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Forensics scaffolded notes under $5
Forensic Firearms / Ballistics Activity - NO PREP
A fun Ballistics Evidence Activity for your students! Can they use their skills to solve the murder of Dillon Dollar? Your students will search for ballistics evidence at the crime scene and in the homes of three suspects. They will then take the role of a ballistics analyst to compare striation marks between the crime scene bullets and those shot from the suspects’ guns (ten bullets total!). Finally, they use gunshot residue evidence to determine the muzzle distance when Dillon was shot. Includ
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-PS2-2
Forensics - Fingerprint Patterns Summarized Text with Questions
This is an overview text of different fingerprint patterns. Topics included in this text:- Principles of fingerprints- Loops, whorls & arches- Ridge and minutiae patternsPerfect if you use an interactive notebook! Included is a page that allows this to be folded into a booklet!
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Also included in: Forensics | SUMMARIZED TEXT WITH QUESTIONS (Growing Bundle!)
Forensics | Blood Basics + Blood Typing Summary Text + Mini WebQuest
This is an overview text of blood basics and blood typing. This can be used as a review or as an introduction to the topic. Concepts included in this text:- Components of blood- Roles of blood- 8 different blood types- Antibodies and antigens- Blood transfusionsThis product also includes a MINI WEBQUEST page as an extension and includes answer keys for the text and web quest!
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Grades:
10th - 12th
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Also included in: Forensics | SUMMARIZED TEXT WITH QUESTIONS (Growing Bundle!)
Microscope Doodle Notes | Middle School Science | Cornell Notes
These scaffolded Cornell Doodle Notes combine two effective note-taking strategies and can be used to introduce the parts, their functions, and the use of the compound microscope. These notes provide a graphic organizer of the parts and functions of the microscope, a summary of how the microscope magnifies an image, rules for using a microscope safely and properly, and steps for calculating a compound microscope’s total magnification power.As a review at the end of the notes, there is a Sum It U
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Grades:
6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-1
Forensics - DNA Fingerprinting (Profiling) | Summarized Text with Questions
Introductory text to DNA profiling. Perfect for interactive notebooks OR binders! These guided texts really help students navigate through a text on a new topic, allowing them to really be successful with the new content!
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Also included in: Forensics | SUMMARIZED TEXT WITH QUESTIONS (Growing Bundle!)
Forensic Science: How to Process a Crime Scene Slides + Notes
Everything you need to teach your Forensic Science students the basics of how to process a crime scene! Includes the topics: How to secure a crime sceneWhat CSI wearSteps to process a crime sceneEvidence search methodsHow to label and seal evidenceThe importance of the Chain of CustodyThe resource was purposefully designed to be NO PREP.Resource contains:Teacher Google Slide - 15 slides can be used in two ways:To lead direct instruction in class or through videoGiven to the students to use on th
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
Also included in: Forensic Science Crime Scene Basics Unit BUNDLE
Forensic Footwear Impression Evidence: Three Activities!
Three Forensic Footwear Impression activities give your students a chance to practice their skills! Two digital and one hands on. Students measure impressions and calculate height, match footwear impressions to the sole pattern that made it, and make their own impression and cast!Calculate Height: Interactive Google Slides with ten total questions. Five slides give students a footwear impression. They use the digital ruler to measure the impression length, and then estimate the suspect’s height
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
Forensics | Entomology Guided Text with Questions
This is a 4 page overview text of forensic entomology. This can be used as a review or as an introduction to the topic. Concepts included in this text:- What forensic entomology is and how it's used- What information we can gather from insects- Popular insects that arrive on the scene first- Forensic entomotoxicology (brief)This product also comes with a teacher answer key!Please feel free to email me at nmweissert@gmail.com with any questions, comments, or feedback you may have!
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Forensics | SUMMARIZED TEXT WITH QUESTIONS (Growing Bundle!)
