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Handwriting and Forgery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils determine how forensics analyze handwriting samples. In this physical science lesson, students research how handwriting analyses help solve their assigned cases. They prepare a skit and present it in class.
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Science 4 Inquiry

The Last Supper: Identifying Macromolecules

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why do medical examiners always state the contents of a person's stomach? Scholars learn about the importance of macromolecules through a case study of stomach contents. They perform multiple tests to determine a conclusion before they...
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Using Plant Pigments to Link a Suspect to a Crime

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use chromatography to separate plant pigments collected from a fictitious crime scene and suspects. They compare the Rf values of the plant pigments to determine whether the plant pigments found on any of the suspects...
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Crime Scene Investigation - Biology Teaching Thesis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the different blood types, and are introduced to new knowledge through a crime scene simulated activity. They explore the genetics of blood types, and are introduced to immunology/diseases.
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DNA Fingerprinting

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the process of DNA Fingerprinting and how DNA Fingerprinting is used in solving crimes. They examine a crime scenario that involves collecting DNA Fingerprinting information from blood collected at the crime scene. They...
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Fingerprinting Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners recover latent prints by iodine fuming, cyanoacrylate fuming, and dusting with powder, after a lecture/discussion on fingerprinting techniques. They each provide a fingerprint for identification by another student. A database of...
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Bloodstain Pattern Simulations: A Physical Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students receive bloodstain pattern evidence from a crime scene. They answer a series of questions through inquiry, observation, measurement, and analysis. Pupils complete this challenge, by reconstructing the evidence through four...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Properties of Minerals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the basic building blocks of our planet.  In this minerals lesson students begin the process of forensics on the basis of investigation and drawing conclusions from observations. 
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DNA

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the basics of DNA and its history.  In this DNA lesson students extract DNA from fruits and understand how it is used in forensics.
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Blood, I Presume?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explain the value of blood in trials.  In this DNA lesson students work together to collect and share information and ideas that they come up with after learning how to distinguish blood from other stains. 
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Fingerprinting

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students list and describe the three types of fingerprint patterns. They list and describe three layers of fingerprints that can be made. They explain why we leave fingerprints.
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Innocent or Guilty: A Lab on DNA Gel Electrophoresis

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students use the prelab as an introduction to the importance of DNA fingerprinting- a form of identification that us being accepted by both scientific and leagl experts. They prepare a gel for electrophoresis. DNA fragments, which have...
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Human Fingerprints: No Two The Same

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners will be offered numerous opportunities to further enhance their observational skills as well as the integration of math with their continual exposure to the metric system, measurement, and graphing to represent their data....
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Who's Who and How Do You Know for Sure?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate the applications of DNA fingerprinting, They read crime scenarios and using the details of the crime and laboratory experimentation decide the suspects guilt or innocence.
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Coat Caper

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine pollen and fibers taken from a garment. They analyze pollen from new hybrids and compare it to the samples from the garment then make individual conclusions concerning the specific historical authenticity of the garment.
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Density of Glass Fragments

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore how the density of an object is determined and determine what a "physical property" is. They demonstrate how science can be applied to police work.
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National First Ladies' Library

Science: The Purloined Letter

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine Edgar Allan Poe's "the Purloined Letter" from the perspective of a profiler. To sharpen search procedures, they examine the text and make lists of items and places in the house that were searched. Then students discuss...
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Lewis and Clark in Columbia River Country

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this research skills lesson, students research the death of Meriwether Lewis using forensic evidence presented in primary...
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Ink Analysis and Thin Layer Chromatography

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explain the process of TLC. They identify at least three components of ink. They analyze data and make conclusions based on laboratory observations.
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DNA: The Human Body Recipe

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students describe DNA and the roles in which engineers are involved with the human body.  For this DNA lesson students participate in a class demonstration. 
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Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson Plan 2: PCR and DNA Diagnosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss the importance of the Polymerase Chain Reaction for biologists. They explain what factors make the Polymerase Chain Reaction possible. Students explain the steps in thermocycling and what happens during each step.
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Last Flight of Bomber 31

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students act as forensic scientists to help solve a long-standing missing persons case. They study nuclear DNA and mtDNA.
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Biology: Howler Monkeys Tell All

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine a PBS special about howler monkeys as an introduction to scientific forensic investigative methods. In groups, they conduct a host of experiments containing clues which point to discovery. By challenging assumptions,...
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What Does That DNA Molecule Really Look Like???

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students extract DNA from animal liver cells. They separate, collect and describe the appearance from the extracted DNA while role playing as an intern in a city's forensics.

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