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3rd grade forensics lessons
Fingerprint Science Experiment | Forensics
Students will become detectives and investigate their fingerprints!! This STEM fingerprint science experiment covers the three types of fingerprints and teaches super fun facts about fingerprints in humans and animals. This is an easy science experiment that works great with any age students!Digital Science Experiment - Google Version IncludedWHAT'S INCLUDED?Pg. 1- All About Fingerprints (fill in the blank option)Pg. 2- Types of FingerprintsPg. 3- Ink Pad Fingerprints and ObservationsPg. 4- Comp
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K - 5th
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Also included in: 7 Easy Science Experiments To Teach The Scientific Method Bundle
Mystery Unit Activities & Detective Games | Fingerprints, Detective Games & more
Fun, low-prep mystery unit - great for back to school!This mini bundle includes a lesson plan, colorful flashcards, forensic booklet, and activity instructions. Add some detective activities to your mystery genre study! Your kids will love analyzing fingerprints and solving logic puzzles. This package includes the following:Forensics Fingerprinting Booklet Fingerprinting Activity (individual pages) – If you choose to NOT print it as a booklet Lesson plan with teacher’s notes and background info
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2nd - 4th
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Elementary Cyber Security - Forensics
OUR COMPUTER HAS BEEN HACKED! It's up to the young CSI investigators to figure out who did it. This lesson is a Breakout Box meets the game of Clue that integrates oral language, reading, math, and technology . Students work in teams to measure "digital footprints", study fingerprint scans, identify "spyware traces" left on the computer and look at Nmap evidence. It integrates reading, writing and math with 21st Century skills of collaboration, communication, citizenship and critical thinking.
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2nd - 5th
Elementary Forensics Unit
This Science Elementary Forensics Unit is designed for 2nd and 3rd grade students. It contains various instructional lessons and experiments which enable children to learn the skills needed to "solve a crime". Sample prints, documents, and handwriting samples are all included. Instructional lessons which could be used over several days are included as well as an actual case. Elementary Forensics Unit by Melissa Thomasson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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2nd - 5th
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Owl Pellet Lesson Plans and Activities
This Owl Pellet Unit comes with a cute owl-shaped book for students to work inside and record their findings. It has a Five Day Lesson Plan along with extension activities. There are 26 pages.Please look at the sample file to see what is included.
The Bone Identification Charts and Sketches of rodent types are not my intellectual property. I added them to help you and your students easily identify and distinguish between different types of bones of prey. These pages had no copyright information
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3rd - 5th
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Project Based Learning: Solve a Mystery with Scientific Inquiry
Project Based Learning: Solve a Mystery with Scientific InquiryThis is a science inquiry project where students use the concepts of the scientific method to solve a theft. I created this as a project based learning unit for my third grade students. I would suggest using it with third or fourth grade students. It is a great extension to a scientific inquiry unit! If you work on the mystery every day, and spend about 45-60 minutes each day, the unit will take you approximately 2 weeks. INCLUDED:1.
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3rd - 4th
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Crime Week Detective Notebook-Forensics
Crime Week! Never witnessed more learning occur in one week than during crime week! Problem-solving, critical thinking, inferring, and collaborating! This product includes 31 pages to bind together to create a detective notebook. The following pages are in this package...2 Cover Pages to choose fromWhat is Forensic Science?Crime Scene Sketch PageEvidence PageList of SuspectsQuestions for the SuspectsA Lesson on FingerprintsFingerprint IdentificationSuspect's Fingerprints8 pages of different f
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2nd - 4th
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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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CSI Forensic unit for elementary
This editable document allows you to create a fake classroom crime and use forensics to solve it. There are lessons describing three types of evidences: fingerprint analysis, ink analysis (chromatography), and DNA analysis. Each lesson has a mini-video lesson and experiment. This was created for a summer camp setting, but could be adapted to whatever format you needed. This resource is on google slides and also links to relevant youtube videos and google forms.
