Interdisciplinary Forensics

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Forensics in English

Students will participate in a “mystery-in-a-box” game after they write back stories for the their characters.

Students will read a mystery novel, keeping track of clues in a “notebook” and analyzing their clue-solving abilities.

Forensics in Art Warm-up Discussion: What constitutes

forensic evidence? List ideas on the board.

In small groups, students will choose one of the graphic novels to examine the spatial relationships, details and specific features of the subject matter, keeping the idea of forensic evidence in mind.

Teacher will display and read a story of his or her choosing from Crime Scene Whodunits on the document camera. Students should take notes on possible forensic clues that would help solve this crime as the story is read.

Students will then create a graphic novel page containing six frames in which all forensic clues necessary to solve the crime from the short story appear.

Forensics in Science

Students will read about four careers in Forensics, including Forensic Nurse or Crime Scene

Investigator

Students will prepare four interview questions for the Nurse or Crime Scene Investigator

Student questions will help guide the discussion with the Forensic Nurse and Crime Scene Investigator

when they come to visit the class.

Forensics in Social Studies

Students will view the video and web comic from the Smithsonian web site.

Students will, in groups, complete the “Cracking the Case” Lesson from Written in Bone

Students will study a historical event or case (assassination, disappearance, death, disaster, etc.) that could have further questions answered with advances in forensic anthropology.

Using poster board or a graphic organizer, students will use existing evidence from that case or event to list questions remaining about the case and forensic techniques available today that could have changed the way history was written.

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The Who. "Who Are You?" Rec. 1968. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Soundtrack from the TV Show). 2002. MP3.

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