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Forensics
Essential Questions
Concept/Content
Skills
Core Activities
Assessment
Standards
5.1 A,B,C,D
- What is Forensics?
- 11 sections of forensics
- What caused the rapid - History of forensic science
growth of forensic labs in - Scientific Method; Problem
the past 40 years?
solving in Forensics
- Who are the major
- History of the crime labs.
contributors to the
- Function of a forensic
forensics science filed? scientist.
- What are some of the - Exploration of forensic
specialized forensic
science on the Internet.
services?
Chapter Vocabulary:
- How can you search for - expert witness
information about
- Locard’s Exchange Principle
forensic science on the - Scientific Method
Introduction to
Internet?
Forensics Chapter 1
- How can you use the
(5 Blocks)
scientific method to solve
problems in forensic
science?
SWBAT:
-Teacher generated
- Define forensic science materials such as:
an list the major
a)worksheets
disciplines it
b)powerpoints/notes
encompasses.
- Recognize the major
-online exercises
contributors to the
development of forensic - Hands on:
science.
Observing Trace
- List and describe the
Evidence: Exercise 1:
steps used in Scientific Locard’s Exchange
Method;
Principle
- Account for the rapid
growth of forensic labs in
the past 40 years.
-Test
- Daily Do Now
- Laboratory report
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Forensics
Standards
The Crime Scene
Chapter 2
(5 Blocks)
Essential Questions
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.2 A,B
- What is Physical
Evidence?
- What is the
responsibility of the first
police officer that arrives
at a crime scene?
- How is information at a
crime scene recorded?
- How is evidence
packaged at a crime
scene?
-What is a chain of
custody?
- What are the functions
of the different forensic
scientists?
Concept/Content
Skills
- Evidence at the crime scene
- Dealing with physical
evidence
- Sketching a crime scene
- Murder Scenes and the
autopsy
- Time of death: Forensic
pathologist, anthropologist and
entomologist.
Unit Vocabulary:
- algor mortis/livor mortis/rigor
mortis
- autopsy
- buccal swab
- chain of custody
- finished sketch/rough sketch
- standard/reference sample
- substrate control
SWBAT:
-Define physical
evidence
- Discuss the
responsibilities of the
first police officer at a
scene
- Explain the steps to be
taken to thoroughly
record the crime scene
-Describe the proper
techniques for packaging
evidence
-Define chain of custody
- Understand the
contributions of the
pathologist, entomologist
and anthropologist
Core Activities
-Teacher generated
materials such as:
a)worksheets
b)powerpoints/notes
-online exercises
- Hands on:
Exercise 2: Deductive
reasoning exercise
Assessment
-Test
- Daily Do Now
- Laboratory report
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Forensics
Standards
Physical Evidence
Chapter 3
(5 Blocks)
Concept/Content
Essential Questions
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.2 A,B 5.3 A
-What are the common - Physical Evidence
types of physical
- Examining physical evidence
evidence found at a
- Significance of physical
crime scene?
evidence
-What are the national
- Forensic databases
databases available to
Chapter Vocabulary:
forensic scientists?
- class characteristics
- How can circumstantial - comparison
evidence lead to an
- identification
arrest?
- individual characteristics
- product rule
- CODIS/IAFIS/NIBIN/PDQ
Skills
SWBAT:
- Review the common
types of physical
evidence at crime scenes
- Explain the difference
between identification
and comparison
- Define and contrast
individual and class
characteristics of
physical evidence
- Appreciate the value of
class evidence
- List and explain the
function of national
databases available
Core Activities
--Teacher generated
materials such as:
a)worksheets
b)powerpoints/notes
-online exercises
- Hands on:
Exercise 17: Bite mark
comparisons
Assessment
-Test
- Daily Do Now
- Laboratory report
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Forensics
Concept/Content
Essential Questions
Standards
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.2 A
- How can understanding - Properties of matter
the chemical properties - Periodic Table
of matter help in solving - Light
a crime?
- Glass analysis
-What is density and how Chapter Vocabulary:
can you calculate it?
- solid, liquid, gas
- How can comparing
- atom, element, compound
glass fragments lead to - Becke line
solving a crime?
- birefringence
- Celsius, Fahrenheit scale
- concentric fracture
Properties of Matter
- density
and the Analysis of
- dispersion
Glass
- electromagnetic spectrum
Chapter 4
- laminated glass
(6 Blocks)
- laser
- phase
Skills
SWBAT:
- Define and distinguish
the physical and
chemical properties of
matter.
