Transcript A forensic science unit of learning Presented By: Christina Adams Teacher of Science & Biology Macleans College [email protected] Made at SciCon 2006. Celebrating Science Innovation (The National.

A forensic science unit of learning
Presented By:
Christina Adams
Teacher of Science & Biology
Macleans College
[email protected]
Made at SciCon 2006.
Celebrating Science Innovation (The National Conference for Science
Educators) at Waikato University in Hamilton July 2 - 6.
Acknowledgements:
1. Dr Eleanor McNicholas
2. Rosemary Chatfield
The Learning Unit
• The crime
• Investigators arrive on scene
• Autopsy and crime scene evidence
analysed
• Suspects identified/witnesses
interviewed
• Interrogation
• Trial
Mr Barrington has been
MURDERED!
Making it happen?
• How to create a crime story
• Running a crime scene observation
• Running the laboratory session
• Creating a timeline
• Running an interrogation
• Cross Curricular connections
How to create a crime story
• One victim  Well known
• Two scenarios  Plausible
• Three suspects  With
character
Lesson #1 – Crime Scene
Discovery
• Background
–Evidence
preparation
–Body
placement
–Side story
• Lesson
–Intro to
crime
–Booklet
–Observation
instructions
Lesson #2 – Developing Theories
Possible
scenarios
and
suspects
devised
Theory
Analysis
&
evidence
review
Autopsy &
witness
accounts
revealed
Lesson #3 – CSI Lab technicians
• Behind the scenes
– Connect with
schemes
– Trial each practical
– Set the scene
– Allow for
interpretation
– Get creative with…
•Urine analysis
•Fingerprints
•Chromatography
•Tyre tracks
•Breath testing
•Blood analysis
•Electrophoresis
Lesson #3 continued…
• Skills
– Lab write up reinforcement
– Practical skill reinforcement
– Analysis of results
– Presentation of method and results
Lesson #4 – Follow the evidence
Results
analysis
Identify
suspects
and key
witnesses
What
questions
need to be
asked?
What other
evidence
might we
collect?
Lesson #5 - Interrogation
• Background
– Give suspects their brief
– Book appropriate venue
– Setting the scene
• Interrogation techniques
– Divide up questions
– Get into character
Lesson #6  9 – Trial Preparation
• Achievement
– 2 periods of preparation roles for one class
– 1 period – in the auditorium
– A not guilty verdict!
• Potential
– Social studies to teach court structure
– English to teach speech making/questioning
– Science for expert testimony
We are doing it again with…
Science
Energy ???
Maths
Murder at
Macleans
Social Studies
English
Curriculum links –
Integrating Strands
• Making sense of the nature of science and
its relationship to technology
– Critically evaluate ideas and processes
related to science
• L5 – Relate interpretations of the result of their
investigations to their original ideas, questions, and
predictions.
– Gain an understanding of personal,
community implications of the application of
science
• L5 – Investigate how knowledge of science and
technology is used by people in their everyday life.
Curriculum links –
Integrating Strands
• Developing Scientific Skills and Attitudes
– L5&6 Focusing and Planning
• Integrate their scientific ideas and personal
observations with the scientific ideas of others to
make testable predictions or to identify possible
solutions
– L4&5 Information Gathering
• Systematically record observations and
measurements
• Use information sources purposefully, asking
coherent, directed questions of people.
Curriculum links –
Integrating Strands
• Developing Scientific Skills and Attitudes
– L4 Processing and Interpreting
• Identify trends and relationships in recorded
observations and measurements by making links
within organised data
• Use data to suggest an answer to their problem
and make an evaluation of their investigation
– L4 Reporting
• Present what they did and what they found out in
their investigations in ways appropriate to their
peer group.
Resources
• Each other (Teachers and Technicians)
• Resources Used (Print):
– Investigations for Life by Meg Bailey - pg 164 (An examination of
Urine)
– Solve It! Investigations into analytical chemistry and forensic
science for years 7 – 10 Secondary School Science by Helene Hiotis
and Annette Rome for ORICA Australia
– Forensic Science – Science at Work by Karen Muskett. ISBN
0582028671
– Fingerprinting by Jeremy John Ahouse. ISBN 0912511214
– Macleans College – Forensic Science Booklet
– Whodunnit? Education kit from Auckland Museum.
– Forensic Science for High Schools (Book 1) by Jeannette Jolley and
John Powrie. Blackline masters. ISBN 1876133767
– Forensic Science for High Schools (Book 2) by Jeannette Jolley and
John Powrie. Blackline masters. ISBN 1876133775
Resources (continued)
• Resources Used (Web):
– A great help for your creative work
http://www.carolina.com/tips/murder/Murda.htm
– A great resource for you and the kids
http://www.fbi.gov/kids/6th12th/6th12th.htm
– An online investigation to give an outline of procedure
http://normandcompany.com/SM1GAME/newsplas
h.html
– A source for great experiments
http://www.scienceyear.com/sciteach/start.html