Become a forensic scientist! Students work as a team to analyze evidence to determine who stole a valuable object.

• Grades: 4–8
• Capacity: Up to 35 students
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Live via Zoom or Google Meet
• Offered Tuesdays through Fridays at a flexible time based on your schedule
• No special materials required
• Cost: $200

Science and Engineering Practices:

• Asking questions and defining problems
• Planning and carrying out investigations
• Analyzing and interpreting data
• Constructing explanations
• Engaging in argument from evidence
• Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information

Crosscutting Concepts:

• Cause and effect
• Patterns
• Systems and system models

Disciplinary Core Ideas:

ETS2: Links among engineering, technology, science and society

Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1, 3.3, 3.7, 3.10
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7, 4.10
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.7, 5.10

Lab goals

Students will:

• Have an increased awareness of STEM careers.
• Understand the connection between ideas explored and careers that involve forensic science.
• Actively engage in inquiry-based, hands-on science investigation.
• Work collaboratively with peers.
• Communicate using terminology/vocabulary accurately.
• Analyze findings, develop a hypothesis and communicate results of who they infer committed a crime.
• Identify and describe methods of forensic science techniques including fingerprinting, chromatography, analyzing trace evidence and footwear, and powder analysis.