-Understand how to use
the basic units of the
metric system.
-Define and distinguish
elements and
compounds.
-Contrast the difference
between a solid, liquid
and gas.
-Understand the
difference between the
wave and particle theory
of light.
-Understand and explain
the dispersion of light
through a prism.
-List forensic methods
for comparing glass
- Understand how to
examine glass to
determine impact
Core Activities
--Teacher generated
materials such as:
a)worksheets
b)powerpoints/notes
-online exercises
-Hands on:
Exercise 4: Density lab
Assessment
-Test
- Daily Do Now
- Laboratory report
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Forensics
Standards
Drugs
Chapter 5
(5 Blocks)
Essential Questions
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.2 A,B
- What are the common
types of drugs found in
high school?
-How can the use of
drugs lead to other
crimes?
- What types of tests are
performed to identify
different drugs?
Concept/Content
- Identify the inadequacies in
the first proposed atomic
models;
-Describe the energy and
positions of electrons according
to the quantum atomic model;
-Ability of writing electron
configuration of any atom;
-Explain how the frequencies of
emitted light are related to
changes in electron energies
Chapter Vocabulary:
- anabolic steroids
- analgesic
- chromatography
- confirmation
- depressant
- hallucinogen
- infrared
- ion
- microcrystalline test
- monochromator
- narcotic
- physical dependence
- psychological dependence
- screening test
- spectrophotometry
- stimulant
- UV
Skills
Core Activities
SWBAT:
-Teacher generated
- Compare and contrast materials such as:
psychological and
a)worksheets
physical dependence
b)powerpoints/notes
- Name and classify the
commonly abused drugs -online exercises
- Describe and explain
the process of
chromatography
-Hands on:
- Explain the difference Exercise 9:
between thin-layer
Chromatography
chromatography and gas
chromatography
- Describe the utility of
UV and IR for the ID of
organic compounds
- Describe the concept of
utility of mass
spectrometry for
identification analysis
- Understand the proper
collection of preservation
of drug evidence
Assessment
-Test
- Daily Do Now
- Laboratory report
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Forensics
Concept/Content
Essential Questions
Standards
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.2 A,B 5.3 A ,B
-What effect does alcohol -Forensic Toxicology
have on your body?
-Toxicology of alcohol
-Why is alcohol
-Testing for alcohol in blood
considered a gateway
- Blood/Alcohol Laws
drug?
- Role of the Toxicologist
Chapter Vocabulary:
- oxidation
- excretion
- pulmonary
- gas chromotography
- Schmerber V. California
- Acid/Base
- pH
- carbon monoxide
Forensic Toxicology
- percent saturation
Chapter 6
- infrared
(6 Blocks)
- ethyl alcohol
- psychological dependence
Skills
SWBAT:
- Explain how alcohol is
absorbed into the
bloodstream, transported
through the body and
eliminated by oxidation
and excretion
- List and contrast
laboratory procedures for
measuring the
concentration of alcohol
in the blood
- Relate the precautions
to be taken to properly
preserve blood in order
to analyze its alcohol
content
- Understand the
significance of implied
consent laws and the
Schmerber v. California
case to traffic
enforcement
- Describe techniques
that forensic
toxicologists use to
isolate and identify drugs
and poisons
- Describe the
significance of drugs in
human tissue and organs
Core Activities
Assessment
-Teacher generated materials such - Test
as:
- Daily Do Now
a)worksheets
- Laboratory report
b)powerpoints/notes
-online exercises
-Hands on:
Online Exercise: Toxicology
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Forensics
Standards
The Microscope
Chapter 7
(5 Blocks)
Essential Questions
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.3 A
-How do you operate a
microscope?
-What is a compound
microscope?
-How do forensic
scientists use a scanning
electron microscope?
