Project+Plan



**Project – Maplebear ** Target group – 8 – 9 years old – grades 3-4 20 days – 4 hours /day

**Introduction to Forensic Science ** ||  **Evaluation Ideas **  || - Assessment of students’ responses to KWL to determine what they know about solving mysteries. - Determine students’ abilities to work in small groups. || - Observation skills - scavenger hunt for a mock crime scene in the classroom set up by the teacher (evidence is "planted" around the room or outside for the kiddies to find) [] [] Great Mouse Detective ||  || Great Mouse Detective ||  || **Being a good witness ** ||  **Evaluation Ideas **  || Being a good witness = Witness to a crime <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Great Mouse Detective ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Great Mouse Detective ||  || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- Interpretations from data <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">[] <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">[] <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">[] <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Making predictions - Magic Egg Predictor (p. 88 Food Works) ||  || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Types of evidence ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Evaluation Ideas **  || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Escape Routes - Draft detector (p. 79 Science Works) ||  || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Fingerprinting - Whodunit (p.48 Science Works) ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Fiber analysis ||  || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Identification of substances <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Determining pH - Kitchen Magic (p.88 Food Works); Cabbage indicator (p.190 Chemistry for every kid); Cabbage Paper (p. 192 Chemistry for every kid); Tumeric paper (p. 204 Chemistry for every kid) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Paper chromotography - Rainbow effect (p. 154 Chemistry for every kid) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Detecting iron - Drinkable iron (p. 112 Chemistry for every kid) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Starch ID/testing for starch (p. 104, 106 Chemistry for every kid) ||  || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Code - Invisible Ink (p.75 Science Works); Magic writing (p. 110 Chemistry for every kid) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Aging Paper (p. 86 Chemistry for every kid) ||  || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Solving Crime – Critical Thinking and Problem Solving ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Evaluation Ideas **  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Case study – act out the case ||  || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Dead animal mystery - The case of the missing teeth (p. 18 Food works); <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (interactive webgame) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Scenarios - dead, lost, stolen, borrowed, accident (who's responsible) ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Police - [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Task – create a book on how to solve mysteries <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Each student contributes at least one page to the book. ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Each student contributes at least one page to the book. ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Each student contributes at least one page to the book. ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week 1 ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Lesson plan **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Introduction: “Who am I?”; KWL; What is a scientist; Great Mouse Detective; Case study || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- Observation of students to determine their language level and ability to communicate in English.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">What is forensic science? – Recognize the role that science plays in criminal investigations – forensic scientists, Investigator journal, Great Mouse Detective; ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Scientific Inquiry and Skills (Types of observations – qualitative and quantitative) – description of another person, drawing a room, measurements; Great Mouse Detective ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Scientific Inquiry and Skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 5 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Documenting the crime scene - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Memory - hidden objects
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week 2 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Lesson plan **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Scientific Inquiry and Skills (Observation skills ) – questions and clues; what kinds of questions to ask
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Scientific Inquiry and Skills (Observation and Inference – mystery footprints)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Interpretation of a crime scene – points of view
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Create a crime scene – write what you saw as a witness ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 5 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Act out the crime scene – write a play, make puppets and act out the play. Use Photostory to create and explain the crime scene ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week 3 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Lesson plan **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Using the Your Senses in Forensic Science - smell, touch
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Using the Your Senses in Forensic Science – hearing, Fingerprinting, measuring footprints, teeth impressions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Mystery substances
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Mystery substances
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 5 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Handwriting, secret messages and ink chromatography
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Week 4 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Lesson plan **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Logical problem solving and the scientific method –
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">More case studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Careers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Task – create a book on how to solve mysteries
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Day 5 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Task – create a book on how to solve mysteries