Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Not So Snappy 4

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, young scholars work out the word problems in an attempt to use the skills of logic and deduction to arrive at the correct solution.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Using the Prefixes 're' and 'non'

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this prefixes learning exercise, students complete 3 activities that enhance their understanding of words that contain the prefixes 're' and 'non.'
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Other

Crime Scene Investigator: Searching and Examining a Major Case Crime Scene

For Students 9th - 10th
An engrossing explanation of the appropriate behavior needed at a major crime scene. What should be done with the body? How is photography handled? What about fingerprinting? How are curious onlookers dealt with? The answers to the...
Handout
Other

Crime Scene Investigator: Evidence Collection Guidelines

For Students 9th - 10th
A list of specific types of evidence that could be collected from a crime scene. Links to methods for collecting the following kinds of evidence: blood stains, seminal stains, hair, fibers and threads, glass, paint, flammable liquids,...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Crime Science Investigation

For Students 9th - 10th
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will learn the basic components of a crime scene investigation and how they are implemented. You will also learn various evidence collecting techniques, as well as how to properly document...
Article
Other

Crime Scene Investigation: Protecting the Crime Scene

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief but informative site examines how a crime scene should be protected with emphasis on the role of the first officer(s) to arrive. Points are made about the arrival of additional personnel, eating and drinking at the crime...
Article
Other

Crime Scene Investigator: Practical Methods for Processing a Vehicle

For Students 9th - 10th
Practical methods are suggested to secure and not contaminate any evidence found in a vehicle at a crime scene.
Website
PBS

Pbs: Nature: Crime Scene Creatures

For Students 3rd - 8th
Become a detective with this interactive crime scene! Use tools and animals at the crime scene to help you determine the time of death of the body. By collecting specimens at the scene, students try to determine how long the person has...
Activity
Other

Crime Scene Investigator: Developing and Lifting Footwear Impressions

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough explanation of how to make a footwear impression at a crime scene. Topics include equipment needed, the technique used, documentation, personal safety, and more.
Handout
Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech: Precision Without Accuracy in Crime Scenes

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Article
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Photos From the Scene of the Crime

For Students 9th - 10th
National Public Radio tells the story of the traveling display of LAPD archived photos from crime scenes as early as the 1920s, some of them "Wonderfully cinematic."
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Chemical Reactions: Was the Blood at the Scene the "Real Mc Coy"?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The activity listed below comes well into the middle of a unit study. Upon studying a "crime scene" and the evidence provided, the students are to take notes, study photos or drawings, look at suspect alibis and statements and then...
Activity
Indiana University

The Case of the Missing Computer Chip

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Have your teams of students solve the simulated crime scene using clues presented in this thorough forensic lesson plan.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Science Fair Csi: Can You Predict the Spatter?

For Students 9th - 10th
There is evidence to be gathered at every crime scene. The hard part is making sense of it all. That's where crime scene investigators and forensic scientists come in. In this science fair project, you will investigate blood spatter...
Lesson Plan
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Mixed Reception

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Participate in the investigation of a virtual crime scene using chemistry concepts to solve a mysterious death. The 40-50 minute activity can be used as a classroom lab or as a homework assignment. Additionally, teachers may request a...
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Other

Crime Scene Investigation: Proper Tagging and Labeling of Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th
What is the purpose of tagging and labeling items of evidence? What information belongs on the tag? These questions are answered in this concise but competent site.
Activity
Indiana University

A Crime Against Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
Have your students delve into the evidence involving a small tree and arrive at an explanation of what happened in this thorough lesson plan site. .
Website
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Crime Scene Chemistry: The Light of Luminol

For Students 9th - 10th
Experiment with the chemical called luminol, which emits a blue light when it reacts with other chemicals. This science fair project explores whether temperature affects the amount of light emitted. The Science Buddies project ideas are...
Unit Plan
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: The Bertillon System

For Students 9th - 10th
Bertillon devised a system to make order out of the myriad of crime scene photos taken by the police. This brief site describes how that system worked and shows a number of crime scene photos taken from Bertillon's photo album.
Unit Plan
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: The 19th Century Revolution in Forensic Imaging

For Students 9th - 10th
In the 19th century, forensic pathologists began to use words and pictures to describe cadavers and to teach using cadavers in the classroom. See a number of interesting photos of various crime scenes on this interesting site.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: c.s.i.: The Cory Crime Scene

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The character talked about in E. A. Robinson's poem, Richard Cory, is about a man with everything, a man that everyone wants to be like, a man who ends his own life without explanation. Singers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, intrigued by...
Activity
Cyberbee

Cyberbee: Who Dunnit?

For Students 3rd - 8th
If you are a crime scene investigation (CSI) fan, then you will love this site! You get to be the detective by examining the evidence, viewing the crime scene, dusting for fingerprints, interviewing the suspects, and solving the crime.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Forensics Case 8: Using Soil Characteristics to Link Suspects

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students measure pH, conductivity, and water absorbency of different samples of soil. They use these characteristic properties to identify soil samples. They use the physical and chemical characteristics of soil samples...
Website
Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: On Maggots and Murders: Forensic Entomology [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Five-page article explains how forensic scientists, when investigating crimes, analyze maggots and blowflies to determine approximate times of death.

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