Concept/Content
Skills
-Microscope parts
-Different types of microscopes
-Microscopes in forensics
-Comparison microscopes
Chapter Vocabulary:
- Binocular
- Condenser
- Depth of Focus
- Eyepiece Lens
- Field of view
- Microspectrophotometer
- Monocular
- Objective Lens
-Metallic bonds
- Parfocal
- Polarized Light
- Poloarizer
- Real Image
- Transmitted Illumination
- Vertical or Reflected
Illumination
- Virtual Image
SWBAT:
-List the parts of the
microscope
-Define magnification,
field of view, working
distance and depth of
focus
-Contrast compound and
comparison microscopes
-Outline some forensic
applications of the
scanning electron
microscope
Core Activities
-Teacher generated
materials such as:
a)worksheets
b)powerpoints/notes
-online exercises
-Hands on:
Exercise 6: The
Microscope
Assessment
- Test
- Daily Do Now
- Laboratory report
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Forensic Serology
Chapter 8
(5 Blocks)
a
Concept/Content
Essential Questions
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.3 A,D
-What is forensic
- Forensic Serology
serology and how can it - Blood
be used in forensics?
- Bloodstains
-What type of tests are - Heredity
there to characterized
- Semen and other bodily fluids
bloodstains?
-How can understanding Chapter Vocabulary:
heredity and genes assist - allele
in forensics?
- antibody/antigen
-How can different
- chromosome (X/Y)
bodily fluids be tested for - DNA
DNA?
- egg/zygote
- erythrocyte
- gene/genotype
- hemoglobin
- heterozygous/homozygous
- locus
- luminol
- plasma,serum
- sperm
Skills
SWBAT:
-List the A-B-O antigens
and antibodies found in
all four blood types
- List and describe
forensic tests used to
characterize a stain as
blood
- Contrast chromosomes
and genes
- Learn how the Punnett
square is used
- List the tests used to
characterized seminal
stains
-Explain how suspect
blood and semen stains
are properly preserved
-Describe the proper
collection of physical
evidence in a rape
investigation
Core Activities
-Teacher generated
materials such as:
a)worksheets
b)powerpoints/notes
-online exercises
-Hands on:
Exercise 11: Blood
Spatter Evidence
Assessment
- Test
- Daily Do Now
- Laboratory report
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DNA: The
Indispensable
Forensic Science Tool
Chapter 9
(6 Blocks)
Essential Questions
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.3 A,D
-What is DNA?
- How do forensic
scientists connect
suspects to a crime scene
using DNA?
- What is CODIS and
how is it used?
- How can DNA be
collected properly?
Concept/Content
- DNA
- DNA Typing
- PCR
- Mitochondrial DNA
- CODIS
- Collect of DNA samples
Chapter Vocabulary:
-amino acid
-DNA
-chromosome
- PCR
-Electrophoresis
-hybridization
-mitochondria
-proteins
-substrate control
-replication
-restriction enzymes
Skills
Core Activities
Assessment
SWBAT:
-Teacher generated
- Test
-Name the parts of the
materials such as:
- Daily Do Now
DNA molecule
a)worksheets
- Laboratory report
-Contrast DNA strands b)powerpoints/notes
that code for the
production of proteins
-online exercises
with strands that contain
repeating base sequences
-Explain the technology -Hands on:
of PCR and how it
DNA KITS, Virtual Lab
applies to DNA typing electrophoresis
-Contrast the newest
DNA typing techniques.
-Describe the difference
between nuclear and
mitochondrial DNA
-Understand the use of
DNA databases
-List the necessary
procedures for proper
preservation of biological
evidence for lab DNA
analysis
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Crime Scene
Reconstruction:
Bloodstain Pattern
Analysis
Chapter 10
(5 Blocks)
Concept/Content
Essential Questions
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.2 A,E 5.3 A
- What is a bloodstain
-Bloodstain formation/ analysis
pattern and how is it used -impact patterns
to recreate a crime
-spatter types
scene?
-documentation of patterns
- What are the methods Chapter Vocabulary:
for documenting
-angle of impact
bloodstain patterns?
-area of convergence
- Which personnel are
-area of origin
involved in
-arterial spray
reconstruction of the
-back spatter
crime scene?
-cast-off
-crime scene reconstruction
-flow pattern
-forward,high velocity, impact,
medium velocity, satellite, and
low velocity spatter
-Skeletonization
-transfer pattern
-void
Skills
SWBAT:
-Define crime scene
reconstruction
-Discuss the info that can
be gained from
bloodstain pattern
analysis
-Explain how surface
texture, directionality,
and angle of impact
affect the shape of
individual bloodstains
-Calculate the angle of
impact of a bloodstain
-Describe the
classifications of low,
medium, high velocity
spatter
-Discuss the methods to
determine the area of
convergence and area of
origin for impact spatter
patterns.
