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Middle school forensics lessons under $5
Christmas Science Inquiry Activity for Middle School
An exciting Christmas themed mini-inquiry science lab! Teach and reinforce observation and inference skills in this fun easy to prep activity. Your students will love solving the mystery of the candy cane crime! Perfect for forensic units, inquiry units, and the holiday season.ACTIVITY DESCRIPTIONThis is an exciting mini-inquiry lab that uses candy canes! In this inquiry lab activity students read a short newspaper article about a candy cane criminal who is sneaking into Santa's Toy Shop
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4th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-3
Steps of Crime Scene Investigation- Lesson & Activity
Teach the 7 Steps of Crime Scene Investigation to your Forensics students with this ultra-engaging lesson & jigsaw activity! This lesson & activity bundle places the responsibility of learning on the students, making you available for more of a facilitator role. Need a digital option? No problem! Each resource in this bundle includes both a PRINTABLE & DIGITAL version, making it perfect for flipped classrooms, distance learning, online courses and traditional classrooms. *Note: the
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8th - 12th
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Forensics Chit-Chat: First Day of School Station Activity
Engage your forensics students on the first day of school! This station lab is meant to serve as an ice- breaker activity that will get your students up, moving around the room. They will be engaged in meaningful scientific conversations as they rotate through these 8 lab station tasks. Need a digital option? No problem! This resource includes both a print and digital version, making it perfect for flipped classrooms, distance learning, online courses and traditional classrooms. What's include
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8th - 12th
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DNA Fingerprinting Simulated Crime Scene Activity Distance Learning
This DNA Fingerprinting Simulated Crime Scene Activity is a great way to begin your unit on the structure, function and processes of DNA in order to elicit student interest in learning about the DNA molecule! I introduce this crime scene situation on the first day of studying DNA then do a series of lessons on DNA structure and replication, all while the crime scene is set up in the classroom to keep my students engaged. The last day of the week, we do this fingerprinting activity to determine t
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7th - 10th
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NGSS:
HS-LS1-1
Cryptography Murder Mystery
This challenge is based off of the game Clue where players need to identify a murder suspect, location, and weapon. There are 6 options given for each category and every clue that a group deciphers will narrow that list down. As written, groups will need to solve all 8 clues before they are able to solve the mystery.Each of the clues is encoded using a different cipher technique. Each of these techniques is outlined in the resource posters shared below. None of these ciphers are too intense and
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6th - 12th
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DNA Technology Sub Lesson - Cloning, Gene Therapy, & Forensic Science Homework
NO PREP Sub lesson science article with text-dependent questions OR help align your lessons with Common Core informational text OR use as homework!
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Forensic Science | Classify Fingerprints
Are you ready to dive into the intriguing world of fingerprint analysis with your students? Look no further because this Forensic Science: Fingerprint Activities resource is here to turn your classroom into a crime-solving laboratory.KEY FEATURESEngaging Hands-on Activities: This resource is packed with immersive activities that will have your students channeling their inner Sherlock Holmes. They'll start by identifying their own unique fingerprints, a fascinating exploration of individuality an
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Science Activities Bundle
Chromatography Lab-Jolly Rancher Raider
This lesson is part of my Beginning of the Year Experiments Bundle 2 that contains three experiments at a reduced price.
In this lab, student's are asked to figure out who stole the teachers' Jolly Ranchers by using scientific process skills. This fun and easy to do lab uses chromatography to separate water based black markers to determine who is the culprit. I've used this lab with my students for years. After the lab is finished, I use the students testing samples, lab sheets, and an e
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Beginning of the Year Experiments Bundle 2
Handwriting Analysis: Forgery Mini-Lesson
This is a fun, engaging, and informative forensics mini-lesson on handwriting analysis / forgery. This product contains a Do Now where students try to match handwriting samples, notes on handwriting analysis criteria, and a cooperative learning simulated forgery activity. Your students will love this!
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6th - 12th
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Dirty Jobs : Bug Detective (forensic video worksheet / science / entomology)
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8th - 12th
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Fingerprints for Middle School
This is a mini-unit on fingerprints that I use with my middle school students. There is a reading article about the history of fingerprints, along with a student worksheet. There is also an editable PowerPoint - with an accompanying worksheet; a fingerprint collection page, and a fingerprint analysis page. Worksheets are in Word format and can be edited or added to by you.
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6th - 8th
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Bill Nye the Science Guy : FORENSICS (human body video sheet / sub plans)
*Video is needed for completion of this product*Please make sure you have access to the video prior to making your purchaseWant more BILL! BILL!! BILL!!! – CLICK HERE!*This worksheet can be used to accompany the Bill Nye video FORENSICS (Season 5, Episode 1).The worksheet has a series of questions that help students stay focused on various science facts about solving crimes using forensics (evidence, fingerprints, DNA, technology, etc...). There are also follow-up questions as well that student
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5th - 8th
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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Chronicled are the events surrounding the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The infamous bombing and the criminal investigation that followed were a key turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. A super documentary by Spike Lee can be incorporated into the study, "Four Little Girls." I use several clips from the video to enhance my look into the case.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Forensic Science Vocabulary - Puzzles & Article (Sub Plan / No Prep / First Day)
FORENSIC SCIENCE VOCABULARY- 2 PUZZLES & 1 ARTICLEGRADES: 7-10SUBJECT: SCIENCE, FORENSIC SCIENCE, LANGUAGE ARTSSUB PLANS: YES!Product Overview: This purchase is for a set of vocabulary assignments that focus on FORENSIC SCIENCE terms. Puzzles contain the same 29 terms and are perfect for science or language arts classes (mysteries). The product works great for emergency plans, sub plans, or for first day class introduction.1) PUZZLE #1: CRISS CROSS GRID - students place the 29 terms into
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7th - 10th
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Forensic Fairy Tales: Writing in the Science Classroom
What if the Seven Dwarves used toxicology to determine the poison that harmed Snow White? Prince Charming could have saved himself a lot of time by running tests on blood left in the glass slipper. And a simple fingerprint scan might have given Rumplestiltskin's true identity without all the guesswork...
