Forensic Investigations
A summary of what skills a student should have to be successful in this topic.
If you're tying all the lessons together with the "Who Shot Mr Burns?" here is a detective book for them to record their clues.
Forensic and Investigation Skills
The resources have not been designed to as a lesson by lesson for this topic. Instead, a different forensic or investigative skill has been given it's own landing page and these activites were often mixed and matched to create a lesson.
Understand the reason why people commit a crime.
When people give excuses that they couldn't commit a crime, identify if it is valid.
Learn how blood typing works and use that to identify an unknown sample.
Using chromotography to do ink analysis. This is one in a series (ink, handwriting & paper) of a three part clue to understand a piece of evidence as a threating note or fraudulent document.
Not only matching handwriting, but also giving insights into psychology. This is one in a series (ink, handwriting & paper) of a three part clue to understand a piece of evidence as a threating note or fraudulent document.
Let's look at paper under a microscope. This is one in a series (ink, handwriting & paper) of a three part clue to understand a piece of evidence as a threating note or fraudulent document.
Learn about the key features of fingerprints.
Learn how ballistic evidence is analyzed.
Learn about the structure and role of DNA and how it can be used to determine biological relations and crime evidence.
Teacher Notes
Old lessons, yet to be updated.