-Describe the methods
for documenting
bloodstain patterns at a
crime scene
Core Activities
-Teacher generated
materials such as:
a)worksheets
b)powerpoints/notes
-online exercises
-Hands on:
Bloodstain Lab Kit
Assessment
- Test
- Daily Do Now
- Laboratory report
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Standards
Trace Evidence I:
Hairs and Fibers
Chapter 11
(5 Blocks)
Essential Questions
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.3 A
-What trace evidence can
be found at a crime
scene?
- How can proper
preservation of evidence
be followed in collection
of trace evidence?
Concept/Content
Skills
Core Activities
Assessment
-Trace evidence
SWBAT:
-Teacher generated
- Test
-Hair and preservation of hair as - Recognize and
materials such as:
- Daily Do Now
evidence
understand the cuticle, a)worksheets
- Laboratory report
-Fibers and collection and
cortex and medulla areas b)powerpoints/notes
preservation of fibers
of hair
-List the 3 phase of hair -online exercises
Chapter Vocabulary:
growth
-anagen phase
-Appreciate the
-catagen phase
distinction between
-Hands on:
-cortex
animal and human hairs Exercise 7- microscopic
-cuticle
-List hair features that
identification of hairs.
-follicular tag
are useful for
-macromolecule
microscopic comparison
-manufactured fibers
of human hairs
-medulla
-Explain proper
-monomer
collection of forensic hair
-natural fibers
evidence
-nuclear DNA
-Describe and understand
-polymer
the role of DNA typing
-telogen phase
in hair comparisons
-Understand the
difference between
natural and manufactured
fibers
-Describe the proper
collection of fiber
evidence
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Trace Evidence II:
Metals, Paint and
Soils
Chapter 12
(6 Blocks)
Essential Questions
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.2 A,B
- How can knowledge of
chemistry lead to
forensic examination of
metals, paint and soil?
Concept/Content
Skills
Core Activities
- Metal analysis and
SWBAT:
-Teacher generated
preservation
- Describe the usefulness materials such as:
- Paint analysis and preservation of trace elements for
a) worksheets
- Soil analysis and preservation forensic comparison of b) power-points/notes
various types of physical
- Why does a crime scene Chapter Vocabulary:
evidence
- online exercises
need to be preserved
- Alpha ray, beta ray, gamma - Explain how elements
when looking for
ray
can be made radioactive
forensic evidence?
- Atomic mass, atomic number - List the most useful
-Hands on:
- Proton, electron, neutron
examination for
Atomic emission
- Continuous and line spectrum performing a forensic
spectrum lab.
- Radioactivity
comparison of paint
- Density-gradient tube
- Describe how an atom
- Nucleus
absorbs energy
- Mineral
- Describe the proper
- Pyrolysis
collection of and
- Isotope
preservation of forensic
- Excited state
metal, paint and soil
evidence
-List the important
forensic properties of soil
Assessment
- Test
- Daily Do Now
- Laboratory report
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Standards
Fingerprints
Chapter 15
(7 Blocks)
Concept/Content
Essential Questions
5.1 A,B,C,D 5.3 A D
- How is fingerprint
- History of fingerprints
collection used in
- Classification of fingerprints
forensic science?
- AFIS
- Detection of fingerprints
- What is the AFIS and - Preservation of fingerprints
how is it used by
Chapter Vocabulary:
professional forensic
- Anthropometry
scientists?
- Arch, loop, whirl
- Digital imaging
- What are the
- Iodine fuming
advancements in digital - Latent fingerprints
imaging related to
- Ninhydrin
fingerprints?
- Super glue fuming
- Visible print
- Ridge characteristics
Skills
Core Activities
SWBAT:
-Teacher generated
- Know the common
materials such as:
ridge characteristics of a a)worksheets
fingerprint
b)powerpoints/notes
- list the 3 major
fingerprint patterns and -online exercises
their respective
subclasses
- Distinguish visible,
-Hands on:
plastic and latent
Exercise 5. Developing
fingerprints.
latent fingerprints.
- Describe the concept of
an automated fingerprint
identification system
(AFIS)
- List the techniques for
developing latent
fingerprints on porous
and nonporous objects
- Describe the proper
procedures for preserving
a developed latent
fingerprint.
Assessment
- Test
- Daily Do Now
- Laboratory report