In this project from I Heart Teaching Science, all of these and more are possible as students write forensic fairy tales! A forensic fairy tale is a classic fairy tale with a forensic twist. Th
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7th - 12th
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Crime and Forensics - 4th Amendment: If Google can have your data, can police?
An informational text article about the 4th Amendment and an individual's right to privacy in the digital age. Also included is information about retrieving information from crime scenes. The information is from aetv.com, the questions are mine. A great supplement, fill in, sub plan or discussion starter! MS Word doc for easy editing.
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Crime, Forensics and Psychology Bundle #1 (no prep/sub plans)
DNA EXTRACTION- MAKE THE COOLEST NECKLACE from your own CHEEK CELLS!
After participating in a Science Teachers' Workshop offered by Carolina Biological Supply called "Make a DNA Necklace, " I have created my own recipe for a DNA extraction buffer that generates the same results as the company. In fact, the DNA yields for my lab are much higher than the company's while saving me hundreds of dollars over the years. Here is my secret recipe contained in this lab, along with a series of Analysis and Discussion questions for the students. An answer sheet is provid
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Hybrid Learning I DNA Fingerprinting Drag and Drop
***UPDATED***This Google Slide activity is a great scavenger/interactive for DNA FingerprintingSend this off to your students as a View Only and let them fill in the PPTWorks AMAZING with Google Classroom! This is EASY GRADING for teachers...just play the presentation and check their answers!Be sure to MAKE A COPY! TEACHER TIP: either have students share their completed presentation as a link to your classroom site or download their completed presentation as a PDF to send/uploadThis product incl
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Genetics - Inherited Traits and Learned Behaviors
This is a lesson powerpoint correlating with Georgia Performance Standards for 5th Grade Science: S5L2. It is a 15 slide powerpoint including kid-friendly definitions of the following genetics terms: heredity, genes, genetics, chromosomes, DNA, traits, inherited traits and learned behaviors. The powerpoint includes animation, a link to a related brainpop video and a few star wars characters. I have also included a pdf version of the powerpoint, unfortunately animation does not work in pdf.
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Mythbusters : Crimes and Myth-demeanors 2 (forensic science video sheet / STEM)
MYTHBUSTERS VIDEO WORKSHEETSUBJECTS: SCIENCE, PHYSICS, STEMGRADES: 7-12*Video is necessary for completion of this worksheet.*Please make sure you have access to the video before making your purchase.*Always view all videos for content prior to showing to your students.$AVE WITH A MYTHBUSTERS MEGA BUNDLE - CLICK HERE!*Mythbusters "Crimes and Myth-demeanors 2" (Season 4, Episode 18)A 26-question worksheet to accompany the Mythbusters episode focusing on science questions revolving around criminals
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6th - 12th
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Info Reading Text - The World's Oldest Cold Case? The Murder of Otzi the Iceman
Click here for "Author's Purpose" additional activityAn informational text article about the history of "The World's Oldest Cold Case", the murder of Otzi the Iceman, and how forensic scientists figured out details of this murder from 5000 years ago. A great activity for studying ancient civilizations, forensics, a supplement, extra credit, or substitute teaching plan anytime! This can be done as a web quest assignment using the site.
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7th - 12th
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Fingerprint Science Lab
This is an investigation into fingerprint types and occurrences. It is a science and math lesson that involves the students classifying their own fingerprints and finding out the most common type of fingerprint. It takes anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours depending on the amount of background knowledge the students have. The students also have the opportunity to work with a buddy and as a class. This could be done as a science fair project!
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1st - 6th
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Can You Spot the Fake? Art Forgery & History activity (counterfeit unit)
This fun forgery lesson focuses more on students observational skills in exploring famous pieces of art. It is interactive with student input, media and exploration opportunities. Students will explore 10 of the most famous paintings in art history. They will decide which of 2 options is the fake based on any background knowledge. After making their best educated guess, there is a video to view and a educational website to explore for each paining giving the students more knowledge and understan
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6th - 12th
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Crime Scene Investigator: Blunt Force Trauma, kinetic energy at the crime scene
In this activity, students act as a Crime Scene Investigator to solve a crime - a victim is suffering from blunt force trauma, and students must apply concepts related to MS-PS3-1 and HS-PS3-1 to solve the mystery! Purchase includes:1. in-person 5E lesson plan spanning 90 minutes (9 page PDF)2. link to online kinetic energy reading3. student worksheet pack to scaffold through all lesson components (included in PDF)4. answer key5. access to corresponding online CSI career exploration resources in
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
HS-PS3-1
, MS-PS3-1
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