Forensic Science Lesson: Direct vs Circumstantial Evidence
This resource is designed to teach students the difference between Direct and Circumstantial evidence. It also shows students how unreliable direct evidence (eyewitness testimony) is, and therefore the extreme importance of circumstantial evidence - which is what Forensic Science is all about! Resource contains:Direct vs Circumstantial Evidence Google Slides - 16 slides NO PREP This lesson is student - led, the teacher needs only to give students access! It includes…- an explanation of the diffe
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
Also included in: Forensic Science Crime Scene Basics Unit BUNDLE
Forensic Firearms / Ballistics Evidence: JFK Cold Case Video Guide
Forensic Firearms and Ballistics Evidence in real life! Nova Cold Case JFK is a great one-hour documentary that looks at and tests the ballistics evidence of the Kennedy Assassination. I typically show this to my students after they have learned about Ballistics Evidence. This resource is a video guide that organizes the documentary into sections…The Event: A timeline of what happened Gun and Ammunition: It was unique! The Shooter: Who he was, and what happened to him before he could stand trial
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-PS2-2
Observation and Inferences Foldable, Stations, and Presentation
I always struggle with teaching observation and inference to my students. I've tried incorporating it into other topics or lecturing on it, and it just doesn't seem to help. I developed these activities to help my students differentiate between observations and inferences. I do this as a first-week activity in my high school forensic science classes, but this would also be great for middle school science classes. Also, all of these activities have been sized to fit in a composition book- so they
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Forensic Science: Blood Spatter Evidence Notes + Review Questions
Teach your students Forensic Blood Spatter Analysis! NO PREP - This set of notes is designed to help your students learn how to identify different types of blood spatter patterns, and what they mean at a crime scene. The notes follow along with the YouTube video ‘Blood Spatter Analysis Lecture’ posted by Renee Blake. The lecture is in two parts:Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XVJ2xBZV2c Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioL_GQO_I00 These links are included in both the print out no
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Forensic Science: Class vs Individual Evidence Slides, Notes, Activity
Everything you need to teach your Forensic Science students the difference between Class and Individual Evidence. Students learn how to identify each type of evidence, and then practice their skills on fifteen different examples! The resource was purposefully designed to be flexible, teacher led, student led, or a mix of both!Resource contains:Class vs Individual Evidence Google Slides: Four slides with the definition of each type of evidence and examples. This can be used in two ways:For direct
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
Also included in: Forensic Science Crime Scene Basics Unit BUNDLE
Forensics | Handwriting Traits + Graphology Summarized Text with Questions
SAVE 20% OFF BUYING THIS PRODUCT IN THE FORENSICS GROWING BUNDLE HERE!-OR-SAVE 10% ON GROWING BUNDLE (WILL BE FULL YEAR) OF FORENSICS SUMMARY TEXTS HERE!This product is a summarized text about handwriting graphology. This goes into certain aspects of writing that is looked at to give insight into personality traits based on the way a person writes. Included is a 3-page text with questions aligned on the right side, an answer key for the text as well as a handwriting practice page where students
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Forensics | SUMMARIZED TEXT WITH QUESTIONS (Growing Bundle!)
Two Forensic Tool Mark Impression Activities : Digital and Hands On!
Two fun activities for your forensic tool mark impression unit! One activity is digital and NO PREP, the other is hands on. Both will challenge your students to practice their tool mark analysis skills. 1) Digital ActivityThis is student-independent, just share it and let them work! Students move through 11 interactive Google Slides. They collect and compare tool marks from the crime scene and suspect tools to find a match. The resource includes a detailed Key for easy grading. It takes my 10th
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
Forensics | Anthropology - If Bones Could Talk Guided Notes
This product is designed to go through briefly what a skeleton can tell us at a crime scene. This is part of an introduction to anthropology for my forensics classes but can be used in Biology if talking about the skeleton as well! Topics included in this product are:- How to tell male vs. female skeleton apart- How anthropologists determine age of skeletal remains- How to determine racial ancestry from skeletal remains- How to determine height from the long bones of a skeleton- Facial reconstru
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Forensic Odontology (Bite Mark) Activities: Digital and Hands On!
