Curated OER
DNA Fingerprinting
Students discuss methods used by forensic scientists and the basics of DNA and how it can be used to identify an individual after reading an article from The New York Times.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Dead Men's Tales: Splatter Spread
Emulate the work of a forensic scientist by observing the relationship between scatter and distance. Assemble a projectile-hurling device called a potato cannon and analyze the spread pattern of paint soaked projectiles.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Dead Men's Tales: Inferring Height From Bone Length
Explore the work of forensic scientists by inferring an individual's height from the length of certain long bones. Create bone/height relation charts and measure length using metric units. This activity was created to be used with the...
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech: Precision Without Accuracy in Crime Scenes
A police forensics scientist discusses how precision will muddy the true accuracy of a crime scene. Interesting stuff. A new real world look at precision and accuracy.