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Life Science: DNA Whodunit? Lesson PlanLife Science: DNA Whodunit? Lesson Plan
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Life Science: DNA Whodunit?

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Students role play an honorary detective to assist in solving a crime committed. They investigate by a bank robbery and interview eyewitnesses using their Crime Investigation Notebook and clues from an eyewitness account from the robbery. Finally, students solve the mystery using the DNA evidence found at the scene of the crime.

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dna, deoxyribonucleic acid, conducting investigations, crime

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crime, dna, evidence, eyewitness, interview, investigate, perpetrators, science
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Grade
2nd - 4th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Instructional Strategies
Inquiry-Based Learning
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Year
2005

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