Forensic Case Study: Ballistics (The Mystery of Elm Street)
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Designed to save you time and make teaching easier, use this case study can be used as reinforcement, as a formative assessment, or as a review! Students will read background information on the James Mitchell Shooting Case, review key details (police report) and forensic lab results and then complete analysis questions. Students will learn about techniques used to analyze ballistic evidence as well as the role of ballistic evidence in forensic investigations. Teacher answer key is included!
Content Standards covered in this resource:
- Students will evaluate the role of ballistics in forensic investigation.
Materials:
- Copy of case study worksheet for each student
- Or, uploaded case study to digital format of your choice
- Optional: Provide each student with background page
Literacy Standard:
- L11-12RST2: Determine the central ideas of conclusions of a text; summarize complex concepts, processes, or information presented in a text by paragraphing them in simpler but still accurate terms.
Content Objectives (TSWBAT):
- Explain the significance of ballistic evidence in solving crimes involving firearms.
- Describe how forensic experts determine if bullets recovered from a crime scene match a specific firearm.
- Explain the process of examining striated impressions in ballistic evidence analysis.
- Understand how blood spatter analysis assist in the investigation of the James Mitchell case?
- Hypothesize why is it important to establish the trajectory of bullets in a shooting incident?
Key Vocabulary:
Ballistic evidence, striated impressions, ballistic comparison, trajectory analysis, bullet casing,
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