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2nd - 8th
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Wildlife Scene Detectives
Wildlife scene instructions, a power point presentation 14 slides, instructor led scene identification charts, wildlife scat identification and tracks poster.. With an activity for 2 classes to participate in. Become a nature detective in the wild or outside your door, you can make it happen with my lesson and involves critical thinking. You can even do it inside on a rainy day as an alternative. You get 16 slides, which includes a scat poster, one tracks identification, lessons how to do them,
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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An Introduction To Forensics -- In-Person and Distance Learning
37 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class activities and projects to introduce students to forensic science. Welcome to the world of Matter Mania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers through real world examples and project based learning.The objective of this lesson is to introduce students to forensic science
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3rd - 5th
Forensics Unit
The student detectives will conduct many hands-on science labs to determine who the suspect was that committed the crime on campus. During labs the students will analyze fiber and hair, fingerprints, handwriting, and blood. In the end, the crime will be solved and the suspect will be identified. To end the unit, the students will create DNA out of candy.
The materials that you will need to have or purchase for this unit are two microscopes or magnifying glasses, candy for DNA, wire, prepared s
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2nd - 8th, Higher Education
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Murder Mystery
I used this file in a fourth grade intervention class. This file does not include the story that I worked through with my students but it does include visual aids of the evidence, crime scene, and suspects/witnesses. As well as a police report for the students to fill out. We had a lot of fun and I hope you will too!
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3rd - 6th
Science Lesson Plan + PowerPoint - Science Detectives and Secret Messages 4-11yr
This lesson plan gives you a fun hands-on lesson all about being a detective and working out a variety of secret clues from code breaking using mirrors, water, code wheels, Morse code and more!
It includes lots of activities the children can perform in the class and then take home and share with their parents. It's a great talking point for sharing a learning experience!
This lesson plan also includes a really valuable animated PowerPoint which clearly helps show the answers to the clues! This
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K - 6th
Fingerprint Sorting Interactive Whiteboard Activity
A SMART Board notebook that provides pictures of the various fingerprint types. Students begin the activity by identifying the elements in their fingerprints, and then the class sorts them by student name. You can use this with Activinspire as well.
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3rd - 7th
The Science Party: Detective Science- Solve a Crime!
The Science Party is a resource for teachers, parents, camps, and home-schoolers for great curriculum and instructional materials for ages 5-11 or so! These classes can be used for preschool, school enrichment, after school classes, daycares, camps, or as a homeschool lesson. Check out all of our classes available in TpT!
In this item, the purchaser will have access to a Science Party class that can be run during a 90 minute block, or sectioned into blocks, depending on the time for the class.
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PreK - 5th
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Mosasaurus - Ocean Reptile Review informational article questions vocab dinosaur
Mosasaurus - Ocean Reptile Review informational article questions vocab dinosaur
2 page review article
questions
vocabulary
true/false
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2nd - 4th
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Dinosaur Dig
Charts, time lines, diagrams, models they make themselves, dramatized stories, maps and much more will help students discover what dinosaurs looked like, what they ate and when and where they lived. They'll also learn about dinosaur hunters (paleontologists) and what they do, including some impressive discoveries of famous dinosaur hunters who lived many years ago.
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1st - 4th
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Loveland Monster - Lizard Cryptid Lesson article questions word search
Loveland Monster - Lizard Cryptid Lesson article questions word search
2 page review of the Cryptid Loveland Monster of Ohio
includes review questions
word search
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3rd - 6th
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"I Spy..." An Introduction to Microscopes
In this lab, teacher will model how to use a microscope properly, then students will get to use a hand lens and microscope to compare the differences.
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3rd - 5th
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Lab Modeling Weathering and Erosion Using Skittles
This is a fun lab where students model weathering and erosion using skittles candies.
This lab uses readily available, inexpensive and safe materials.
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Forensics Lessons
These two lesson plans two lesson plans are a great way to get your students interested in the type of science that they see in movies and T.V. while also meeting the academic standards for the grade level.
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K - 3rd
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Forensics for 2nd Graders
This product contains two lesson plans teaching 2nd graders about forensics using language arts. There is also a strategy file that can be used in any discipline and a fun writing exercise for students to use instead of a normal book report!
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2nd - 5th
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Forensics Unit
Entire unit on Forensics, including a literary themepark, strategies, and lesson plans.
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2nd - 4th
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