Two Bite Mark activities to challenge your students: One digital and one hands-on. First, they practice their skills of bite mark analysis using digital overlays to solve a case. Then, match impressions with a fun, hands-on Bite Mark activity! Students will make their own sets of bite marks, and then identify an unknown bite mark!Resource includes:25 total Google Slides with instructions to guide students through the activities. Full key for the digital activity Three student sheets needed for t
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Forensic Firearms / Ballistics Evidence Notes & Review- NO PREP
Your students will learn Forensic Ballistics Evidence with this NO PREP resource. Students can complete their ballistics notes independently, or through class lecture - or both! Topics your students will learn:The basic characteristics, similarities and differences between handguns, rifles and shotguns. How a weapon fires Basic evidence collection techniques for firearms, ammunition, and clothing containing Gunshot ResidueClass characteristics of bullets and casingsIndividual Characteristics of
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-PS2-2
Forensics Fingerprint Identification: Notes + Activity + Review Questions
Learn Forensic Fingerprint Identification! No prep - Fingerprint Learning Slides are student independent, perfect for both in class and distance learning. Your students will learn:The history of Forensic FingerprintsHow the Bertillon System worked, and why it didn’t workImportance of Fingerprints in Forensic ScienceHow to classify fingerprints: Plain Arch, Tented ArchRadial Loop, Ulnar LoopCentral Pocket Whorl, Plain Whorl, Double Loop WhorlUse of the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identificat
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-LS1-2
Also included in: Forensic Fingerprint Evidence BUNDLE! Notes + Activities + Assessments
Forensics | Fingerprint QR Code Stations
This product is a technology based interactive activity to get students engaged and moving! The QR codes can get scanned easily with the students phones, iPads or chrome books! Topics in these stations include:- AFIS- Types of prints- Collection methods- Identifying minutiae/ridge patterns- Issues with fingerprints as evidence- Matching fingerprints
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Forensics | Ballistics + Firearms Vocabulary Practice
This product is 3 pages long and designed to have students practice using the important basic vocabulary involved in ballistics and firearms in regards to the forensic unit. Students interact with the information with practice questions, pictures, definitions, diagrams and real examples!This practice touches on:- Firearm types- Parts of a gun- Aspects of individual evidenceThis product also includes a link at the top of the page that sends them to a Quizlet deck for support as well as an answer
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Forensics Tool Mark Impression Evidence Lesson: Slides + Notes + Review
Teach your students the value of Forensic Tool Mark Impression Evidence! This resource is NO PREP. It can be completed by students independently, be teacher led, or a combination of both!Interactive Google Slides keep students engaged by asking them to drag and drop objects, label images, watch short YouTube video clips, read an article, and answer questions.Students will learn...The tools commonly used in crimeWhere to search for tool marks at a crime sceneTo identify the three types of tool ma
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
Forensics | Hair Evidence Summarized Text with Questions - EDITABLE
SAVE 20% OFF BUYING THIS PRODUCT IN THE FORENSICS GROWING BUNDLE HERE!-OR-SAVE 10% ON GROWING BUNDLE (WILL BE FULL YEAR) OF FORENSICS SUMMARY TEXTS HERE!This product is a 3 page summarized text with guided questions about hair evidence. This text covers general information about hair as evidence, collection and differences in hair structure to tell if it's from an animal or human, or the differences in the different racial profilesAs always, please feel free to email me at nmweissert@gmail.com w
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Forensics | SUMMARIZED TEXT WITH QUESTIONS (Growing Bundle!)
Forensic Ballistics Evidence: Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman Case Study
The shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman is an excellent case study where Forensic ballistics evidence was able to push through emotions and opinions. Most of my high school students have never heard of the case, which is great because we get to really discuss the evidence before they know what the verdict was. This resource is best used after students have an understanding of how ballistics evidence works. They will see the testimony of the Forensic Firearms Expert from the actual tri
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-PS2-2
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