Forensic student activity: Identifying the mechanism, manner and cause of death
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Estimating the Post Mortem Interval, estimating time of death, and learning the roles of the Medical Examiner, this unit will help your students engage in the field of Forensic Science. If you are struggling to create a creative, engaging unit about Death Investigations and Forensic Pathology, lookPrice $34.99Original Price $37.23Save $2.24
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This is a student activity for the classroom, where students will use scenarios to determine the cause, manner and mechanism of this. This is a great activity to use during the "Death Investigations" unit of a Forensic Science course. This activity includes an answer key, so the teacher can review at the end of class.
Objectives:
- Distinguish between four manners of death: natural, accidental, suicidal, and homicidal
- Distinguish between cause, manner, and mechanisms of death
Using the following criteria, analyze the following scenarios, then determine the mechanism, manner & cause of death in each scenario.
Instructions: Choose three colors (highlighters or colored pencils work best) to assign to the “mechanism,” “manner” and “cause” of death. As you go through each scenario, use the colors you assigned to each of these to help you answer the questions for each scenario.
- Mechanism – biochemical or physiological abnormality produced by the cause of death that is incompatible with life.
- Manner of Death – homicide, suicide, natural causes, accidental or undetermined
- Cause – disease or injury that initiated the lethal chain of events that lead to death
Example: One can die of a massive hemorrhage (the mechanism of death) due to a gunshot wound through the head (the cause of death) as a result of being shot (homicide).
