on the most complete fossil, "Sue."This once-in-a-lifetime experiment offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore questions such as whether or not T. rex had feathers; how it fed with
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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MS-LS4-1
, HS-LS1-2
, MS-LS4-2
Biotechnology: Simulated Electrophoresis -The Case of the Missing Mona Lisa
Bring biotechnology into the classroom without expensive equipment and without the need to write grants. All you need is paper, scissors, and glue. Students will learn about restriction enzymes and electrophoresis. Within small cooperative groups they will perform a simulation of electrophoresis using paper. The results will lead them to the suspect. Engaging, fun, informative, easy to follow, and most of all, a bridge to understanding biotechnology.
Answer key is included.
Another great unit
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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AP Biology....A Case in Forensics (DNA Fingerprint Lab) PowerPoint & Lab Handout
This activity includes a 45-slide PowerPoint Presentation that sets up a mock crime scene for students. It coincides with Carolina Biological Supply Company's PCR Forensic Simulation Kit (Item #211212). The kit includes DNA from two suspects as well as evidence DNA. However, if budgets are tight and/or electrophoresis equipment is not available, the lab could be easily done as a "dry lab" without the use of DNA. Students will quickly become intrigued by the details of a local crime scene as they
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: AP Biology: A Year's Worth of Resources!
Crime Scene Diagram Analysis Activity/Lab
This can be used as an activity or lab and as independent or groupwork. Students examine three different crime scene diagrams. After each crime scene diagram, students are asked 8 - 10 questions. Ballastic and blood spatter reference tables are included. Word and pdf files are included in case you want to make your own edits. The first crime scene takes place in a den. Students use deductive reasoning to discover where the witness was sitting (noticing where the mug's handle was facin
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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VIRTUAL AUTOPSY LAB
This is a Virtual Online Autopsy Simulation Lab. The step-by-step procedure makes it easy to follow, especially for English Language Learners. A word file is included in case you want to make your own edits. An answer key is included. My students enjoyed this lab and I am sure yours will, too!
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Virtual Crime Scene Forensics Sketching Principles of Biomedical Science
Virtual Crime Scene Forensics Sketching Principles of Biomedical ScienceThis package includes the following: Easy and Ready-to-Print for any Forensics Crime Scene LabCrime Scene Page needs to be printed and given to students to measure using a ruler. 1 cm = 1 ft9 Additional Evidence slides (one per evidence piece) can be projected on the screen as you go over them in class.This is a great crime scene alternative if you don’t have the space or time to recreate a physical one in your classroom.Stu
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Tire Impressions Matching Activity II
This Activity could be used as a Mini-Lab, Worksheet, or Homework. The matching is a bit more challenging (than most activities like this) because the Crime Scene Impressions do not contain the entire track, just pieces of it. The first case contains 2 crime scene tracks and 18 suspect tracks. In the second case, students have to match 2 tire tracks at each crime scene from the 4 suspects cars (which all have 4 different tires). The third part is simply matching 9 full tires with their corre
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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