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| Language Arts Literacy |
| Standard 3.1(Reading) Select appropriate electronic media
for research and evaluate the quality of the information received. |
- Internet Research
- Library Research
- Background & Theory page from this project website.
- Appropriate textbooks |
| Standard 3.2(Writing) All students will write in clear,
concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different
audiences and purposes. |
- Written reports that synthesizes and cites data using
researched information and technology
- Summary of notes from guest
speakers or video conference (optional) |
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Standard
3.4(Listening) All students will listen actively to information from a
variety of sources in a variety of situations. |
- Listen to summarize, make judgments, and
evaluate from guest speakers or video conference (optional)
- Every activity requires a significant group discussion
which may lead into debate. |
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Standard
3.5(Viewing and media literacy) All students will access, view, evaluate and
respond to print, nonprint, and electronic texts and resources. |
- Fingerprinting activity, hair analysis
activity, and blood spatter analysis activity require the students to
identify and evaluate resources and images.
- Internet research |
| Mathematics |
| Standard 4.1 (Number and Numerical operations) All students
will develop number sense and will perform standard numerical operations and
estimations on all types of numbers in a variety of ways. |
- Chromatography: Calculating Retention Factor (Rf)
from measurements and appropriate formulas.
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| Standard 4.2 (Geometry and Measurement) All students will
develop spatial sense and the ability to use geometric properties,
relationships, and measurement to model, describe and analyze phenomena. |
- In Blood spatter analysis, students will locate the
approximate position of the victim when blood exited the body by using geometric formulas and models. |
| Standard 4.4 (Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete
mathematics) All students will develop an understanding of the concepts and
techniques of data analysis, probability, and discrete mathematics, and will
use them to model situations, solve problems and analyze and draw
appropriate inferences from data. |
- From each activity, taking careful measurements will
eventually lead to interrelated areas of applied mathematics. |
| Standard 4.5 (Mathematical processes) All students will use
mathematical processes of problem solving, communication, connections,
reasoning, representations, and technology to solve problems and communicate
mathematical ideas. |
- In chromatography, and blood spatter analysis,
students will be able to depict the crime scene with mathematical reasoning.
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In each activity, students will experience the communication of mathematical
ideas by sharing with other peer groups, instructors and parents in oral and
written form.
- In Blood spatter analysis, students may use CAD software or other
computer software to represent blood flight paths in visual representations
(e.g., diagrams, charts, or tables) |
| Science |
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Standard 5.1(Scientific processes)
All
students will develop problem-solving, decision-making and inquiry skills,
reflected by formulating usable questions and hypotheses, planning
experiments, conducting systematic observations, interpreting and analyzing
data, drawing conclusions, and communicating results. |
- In each activity, students design and conduct
investigations which incorporate scientific methods. They will also
collect, organize, and interpret the data from experiments
- If forensic
science project is modified to the Crime Scene Investigation (CSI), the
sequence of activities must be designed to guide the student from analyzing
each evidence to solving the crime.
- In serology, students will understand, evaluate and practice safe
procedures for conducting science investigations. |
Standard 5.2 (Science and
society) All students will develop an understanding of how people of various
cultures have contributed to the advancement of science and technology, and
how major discoveries and events have advanced science and technology.
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- Students will learn about DNA and genetics in prior
to the DNA fingerprinting activity. They will examine the lives and
contributions of important scientists who have effected major breakthroughs
in the history of science. |
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Standard 5.3 (Mathematical
applications) All students will integrate mathematics as a tool for
problem-solving in science, and as a means of expressing and/or modeling
scientific theories. |
- In blood spatter analysis, students will apply
mathematical models of physical phenomena to predict real crime events.
- Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry will be used extensively in
some activities for calculating such things as retention factor and
impact angle.
- In each activity, students will use a variety of tools or instruments
to make measurements in appropriate units.
Then, they will use tables and graphs to represent and interpret data. |
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Standard 5.4
(Nature and process of technology) All students will understand the
interrelationships between science and technology and develop a conceptual
understanding of the nature and process of technology. |
- In DNA and conventional fingerprinting
activity, there are several questions that students will plan, develop, and
implement to solve an technological problem.
- Throughout the forensic science projects, students will develop
abilities with technological design including experiences in predicting,
decision making, critical thinking, and problem solving. |
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Standard 5.5
(Characteristics of life) All students will gain an understanding of the
structure, characteristics, and basic needs of organisms and will
investigate the diversity of life. |
- In prior to DNA fingerprinting activity,
students will learn genetics such a topic may include diversity, biological
evolution, genetic materials, and heredity. |
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Standard 5.6
(Chemistry) All students will gain an understanding of the structure and
behavior of matter. |
- In chromatography, students will
recognize that a mixture can be separated into the original substances using
their characteristic physical properties.
- In chromatography, students will make relationship between types
of chemical bond and separation of ink. Also they should be able to
explain changes in the arrangement and motion of atoms and molecules.
- In DNA fingerprinting activity, students will know that
electrophoresis can be explained by changes in the arrangement and motion of
atoms and molecules. |
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Standard 5.7
(Physics) All students will gain an understanding of natural laws as
they apply to motion, forces, and energy transformations.
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- In DNA fingerprinting activity, students
will recognize how DNA electrophoresis works basis on the
electromagnetic force between DNA fragments and electric charge.
- In blood spatter analysis, students will apply the mathematical relationship
between the mass, acceleration, force, and gravitational force.
- In prior to chromatography, instructors will show that light is
reflected, refracted, or absorbed when it interacts with matter and that
colors may appear as a result of this interaction. |
Optional*
| Social Science |
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Standard 6.1:
All Students Will Learn Democratic Citizenship And How To Participate In The
Constitutional System Of Government Of The United States. |
- If instructors choose to do CSI project with Jury
trial, students will experience how system work in a court of law.
- Students become aware of responsibilities of citizens by
performing mock trial. |
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